“Hugging Face, a fast-growing New York-based startup that enjoyed a $2 billion valuation last year, has become a hub for open-source code and models and emerged as a leading voice in the open-source AI community.”
Two weeks earlier, senators wrote to Mark Zuckerberg about the LLaMA leak and its potential for spam, fraud and malware. Clement Delangue answered with a flag, telling the House Science Committee that without PyTorch and transformers the U.S. would not lead in AI. Hugging Face hosts the open models. Every open model Congress leaves alone is inventory on his platform.