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☆ Hugging Face CEO says he's focused on building a 'sustainable model' for the $4.5 billion open-source-AI startup
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-28 | by ( Ashley Stewart | Monica Melton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It's an open-source platform where scientists, researchers, and engineers build, train, and deploy AI models. With his company, Delangue wants to follow in the footsteps of companies such as Red Hat by making open-source AI a profitable endeavor. "If we don't support openness, open science, and open-source AI, just a few companies will be able to do it," Delangue told Business Insider. The episode has made open-source models look more attractive because they don't rely on a single company that could suddenly lose all its employees. What do you see your customers using Hugging Face's AI models for most?

Persons: Clément Delangue, Delangue, OpenAI, Sam Altman, —, Giada, Pistilli, We're, autocomplete, We've, we've, that's Organizations: Service, Business, Investors, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, IBM, BI, Microsoft Locations: Amazon

☆ Some OpenAI employees are still feeling uneasy and looking for other jobs despite Sam Altman's return, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman is back in charge of OpenAI but some employees are still feeling nervous, per Semafor. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementOpenAI's CEO Sam Altman may be back in charge but some employees are still feeling uneasy. According to one of the outlet's sources, rival AI company Cohere has received several inquiries from OpenAI employees in recent days. AdvertisementAI companies Hugging Face and Cohere told CNBC they've had more customer inquiries following Altman's ousting and reinstatement as CEO.

Persons: Sam Altman, —, Semafor, Altman, We've, Sam, Cohere, Marc Benioff, Salesforce's Einstein, CNBC they've, Clément Delangue, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Salesforce's, CNBC Locations: OpenAI

☆ Sam Altman chaos helped OpenAI rivals, says Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI rivals say Sam Altman's ousting and reinstatement as CEO has created opportunities. Hugging Face and Cohere say they've had more customer inquiries following the chaos. Josh Gartner of Cohere told CNBC that clients want "reliable business solutions, not soap operas." AdvertisementOpenAI's rivals say the chaos of ousting Sam Altman as CEO only for him to return days later has helped them attract more interest from potential customers. "I think a lot of companies, organizations now are kind of wondering about the risk about outsourcing their AI to just one AI provider," Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC.

Persons: Sam Altman's, they've, Josh Gartner, Cohere, —, Sam Altman, Altman, it's, Clément Delangue, Aidan Gomez, Martin Kon, Google's Anthropic, That's Organizations: CNBC, Service, Nvidia, Salesforce, Oracle Locations: Toronto, OpenAI

☆ OpenAI rival Hugging Face says it's seeing more client interest after Sam Altman fiasco
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue (R) departs the closed-door "AI Insight Forum" outside the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face says it's seeing increased interest from potential customers following the chaos at rival OpenAI. "I think a lot of companies, organizations now are kind of wondering about the risk about outsourcing their AI to just one AI provider," Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said Tuesday on a call with reporters. Multiple companies told CNBC they'd considered switching from OpenAI to competitors' services as the confusion swelled inside the company. OpenAI has a unique structure in that the parent entity is a nonprofit, with a so-called capped-profit company underneath that umbrella.

Persons: Clement Delangue, Clément Delangue, Sam Altman, Josh Gartner, Gartner, CNBC they'd, Aidan Gomez, Martin Kon, OpenAI, Altman, Cohere, it's, Google's Bard, OpenAI's ChatGPT Organizations: Russell Senate, Companies, CNBC, Google, Nvidia, Salesforce, AMD, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Anthropic, Google's Locations: Russell, Washington ,, Toronto, OpenAI, New York, China

☆ It's never been this easy to build a $1 billion AI company
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

You don't have to be Sam Altman to build a $1 billion AI company. Kai-Fu Lee's new startup and Mistral AI have shown that AI companies can scale by going open source. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe opportunity to build a $1 billion AI business has never seemed this straightforward for entrepreneurs aspiring to be the next Sam Altman. In response, Lee credited Hugging Face as the reason his company was able to take its AI mode public "rapidly, credibly, and impactfully." Developers wanting to build AI businesses at scale will want open source to thrive.

Persons: Sam Altman, Kai, Fu, OpenAI's, —, he's, Fu Lee, It's, Lee, Abu, Yann LeCun Organizations: Mistral, Service, Microsoft, Bloomberg Locations: Paris, OpenAI

☆ Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because 'Zuck has balls,' a former top Facebook engineer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta released Llama 2 as a mostly open-source AI model in July. Replit CEO Amjad Masad said Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk making the model open-source. AdvertisementAdvertisementSince Meta released Llama 2 as a (mostly) open-source project in July, the AI model has become a huge hit. The AI community has embraced the opportunity, giving Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg his next potentially huge platform. There's the latest Falcon open-source AI model.

Persons: Meta, Amjad Masad, Mark Zuckerberg, —, Zuckerberg, Eric Newcomer, Clem Delangue, Eric Newcomer Masad, Masad, he's, Zuck, didn't Organizations: Service, Google, Facebook, Meta, United Arab Emirates

☆ Cerebral Valley, the AI conference that spawned a $1.3 billion deal, is coming back to San Francisco this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Cerebral Valley, an AI conference run by Eric Newcomer's eponymous publication, just announced its second gathering of 2023. CVAI2 (Cerebral Valley AI Summit version 2.0) will take place on November 15 at the SFJAZZ Center in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. The neighborhood is nicknamed Cerebral Valley these days, due to the plethora of AI startups that have sprouted there. Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, and Naveen Rao, CEO of MosaicML, met for the first time at the initial Cerebral Valley AI Summit. That's the biggest generative AI startup deal so far, by my counting.

Persons: Vinod Khosla, Reid Hoffman, Adam D'Angelo, Eric Newcomer's, Mustafa Suleyman, Ali Ghodsi, Kanjun Qiu, Chris Lattner, May Habib, Naveen Rao, Jason Warner, Max Child, James Wilsterman, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Emad, Daniela Amodei, Cristobal Valenzuela, Shane Orlick, MosaicML, it's Organizations: SFJAZZ, Service, Industry Locations: Hayes Valley, San Francisco, Wall, Silicon, Jasper

☆ Chuck Schumer hosts tech companies Google, Meta, Microsoft, and X over AI regulations including Chat GPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Among those attending the in-person event will be the CEOs of Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir and X, the company formerly known as Twitter. But crucially, the event could also shed light on the political feasibility of a broad, sweeping AI law, setting expectations for what Congress may achieve. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna will also seek to “demystify” a widely held impression that AI development is done only by a handful of companies like OpenAI or Google, Padilla said. Some authors have sued OpenAI over those claims, while others have asked in an open letter to be paid by AI companies. New AI legislation could also serve as a potential backstop to voluntary commitments that some AI companies made to the Biden administration earlier this year to ensure their AI models undergo outside testing before they are released to the public.

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☆ Washington crowned a bunch of rich dudes the most important people in AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hosting sessions to help lawmakers understand and shape future rules on AI. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeredith Whittaker, president of messaging app Signal and former director of AI think tank the AI Now Institute, posted on X: "This is the room you pull together when your staffers want pictures with tech industry AI celebrities. It's not the room you'd assemble when you want to better understand what AI is, how (and for whom) it functions, and what to do about it." This is the room you pull together when your staffers want pictures with tech industry AI celebrities. It's not the room you'd assemble when you want to better understand what AI is, how (and for whom) it functions, and what to do about it.

Persons: Sen, Chuck Schumer, Axios, Mark Zuckerberg —, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Per, Maria Curi, Rumman Chowdhury, Deborah Raji, Tristan Harris, b9mJhW39NW — Maria Cristina Curi, OpenAI, Alex Karp, Jack Clark, Clement Delangue, Meredith Whittaker, It's, UM1EhFNb1H — Meredith Whittaker, Face's Delangue Organizations: Morning, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Center of Humane, Meta, Nvidia Locations: Washington

☆ Google, Amazon, Nvidia and other tech giants invest in AI startup Hugging Face, sending its valuation to $4.5 billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Hugging Face, an AI firm based in New York, has raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation from some of technology's biggest companies. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said the funds are to be focused on hiring talent to be competitive in the artificial intelligence space. He hopes that AI developers will rely on Hugging Face on a daily basis to get their work done. And if all of them use Hugging Face all day, every day, we'll obviously be in a good position," he said. Hugging Face hosts 500,000 different AI models, 250,000 data sets, and has 10,000 paying customers, the company said.

Persons: Clement Delangue, OpenAI, BLOOM, Delangue Organizations: Google, Nvidia, Salesforce, AMD, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, CNBC, IDEFICS Locations: New York

☆ AI startup Hugging Face valued at $4.5 bln in latest round of funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 24 (Reuters) - AI startup Hugging Face said on Thursday it was valued at $4.5 billion in a $235-million funding round backed by technology heavyweights, including Salesforce (CRM.N), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Nvidia (NVDA.O). The latest round of funding outlines the rapidly growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), which has been hailed by many as the next frontier of technology and has attracted some of the biggest investors in Silicon Valley. Following the launch of OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT, several AI startups like Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) Inflection AI and Google-backed Runway have raised funds. Intel (INTC.O), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O), IBM (IBM.N), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Ashton Kutcher-backed venture capital firm Sound Ventures also participated in Hugging Face's latest funding round. "In five years, every tech company will be an AI company," Delangue added.

Persons: Ashton Kutcher, Face's, Clément Delangue, Delangue, Shubhendu Satish Deshmukh, Niket, Shweta Agarwal Organizations: Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, Devices, Qualcomm, IBM, Sound Ventures, Thomson Locations: Silicon Valley, Bengaluru

Powering AI Dungeon's text-generation software was the GPT language technology offered by the Microsoft -backed AI research lab OpenAI. The high cost of training and "inference" — actually running — large language models is a structural cost that differs from previous computing booms. Many entrepreneurs see risks in relying on potentially subsidized AI models that they don't control and merely pay for on a per-use basis. Companies making the foundation models, semiconductor makers, and startups all see business opportunities in reducing the price of running AI software. "Latitude is going to continue to evaluate all AI models to be sure we have the best game out there."

☆ Amazon Web Services pairs with Hugging Face to target AI developers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Feb 21 (Reuters) - Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), on Tuesday said it is collaborating with startup Hugging Face, a software development hub, to make it easier to carry out artificial intelligence work (AI) in Amazon's cloud. While new generative AI services like chat-based search engines from Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) have captured the public's imagination, tech companies such as AWS are also vying behind the scenes to supply the tools and services that software developers will need to weave similar technology into their own products. On Tuesday, AWS said it will work with Hugging Face, a New York-based company that has become a central place online where AI developers share open-source code and models. "For this product collaboration, we're dedicating significant engineering resources to build our shared products," Delangue told Reuters in interview. Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco Editing by Mark PotterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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