#20: The Past, Present and Future of Hugging Face | Thomas Wolf, Co-Founder @HuggingFace | Leading with Data Ep 20

In this episode of Leading With Data, we interact with Thomas Wolf, Co-founder of Hugging Face 🤗 Thomas Wolf is the co-founder of Hugging Face. He has been leading the open-source, educational and research efforts. Thomas led the team which created the famous Transformers library and then was part of BLOOM Large Multilingual Language Model. Watch as he delves into: 👉 His diverse background, a PhD in Physics, a degree in law, and then finally working in the AI field! 👉 Initial days of Hugging Face where they intended to create an AI companion 👉 Their pivot to releasing their open-source libraries underscoring support for open-source 👉 How developing the GPT and the BERT libraries eventually led to the creation of the famous Transformers library 👉 Why the creation of BLOOM Multilingual LLM and other libraries were part of a plan to enable AI for everyone 👉 The future - better open-source LLMs, datasets for LLMs, Mabma architecture, and more 👉 His interesting take on the development of the video generation field 👉 The future of Hugging Face!🤗 -------------------------------- Important Links 🔥 -------------------------------- ✅ Watch & discuss on AV's Community Platform: https://bit.ly/48LDsuu ✅ Listen on the go across leading podcast platforms: 1️⃣ Spotify 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2av72fpn 2️⃣ Apple Podcasts 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/bdcmzcae 3️⃣ Google Podcasts 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mhe8977d