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Re:Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder by philipov on Sunday May 19, 2024 @12:11AM (#40404209)
I've always wondered if Hugging Face is meant to evoke the feeling of being attacked by a Facehugger.
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Re:Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder by Der_Einzige on Sunday May 19, 2024 @01:35AM (#40404497)
It's meant to evoke the feeling of being in therapy. It started as an attempt to be an AI therapy company, and they pivoted to "github for AI" around 2019.
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Re:Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder by Mkengine on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:35AM (#40405325)
Apparently, the name goes back to the unicode emoji for a hug ():

https://qz.com/hugging-face-microsoft-artificial-intelligenc...

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