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Linas Beliūnas
Sep 2026 • linkedin
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All of Hugging Face’s founders - three French friends who once built a teen chatbot - are now multi-billionaires after Nvidia’s 3 billion acquisition 😳 Their story is one of the most fascinating in tech: → 2016: Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf launch a sassy AI “friend” for teenagers, named after the 🤗 emoji → The app peaks, then stalls. The NLP tools they built to power it are better than the product. → 2018: Wolf spends a weekend wrapping Google’s BERT in PyTorch. Researchers go crazy for i…
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