Iโve been overwhelmed and humbled by the fact that 99% of the reactions to our intent to join forces have been positive. โค๏ธ
Prominent tech figures, including some you could see as having a competitive relationship with NVIDIA, have been vocally supportive:
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@satyanadella: โthis ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and growโ
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@sundarpichai: โthis will strengthen the open model ecosystem!โ
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@miramurati: โA great home for Hugging Face to continue expanding access to open models and the tools that let people build with them.โ
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@alighodsi: โThis will be great for the industry and open source.โ
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@AravSrinivas: โabsolutely necessary for AI to remain accessible and useful to the public.โ He added that he was glad NVIDIA was supporting Hugging Face and the open-source community.
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@MichaelDell: โa big win for the whole ecosystem.โ
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@levie: โAnother huge moment for open weights AI.โ
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@adcock_brett: โThis is good for everyone building and open source.โ
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@elonmusk: โCongrats!โ
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@osanseviero: โThe impact of HF in the AI ecosystem has been massiveโ
Even more importantly, the community has been leaning into the announcement.
Now weโll get to demonstrate through our actions in the coming months/years that we will keep up the good work ๐ฅ
This is a chance to make open-source AI so much bigger.