16 points
The company was named after the U+1F917 🤗 HUGGING FACE emoji.
HF is more of a platform for publishing this sort of thing, as well as the neural networks themselves and a specialized cloud service to train and deploy them, I think. They are not primarily a tool vendor, and they were around well before the LLM hype cycle.
17 points
to be honest, they give me a lot of mtgox vibes:
- extremely stupid name
- technically predates the worst excesses of the AI bubble
- very eager to enable the worst excesses of the AI bubble
8 points
13 points