From a Teen Chatbot to the “GitHub of AI” Few startups pivot as dramatically as Hugging Face did. Founded in 2016 in Brooklyn by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, the company’s original product was a chatbot app aimed at teenagers — its quirky name borrowed from the 🤗 emoji. That consumer app barely … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Hugging Face, the Teen Chatbot That Became AI’s Most Valuable Open-Source Platform