Hello, and welcome to Eye on AI. Yesterday, I had the privilege of moderating a fireside chat with Thomas Wolf, the cofounder and chief scientific officer at Hugging Face, at the CogX Global ...

But Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face’s co-founder and chief science officer, has a more measured take. In an essay published to X on Thursday, Wolf said that he feared AI becoming “yes-men on servers ...

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf challenges Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "compressed 21st century" vision, arguing AI systems are building "yes-men on servers" rather than the revolutionary ...

Thomas Wolf said AI excels at following instructions but struggles to create new knowledge. AI needs to question its training data and take counterintuitive approaches, the Hugging Face exec wrote ...

Interestingly, Wolf also told me Hugging Face is bucking a trend among AI companies: It's cashflow positive. (The company makes money on consulting projects and by selling tools for enterprise ...

Hugging Face, of course, is the world’s leading repository for open-source AI models—the GitHub of AI, if you will. Founded in 2016 (in New York, as Wolf reminded me on stage when I ...