HF's CEO here! yes hopefully if we can help power good AI democratization thanks to open science and open source, we'd be happy. Do you think that's useful?
Is the huggingface website/hub API itself open-source? That would be a good place to start for people who are interested but don't know a lot about ML. Plus it's some nice goodwill gesture that helps the "brand" in the circles it's talked about.
it's not open-source as it's how we make money to fund all the rest. The huggingchat interface is fully open-source though: https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui
Thank you for the answer, how successful at converting casual users into paying members?
One of the biggest problems Tech companies face is sustainable scaling, I hope you can scale at a manner that allows you to stay relevant without teetering at the cliff's edge.