I can't believe the level of productivity this Hugging face team has.
They seemed to have found the ideal balance of software engineering capability and Neural network knowledge, in a team of highly effective and efficient employees.
Idk what their monetization plan is as a startup, but it is 100% undervalued at 20 million, and that is just the quality of that team. Now, if only I can figure out how to put a few thousand $ in a series-A startup as just some guy.
I see them as an acqui-hire target. Especially form Facebook since they are so geographically close to FAIR labs in NY or Google and get integrated into Google AI like Deep Mind did. (esp. since google uses a ton of Transformers any ways)
I can't think of many small teams that can be acquired and can build a company's ML infrastructure as fast as this team.
If they have the money for it, OCI and Azure may also be keeping a look out for them.
They seemed to have found the ideal balance of software engineering capability and Neural network knowledge, in a team of highly effective and efficient employees.
Idk what their monetization plan is as a startup, but it is 100% undervalued at 20 million, and that is just the quality of that team. Now, if only I can figure out how to put a few thousand $ in a series-A startup as just some guy.