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PEnns The name Hugging Face makes no sense. But…… I am almost certain the company founders are Aliens movie fans and wanted to name it Face-Hugger but were afraid of lawsuits. Would have been even cooler if they were to name it Xenomorph! With that name it would have cost Nvidia a lot more….😊 Reply
acadia11 Is that how they came up with the name, the face huggers , never put 2 and 3 together. I just imagined a smiley hugging a face or something. Who’s got the sociopathic tendencies ….here? Reply
Bigshrimp PEnns said: The name Hugging Face makes no sense. But…… I am almost certain the company founders are Aliens movie fans and wanted to name it Face-Hugger but were afraid of lawsuits. Would have been even cooler if they were to name it Xenomorph! With that name it would have cost Nvidia! a lot more….😊 Give it a little time in the oven and I am sure something new and alien will come out of it. Now they just need to change their name to Weyland-Yutani to complete the transition… Reply
Persister Over 99% of techies are unaware that HF was created and intended as a chatbot for teens. Thus the name and emo. "The technology underpinning the original product—particularly tools for natural-language processing—attracted much more interest from developers than the consumer app itself. A focus of the business became its Hugging Face Hub, which allows developers to upload and download AI models and AI data sets in much the same way software developers use GitHub to share code." Per Wall Street Journal. Reply
Tanakoi PEnns said: The name Hugging Face makes no sense. But…… I am almost certain the company founders are Aliens movie fans and wanted to name it Face-Hugger but were afraid of lawsuits. Actually, according to interviews with company co-founder Florent Daudens, they took the name from the hugging-face emoji. As @Persister has already noted, the original intent was to market to teens. Reply
Samlebon2306 PEnns said: The name Hugging Face makes no sense. But…… I am almost certain the company founders are Aliens movie fans and wanted to name it Face-Hugger but were afraid of lawsuits. Would have been even cooler if they were to name it Xenomorph! With that name it would have cost Nvidia a lot more….😊 True, but after Nvidia bought it, the name’s closer to Chugging Face — just gulping compute and cash. Reply
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