Hugging Face and the Illusion of Infrastructure

Hugging Face is a gallery of dead models. To survive, it must become a factory

Hugging Face is a gallery of dead models. To survive, it must become a factory.

Hugging Face bills itself as the GitHub of machine learning. That comparison flatters both parties: GitHub brings structure to the chaos of open-source code, and Hugging Face aspires to do the same for the disjointed zoo of language models, datasets, and machine learning pipe…