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Thomas Wolf

1 entry · 14 April 2025

Thomas Wolf is a co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, the US-French company whose platform hosts open machine-learning models and datasets. Trained in physics with a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, he helped create Hugging Face's widely used Transformers library and convened the BigScience open research collaboration.

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  • Open weights & ecosystem 1
  • Money & business 1

  1. Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics

    The French maker of the open-source Reachy humanoid, priced at $70,000, becomes Hugging Face's fifth acquisition and its first outside software.

    Open weights & ecosystem · Money & business