INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hugging Face has raised a $15 million funding round led by Lux Capital
The company first built a mobile app that let you chat with an artificial BFF, a sort of chatbot for bored teenagers
More recently, the startup released an open-source library for natural language processing applications
And that library has been massively successful.A.Capital, Betaworks, Richard Socher, Greg Brockman, Kevin Durant and others are also
support.With the app, you could generate a digital friend and text back and forth with your companion
turns out that the technology behind that chatbot app is solid
The GitHub project has amassed 19,000 stars, proving that the open-source community thinks this is a useful brick to build upon
Researchers at Google, Microsoft and Facebook have been playing around with it.Some companies even use it in production, such as challenger
bank Monzo for its customer support chatbot and Microsoft Bing
You can leverage Transformers for text classification, information extraction, summarization, text generation and conversational artificial