Thomas Wolf is the cofounder and chief science officer of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which provides access to thousands of pretrained AI models that can be downloaded and run locally. With over 10 million users, getting started on the site can be a daunting task. Thomas explains how the company aims to improve its accessibility through documentati ... Show More
Sep 15
AI Goes Grocery Shopping: Instacart’s David McIntosh
With the acquisition of the Caper cart, a technology-enabled shopping cart, grocery-delivery company Instacart began bridging the gap between online and in-person shopping. On today’s episode, David McIntosh, the company’s former chief connected stores officer, joins host Sam Ran ... Show More
27m 16s
Jun 22
AI Upskilling at Scale: Bank of America’s Bernard Hampton
Today’s episode, the final one of Season 13, explores how Bank of America is preparing a massive global workforce for an AI future through upskilling and reskilling. Bernard Hampton, head of the financial institution’s Academy, explains how the learning and development organizati ... Show More
29m 39s
Oct 2024
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
We sit down with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue to understand the current state of the open source AI ecosystem. Hugging Face is the leading platform to host and collaborate on AI models, datasets, and applications. They also have a compute offering for AI builders to train their ... Show More
1h 6m
May 2025
Hugging Face Explained: The AI Toolkit Everyone’s Talking About
In this episode we cover Hugging Face—what it is, why it matters, and how it's powering some of the biggest AI models today. We’ll break down their open-source tools, transformers library, and how developers and companies are using them to build the future of AI.“AI Hustle” PODCA ... Show More
12m 11s
Jul 2024
#229 Inside Meta's Biggest and Best Open-Source AI Model Yet with Thomas Scialom, Co-Creator of Llama3
Meta has been at the absolute edge of the open-source AI ecosystem, and with the recent release of Llama 3.1, they have officially created the largest open-source model to date. So, what's the secret behind the performance gains of Llama 3.1? What will the future of open-source A ... Show More
39m 23s
Jan 2025
ReThinking with Adam Grant: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity
Sam Altman is the CEO and cofounder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. He and Adam discuss AI's advances in creativity and empathy, its ethical challenges, and the role of human oversight. Sam and Adam also discuss strategies for adapting to a changing world and their hopes f ... Show More
40m 15s
Oct 2025
(BNS) Hugging Face Founder Clément Delangue
Clem discusses his journey from early computing experiences to founding Hugging Face, emphasizing the importance of community, collaboration, and open-source technology in the AI landscape. He reflects on the evolution of technology, the significance of user feedback, and the nee ... Show More
59m 19s
Sep 2023
AI Revolution: Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Noam Shazeer, Character.ai CEO and cofounder, talks to a16z's Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI's first use...[0:59] Real Noam vs. AI Noam[6:14] Next unlocks[8:11] First use case for AGI[ ... Show More
18m 35s
