“We didn’t do any marketing. We just posted a video on Twitter.”
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“We didn’t do any marketing. We just posted a video on Twitter.” Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf joins the show to talk about Microduck, his company’s $399 robot duck “side project” that pre-sold 16,000+ units, and how the walking, quacking, roller-skating automaton became a viral sensation, and one of the best-selling consumer robots of all time. Then we’re digging into how Hugging Face actually makes money, and Thom’s take on the OpenAI breach and why people worried about cybersecurity should focus more on defense than offense. Plus CA Gov. Gavin Newsom wants an AI kill switch, why purp
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