Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA E2339

This Week in Startups by Jason Calacanis

Sep 18, 202693:39Technology

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Superhuman:⁠ Paypal:⁠ Odoo:⁠ Plaud:⁠ Harmonic:⁠ Today’s show: Hugging Face built a $399 open-source robot duck as a side quest, and sold 16,000 units off a single tweet. Co-foun...

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