I played a somewhat unusual role in this whole story. I was the guy who acquired in the original Papers with Code and managed them after they joined Facebook/Meta.

It was super sad to see FB/M abandon the original mission of what PwC was building towards and let the original community resource rot. During the good times, we always talked about how PwC related to HF. So, I think there is a sort poetry to PwC winding up as part of HF, where they probably always belonged. No company is perfect, but HF has been a better than average steward of open source and community resources.

For the younger folks on this thread, you probably have no real feel for just how frustratingly inefficient AI/ML research used to be before people like Robert and Ross of PwC came along to start to bring structure, sanity, and reproducibility to the information needed to work of this kind. And of course, Clem, Julien, and Thomas of HF kicked off an even bigger effort to tame the previously scattered workflow of open AI research into some sort of sane stack.

It's clear that, in 2026, what PwC could be is something much more evolved than what we were able to do back in the day. LLMs + PwC is a huge design space. I hope nielz_r and friends at HF are able to make something truly useful for the community. AI research has both gotten way easier and much harder. e.g. We have a Fable, but Anthro won't let us use it forward our science. Community resources for research are still very much needed.

Best of luck Son of PwC. May you thrive.

PricewaterhouseCoopers? Hydrofluoric acid?