Everything about this company feels like it's run by a bunch of immature 20-somethings, right down to the name.

Yeah, we need to go back to names like International Business Machines, fuck this immature "Google" or "Yahoo!" nonsense. Hell, Palantir is named after something in a book for children!

Give me something reasonable like Global Information and Retrieval Systems Inc or Worldwide Computational Services Holdings.

As opposed to the frontier model company that, after discovering that their highly persistent model under test just breached the only thing between it and the open Internet, shrugged and said- let's restart it and keep going!

If anyone looks like the adult in the room after that incident, it's Hugging Face.

That might be true, but nothing else has been as effective at accelerating model development and research sharing.

In earlier circles they were known as the "pytorch-pretrained-bert" guys, still under the huggingface company name. IIRC it was a health chatbot type startup.

the name is a leftover from their original business - a chatbot. seems very appropriate to me. then they figured something called BERT exists, and pivoted, the name stayed.

perhaps less ridiculous than NVidia which started with video and is very close in Levenshtein distance to NVidAI but, alas, decided to stay as it is :D

Go look up the history of the company. It started as a chat bot for kids back in like 2016 .. hence the name..and then pivoted..

Is kinda a creepy name for a chatbot for kids tho

What's immature about this exactly?

I bet you're fun to hang around with.

Have you never been to silicon valley?