All right. How are you guys doing? That is actually very energetic for a developer crowd. So look, I'm really happy that you could be here with us for the last two days and especially through this session. It turns out that this is the last official session of the conference. There's more networking and other things afterwards. And when we were talking about who should we invite for a fireside chat, I couldn't think of a better person than my friend Clem as CEO of Hugging Face, because one of the things, and I'm going to let Clem tell you a little bit about Hugging Face and their journey, but one of the things that we share sort of at the foundation is really the importance of developers and openness. And I can say, Clem, you were here at Advancing AI. We were just talking, I don't know, it must have been three years ago, and there's slightly more people here today. What do you think?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We started Hugging Face actually 10 years ago. We weren't even calling it AI at the time, and now obviously it's like the hottest topic that everyone is talking about.
Yeah, absolutely. So look, Clem and I are just going to have a dialogue, and if there's anything that we don't cover that you'd like us to cover, please raise your hand at some point. So Clem, maybe just to start, again, thank you for being here with us. Thank you for the partnership. We're super excited about what we're doing together. But just tell us a little bit about, you know, Hugging Face, what you're seeing, what are the trends that you're seeing amongst developers and AI as you've been watching this journey.
Yeah, it's been amazing to see on Hugging Face kind of like the power and the development of open models, open datasets of collaboration in AI. Historically, we've been seeing a lot of text models, right, reasoning models. Now we're seeing so much activity in videos, in image, in biology, chemistry, in robotics. It's very exciting. I think it shows that really AI is starting to transform all domains of our worlds, and we're just at the beginning of it.
Yeah, and I think we were saying, what, is it three million models or more that we have on Hugging Face?
Yeah, it's three million public models, it's one million public datasets on the platform, and almost as many private ones. It's one new repository on Hugging Face every seven seconds now, so the activity is quite crazy. Just out of curiosity in the room, how many of you are active on Hugging Face? I think you have some fans here in the audience.
And we've talked a lot today, Clem, about agentic AI. That's been a lot of the theme for this conference. When you think about sort of agentic AI and how it's going to proceed over the next few years, talk about openness, and why is openness important in this world?
Well, I think we're starting to see, obviously it's been in the news for the past few days, that for autonomy to work, you have to have transparency, control, and understanding. I think we're seeing all that autonomy without this is risky, is dangerous, is creating problems. So I think even more than for LLMs and for chatbots, for agents you need open models, you need ways for companies to own their agents themselves, to understand how they work, how they're performing. You can't really outsource your agents to a black box. So all of that I think shows the importance of openness for agents.
And when you think about the progress over agentic AI over the last, I say six months, because I think over the last six months there's been just tremendous acceleration. What are the most interesting applications to you? What have you seen in the Hugging Face community?
Well, I'm super excited about robotics these days, because it gives you both a new perception of the world to get into the physical world. And so I think you can really improve the reasoning capabilities of system by having kind of like real-world data sets. And also the potential of what they can do is much greater and unlocks new things. I was telling you I just got two baby girls, right? And the idea of having AI interact with my girls through kind of like robots is quite exciting, and obviously much more exciting than them doing that by looking at the screen.
So Clem, I think you told me your girls are six months, is that right? Have they been interacting with robots?
Yes, yes. So we have this little robot called Richie Mini.
Yeah, Richie Mini. We started it almost as an experiment, and weirdly people liked it. We shipped over 10,000 of them all over the world now. And they've been kind of like a little bit visually interacting with Richie Mini.
