MACHINE AGE CARTOON

FROM PATENT LAW TO OPEN ROBOTS

By Zimbo · October 5, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel strip: Thomas Wolf stamps PATENTED on machine drawings; his equations pull him into ML; three founders start Hugging Face as a chatbot; he opens the PROPRIETARY MODEL crate, Transformers pour out; BLOOM 176B built in public; 2025 kicker: HE OPENED THE MODELS. NOW HE'S OPENING THE ROBOTS.
Thomas Wolf: the physics PhD turned patent attorney who co-founded Hugging Face, open-sourced the Transformers library, organized BigScience's BLOOM, and now is opening the robots too - six panels from patents to the model zoo.Zimbo for AI News Page
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