Clement Delangue Cartoon: THE FREE BAZAAR

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Delangue life strip: 2016 teen chatbot in NYC; 2018 frees BERT a week after Google; 2022 $100M Series C at $2B; 2023 AWS Trainium deal; Congress testimony then $235M at $4.5B; 2026 Nvidia signs a $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face — EVERYTHING'S FREE. EXCEPT THE STORE. — CLÉMENT DELANGUE: three French geeks, a teen chatbot, the 🤗 emoji — then open-source BERT in a week, $2B, $4.5B, a Congress sermon, and a signed $12.9B Nvidia deal for the whole bazaar. EVERYTHING'S FREE. EXCEPT THE STORE.Zimbo for AI News Page

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