Thomas Wolf is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, one of the most important companies in open-source AI.

Hugging Face has become the central platform for AI builders, researchers, and companies working with machine learning models, datasets, and open-source tools.

In this episode, Thomas explains how Hugging Face started as a game company, why the team pivoted into open-source AI, and how a weekend project around Google’s BERT model became one of the first major signals that Hugging Face could become much bigger.

He also shares why open-source AI matters, how Hugging Face thinks about robotics, and why the future of AI may depend on openness, affordability, privacy, and giving builders access to powerful tools.

Thomas is a physicist, lawyer, PhD, and AI founder. Before building Hugging Face, he ...