Eliott Coyac

Backend Hub + Agents @HuggingFace (joined 2022)
❤️ OSS, open models, self-hosting

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

Jensen spent 10 min of his keynote asking microducks to sit, then explained Nvidia's roadmap to them 🥹

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Passkeys on HF!
https://t.co/xINYg897jR

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

@victormustar Gotta bring them to the SF meetup!

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Kinda nuts how cheap AI providers are becoming

Can't wait for the same for local AI

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

on the scale of cosmic history, the declining price of intelligence might be one of the most profound things happening

both ends of the universe’s timeline are empty of knowledge:
- the big bang: low entropy, no complex structure
- heat death: maximum entropy, no usable energy gradients

everything we build happens on the slope between them

but the universe is generally a poor converter of its free energy into anything constructive. most of its free energy just radiates away as heat or collapses into black holes

life, brains and now AI models are structures that sit in the entropy flow and divert a portion of it through constructive paths, building and maintaining low-entropy structures (machines, cells, crystals, memories)

increasingly cheaper intelligence diverts increasingly more of that gradient flow through knowledge-building structures, complex, self-maintaining, predictive structures, filling the window in which understanding exists

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

You can now search filenames in Hugging Face datasets

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

https://t.co/dgh1zJo1QH

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

One last thing from me about the HF<>OpenAI "rogue agent" incident.

From what we now know it seems @huggingface was the first organization to simultaneously satisfy the following factors:

1/ awareness of the attack
2/ awareness that the attack was Agent-based
3/ ability to remediate the attack
4/ willingness to publicly disclose it

A few other platforms or systems missed one or more of those points in the earlier months.

As usual, both awareness and transparency make everyone safer in the long run 🙏

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

The value of the $200 OpenAI subscription is insane

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

15% event loop utilization reduction today at Hugging Face!

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Fable 5.1:

Sorry — I read "no stop" as "no, don't stop" and kept going. I should have paused and asked.

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Had a try with Astra, 15% weekly usage to implement a full boardgame, pretty nice (esp pictogram generation)

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

I’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the fact that 99% of the reactions to our intent to join forces have been positive. ❤️

Prominent tech figures, including some you could see as having a competitive relationship with NVIDIA, have been vocally supportive:

• @satyanadella: “this ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and grow”

• @sundarpichai: “this will strengthen the open model ecosystem!”

• @miramurati: “A great home for Hugging Face to continue expanding access to open models and the tools that let people build with them.”

• @alighodsi: “This will be great for the industry and open source.”

• @AravSrinivas: “absolutely necessary for AI to remain accessible and useful to the public.” He added that he was glad NVIDIA was supporting Hugging Face and the open-source community.

• @MichaelDell: “a big win for the whole ecosystem.”

• @levie: “Another huge moment for open weights AI.”

• @adcock_brett: “This is good for everyone building and open source.”

• @elonmusk: “Congrats!”

• @osanseviero: “The impact of HF in the AI ecosystem has been massive”

Even more importantly, the community has been leaning into the announcement.

Now we’ll get to demonstrate through our actions in the coming months/years that we will keep up the good work 🔥

This is a chance to make open-source AI so much bigger.

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Edit a 10 GB file on Hugging Face without downloading it.

@huggingface/hub patches bucket files so only changed bytes move: +40 KB to a 10.7 GB log = 2.4s, 173 KB⬇ 19 KB⬆ 🤯

Use for: appends, GGUF metadata, parquet files.

npm i @huggingface/hub

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Collector item right here!

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

@IMoonbot @victormustar thanks for being so helpful in Slack! 😁

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

At Hugging Face we have Moon Bot, a central agent accessible from slack &amp; github, with access to the codebases &amp; DB / elastic logs.

Super useful to avoid context switching.

Read more here: https://t.co/dyOnWch7RV

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

The 🐐 of 🐐s

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

Decision of the day: reuse our existing infra bricks.

We have shared state across all our pods backed by MongoDB changestreams, creating load on the DB.

Could add Kafka in the middle, but instead decided to have one pod listen to MongoDB &amp; publish to our existing RabbitMQ.

[Eliott Coyac @coyohf]

That's some budget :)

[Victor M @victormustar]

open source AI is unstoppable now 💛💚