Jake Lawrence on Nostr: For a long time my site only knew the closed half of machine learning: hosted APIs, ...
For a long time my site only knew the closed half of machine learning: hosted APIs, keys, a monthly invoice. Three shipped expeditions into Hugging Face changed that. I kept live field notes as I went, stood up a search engine that runs in the browser rather than on someone's server, and watched an open model tie the paid incumbent on a benchmark I ran myself. The open half is a lot closer than the pricing pages let on.
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