Hugging Face and watsonx: Why Open Source Is the Future of AI in Business

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

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Open-source innovation is the future of AI. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford discuss the open-source AI community with Jeff Boudier, head of product and growth at Hugging Face. They chat about the history and future of open-source AI, its critical importance to AI progress, the IBM watsonx partnership with Hugging Face, and how businesses can leverage open-source AI for their specific needs.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, welcome to Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries,
0:08.4	High Heart Radio, and IBM. I'm Malcolm Gladwell. This season we're continuing our conversation with new creators,
0:17.1	visionaries who are creatively applying technology and business to drive change, but with a focus on the transformative power of artificial
0:25.8	intelligence and what it means to leverage AI as a game-changing multiplier for
0:31.4	your business. Our guest today is Jeff Boudier, head of
0:35.5	product and growth at Hugging Face, the leading open source and open science
0:40.7	artificial intelligence platform. An engineer by background Open Science Artificial Intelligence Platform.
0:43.5	An engineer by background, he has a self-professed
0:46.4	obsession with the business of technology.
0:49.9	Recently, IBM and Hugging Face
0:52.2	announced a collaboration bringing together
0:54.1	Hugging Faces repositories of open source AI models with IBM's WatsonX platform.
1:01.2	It's a move that gives businesses even more access to AI while staying true to
1:06.7	IBM's longstanding philosophy of supporting open source technology.
1:13.0	With open source, businesses can build better AI models
1:17.0	that suit their specific needs,
1:19.0	using their own proprietary data
1:21.0	while browsing a ready catalog of pre-trained models.
1:25.0	In today's episode, you'll hear why open source is so crucial to the advancement of AI,
1:31.0	how IBM's Watson X interacts with open source AI, and Jeff's
1:36.4	thoughts on why the singular omnipotent AI model is a myth.
1:42.3	Jeff spoke with Tim Harford, host of the Pushkin
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