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Forget LAMP Stack: LLM Stack is Here!
Huggingface has positioned itself as the new standard stack in the NLP/LLM ecosystem. Now the companies are asking for an LLM stack.
On the may of last year, Huggingface closed a new round of funding. This was the Series C funding round with a whopping evaluation of $2 billion. The Series C funding itself was just 5% of the total funding ($100 million). This round was facilitated by Lux Capital with Addition, Betaworks, AIX Ventures, Cygni Capital, Kevin Durant, and Olivier Pomel, continuing their streak of investing in new tech firms.
Since the beginning of Huggingface in 2016, as a chatbot “AI best friend forever (BFF)” by Clément Delangue (CEO) and Julien Chaumond (CTO) for teenagers, the company has certainly evolved and changed direction from being a “chatbot could interact with teens and provide emotional support and entertainment based on their needs” to a one-stop shop for all things NLP and Large Lanague Models. This has been a tremendous growth and, quite frankly, a well-deserved one. Just look at some of the big projects and starts on Git Hub in the last few years.
LAMP stack
A LAMP stack is a popular and widely used software bundle or stack for building websites. LAMP is an acronym that stands for:
