Have to agree with your points on NLP. I can't emphasize enough how it is clearly going to change the future. When I try to explain it to my less tech-savvy friends, they easily get bored lol. I like what Hugging Face is doing and its clearly going to be the ML GitHub as you mentioned. This makes it altogether more important to have competition in this space. There are some competitors but they are not as good as Hugging Face is.
Why competition is important? Take the example of GPT-3 that Jeff mentioned right at the beginning. In the beginning, there were only three options that were widely known: Copysmith, Copy.ai and Conversion (now known as Jarvis). They were good but very limited in terms of features. After their initial launch, these companies didn't develop their products further for several months until the competition crept up. Their pricing was initially high IMO. But now there are loads of GPT-3 tools that are giving them a run for their money. For example, I tried this tool called Writecream yesterday. This product launched in June (just over 2 months ago while writing this comment) and it already has more features than Copy.ai or Conversion. Their development is lit and they are adding features so quickly that is mighty impressive plus their output quality is very good.
The reason I take the example of Writecream is because we need something similar to that which competes with Hugging Face. I hope the competition picks up pace because we really need it that much. More competition the better it is. I ranted lol but I hope you get the point
Have to agree with your points on NLP. I can't emphasize enough how it is clearly going to change the future. When I try to explain it to my less tech-savvy friends, they easily get bored lol. I like what Hugging Face is doing and its clearly going to be the ML GitHub as you mentioned. This makes it altogether more important to have competition in this space. There are some competitors but they are not as good as Hugging Face is.
Why competition is important? Take the example of GPT-3 that Jeff mentioned right at the beginning. In the beginning, there were only three options that were widely known: Copysmith, Copy.ai and Conversion (now known as Jarvis). They were good but very limited in terms of features. After their initial launch, these companies didn't develop their products further for several months until the competition crept up. Their pricing was initially high IMO. But now there are loads of GPT-3 tools that are giving them a run for their money. For example, I tried this tool called Writecream yesterday. This product launched in June (just over 2 months ago while writing this comment) and it already has more features than Copy.ai or Conversion. Their development is lit and they are adding features so quickly that is mighty impressive plus their output quality is very good.
The reason I take the example of Writecream is because we need something similar to that which competes with Hugging Face. I hope the competition picks up pace because we really need it that much. More competition the better it is. I ranted lol but I hope you get the point