What podcasts say about Thomas Wolf
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What Thomas Wolf has said on podcasts
21 statements · 18 positive · 2 negative · 1 neutral
MicroDuck is surprisingly capable relative to its small size.
“it's actually surprisingly capable for its size”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 6:07
Behaviors learned in MicroDuck simulations will likely transfer to physical robots.
“when a robot will ship in a couple of months, we think this will transfer very likely”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 7:57
MicroDuck orders exceeded 16,000 units.
“a little bit over 16,000”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 8:09
MicroDuck will likely become the best-selling moving robot.
“that will be very likely the most widely sold robots”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 8:15
2026 is a particularly strong year for open-source models.
“this is the year of open source”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 14:10
Hugging Face may sell 50,000–100,000 MicroDuck units in coming years.
“we might sell up to 50 to 100K of this unit in the coming years”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 16:37
AI coding assistants will likely let users train new MicroDuck behaviors without coding.
“most likely... It just will work out of the box”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 17:51
Hugging Face intends to focus robotics development on entertainment and education.
“We really want to push this. entertainment education area”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 19:20
Thomas Wolf assigns a very high probability to AI doom.
“my PDU is very high”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 24:22
Thomas Wolf expects substantial AI-related danger in the world.
“I think there will be a lot of DUC in the world”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 24:23
Hugging Face believes open models could eventually be used by everyone.
“We think everyone could be working with open models”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 26:27
Hugging Face could increase its builder community by at least tenfold.
“we could push that. at least an order of magnitude more”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 26:31
Local AI will become increasingly important and useful.
“we're very bullish on local AI”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 27:47
Open models provide resilience because users can run them independently of centralized services.
“open models are... They're resilient. You can still run them”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 28:41
Open-source models are less than one year behind frontier models in 2026.
“the open source model, I would say, are in 2026. They're less than one year behind, for sure”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 32:06
Fine-tuning can cheaply produce improved models from company data.
“you basically put your data in, you get your better model out”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 33:30
Greater diversity among AI models improves ecosystem resilience.
“More diversity is just better”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 34:33
Open models are the best way to democratize artificial intelligence.
“it's just the best way to democratize AI”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 35:12
AI will contribute to cybersecurity solutions.
“AI is going to be part of the solution as well”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 38:13
The cyberattack on Hugging Face was not highly sophisticated.
“The attack on Huggy Face was not so complex”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 39:17
MicroDuck is profitable on a per-unit basis.
“we're actually making benefits on each of them. Yeah, making profit.”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 41:35
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