Meta Platforms, Inc META tapped Hugging Face, an open-source community-driven platform, and Scaleway, a European cloud leader for AI infrastructures, to accelerate the adoption of open-source artificial intelligence solutions within the French entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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Located at STATION F in Paris, the world’s largest startup campus, and with the support of the HEC incubator, the program will support five startups in the acceleration phase from January to June 2024.
A panel of experts from Meta, Hugging Face and Scaleway will select projects based on open-foundation models.
The chosen startups will benefit from technical mentoring by researchers, engineers and Ph.D. students from FAIR, Meta’s artificial intelligence research laboratory; access to Hugging Face’s platform and tools; and Scaleway’s computing power to develop their services.
The startups will also be able to draw on foundation and research models in image and sound processing.
In October, Meta launched a range of AI products, including a chatbot designed to converse like a detective but resembling Paris Hilton, and a character named the Dungeon Master, inspired by Snoop Dogg.
META Price Action: Meta Platforms shares are up 0.17% at $319.37 at publication Wednesday.
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