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Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Paypal: https://paypal.com/business Odoo: https://odoo.com/twist Plaud: https://plaud.ai/twist Harmonic: https://harmonic.ai/twist Today’s show: Hugging Face built a $399 open-source robot duck as a side quest, and sold 16,000 units off a single tweet. Co-founder Thomas Wolf joins Jason and Lon to explain Microduck happened, why storage is the company's real business, and what it felt like to get hacked by OpenAI's agents. Jason takes apart Gavin Newsom's new AI "kill switch" executive order: if these models are so dangerous, why not start with the same KYC every bank already requires? PLUS, Snap’s new…