INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chatbot startup Hugging Face has raised a $4 million seed round led by Ronny Conway from a_capital
Existing investors Betaworks, SV Angel and Kevin Durant are also participating.I already reviewed Hugging Face so I won’t write the same
But the startup has been building a chatbot app with a strong personality for bored teenagers
Instead of focusing on customer support or convenience, Hugging Face is focusing on emotions and entertainment.It’s been available in the
App Store as a standalone app and on Kik
Today, the company is also launching Hugging Face on Messenger
It should help bring new users.Even without Messenger, Hugging Face now handles 1 million messages per day
In total, Hugging Face has received over 100 million messages.It’s also worth noting that Hugging Face accepts text messages, photos,
So you can take a selfie, send a sad emoji, and the chatbot will know how you feel.And it’s clear that Hugging Face is betting on surprise
The app doesn’t have to be perfect to be entertaining.Beyond the consumer app, the team behind Hugging Face has written a couple of
research papers about artificial intelligence
It’s clear that the startup plans on building a great team of engineers when it comes to natural language conversations
The team will double over the coming months.
