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🍉 Abubakar Abid

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🍉 Abubakar Abid

@abidlabs

Founder @Gradio and @FatimaFellowshp || Head of Apps @HuggingFace || Take 1 min to speak up for Gaza: act.uscpr.org/a/callforgaza

Palo Alto, CA

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Joined May 2013

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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Sep 12, 2025
SO excited to share I'm taking on a new role: Head of Applications @huggingface! My goal is to allow EVERY developer to build on top of open-source models, datasets, and 🤗 Hub, just like we've done with Gradio & Trackio. If you'd like to collaborate on open-source AI, DM me.
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
May 27, 2024
If you think that somehow the presence of some Hamas members justifies the killing of children in Rafah Ask yourself: If 2 Hamas members were hiding in a daycare in Israel or in the US, would you support bombing the daycare? Why are Palestinian lives worth less?
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Aug 28, 2022
I've worked with many aspiring PhD students (esp. international) who ask what a statement of purpose should look like I'm sharing the SoP that helped me get into PhD programs at MIT, Stanford, and Georgia Tech -- hope it helps anyone applying this cycle!
docs.google.com
Abubakar Abid Statement of Purpose PhD (MIT Biomedical Program)
As far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated by difficult problems. Being the child of two doctors, the earliest problems I heard about were medical complications. I would hear from my dad...
🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Aug 6, 2020
I'm shocked how hard it is to generate text about Muslims from GPT-3 that has nothing to do with violence... or being killed...
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Jun 19, 2024
Best HN comment. Ever
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Dec 16, 2021
💥BIG NEWS!💥 Thrilled to announce today that @Gradio has been officially acquired by Hugging Face 🤗 We're going to keep building our open-source library to demo & share machine learning apps, but now with the support of the best ML company on Earth 🚀 gradio.app/joining-huggin…
🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Feb 3, 2021
In 2019, I started remotely mentoring an undergrad CS student in Turkey (friend of friend) on an ML research project He got admitted to a CS PhD program at Georgia Tech, and is now a student there I'm planning on mentoring more students like him. Would anyone like to join me?
🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Apr 25, 2023
🥳 LLMs aren't limited to text anymore! Introducing 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘-𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜, a new open-source library that lets you combine an LLM agent with any Gradio app (for image generation, document analysis, etc.) 💫 GitHub Repo: github.com/freddyaboulton…
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Jul 28, 2022
Many computer vision classes teach theory and algorithms 🙂 BUT they don't cover how to build an ML application end-to-end ☹️ I've put together a practical tutorial on how to build an image classifier, from datasets to deployment! Check it out: colab.research.google.com/drive/1b50WxRu…
🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Dec 19, 2022
Wow sore loser
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
May 11, 2023
Trying out the new 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚜.𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜 library... Here's Hello World of our times (summarize and chat with a PDF) in 6 lines of code including import statements 🤯 Best part is it's all open source, from start to finish 🤗
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Mar 9, 2023
Generating human-like text seems to require ~176B parameters. But generating human-like art requires 1/200 of the parameters (890M). Why?
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Jan 11, 2024
Embraced by Hugging Face: the Inside Story of Our Startup’s Acquisition In late 2021, our team of five engineers, scattered around the globe, signed the papers to shut down our startup, Gradio. For many founders, this would have been a moment of sadness or even bitter
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🍉 Abubakar Abid
@abidlabs
Jan 27, 2022
Thinking about teaching a class on computer vision... Most machine learning courses dive into algos, but I've been thinking instead of covering the "stack" for modern ML: - Preparing the right datasets - Finetuning models - Deploying demos/apps Would anyone find this useful?