AI is moving fast — but who decides how it’s built, shared, and scaled? AtTechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re diving in withThomas Wolf,co-founder and chief science officer ofHugging Face, for a session on what it takes to make cutting-edge research and models truly open and accessible. Catch him on theAI Stage, along with thousands of other like-minded tech leaders and innovators.
The future of AI won’t just be defined by closed labs and big tech budgets — it will be written in open-source repos, global research collaborations, and moonshot experiments that anyone can build on. Wolf brings a rare perspective on how to bridge research, community, and real-world applications in ways that shape both the technology and the ecosystem around it.
Whether you’re a founder, developer, or investor,this sessionoffers a clear view of where AI is headed — and how openness can drive the next wave of breakthroughs.
Wolf has been at the center of some of the most important advances in AI. At Hugging Face, he helped launch the Transformers and Datasets libraries, led theBigScience Workshop on large language modelsthat produced BLOOM, and has championed open science across industry and academia. He’s also co-author ofNatural Language Processing with TransformersandThe Ultra-Scale Playbook, resources shaping how the next generation of AI practitioners learn and build.
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Join10,000+ startup and VC leadersOctober 27–29 atMoscone West in San Francisco, with headline-making sessions, hands-on discussions, and intentional networking designed to fuel your next move.Disrupt 2025is where the future of tech gets built and where we celebrate 20 years of TechCrunch.Lock in your passnow tosave up to $668with Regular Bird pricing before it endsSeptember 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
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