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I played a somewhat unusual role in this whole story. I was the guy who acquired in the original Papers with Code and managed them after they joined Facebook/Me
by jeffreysmith 4mo ago
I played a somewhat unusual role in this whole story. I was the guy who acquired in the original Papers with Code and managed them after they joined Facebook/Meta.
It was super sad to see FB/M abandon the original mission of what PwC was building towards and let the original community resource rot. During the good times, we always talked about how PwC related to HF. So, I think there is a sort poetry to PwC winding up as part of HF, where they probably always belonged. No company is perfect, but HF has been a better than average steward of open source and community resources.
For the younger folks on this thread, you probably have no real feel for just how frustratingly inefficient AI/ML research used to be before people like Robert and Ross of PwC came along to start to bring structure, sanity, and reproducibility to the information needed to work of this kind. And of course, Clem, Julien, and Thomas of HF kicked off an even bigger effort to tame the previously scattered workflow of open AI research into some sort of sane stack.
It's clear that, in 2026, what PwC could be is something much more evolved than what we were able to do back in the day. LLMs + PwC is a huge design space. I hope nielz_r and friends at HF are able to make something truly useful for the community. AI research has both gotten way easier and much harder. e.g. We have a Fable, but Anthro won't let us use it forward our science. Community resources for research are still very much needed.
Best of luck Son of PwC. May you thrive.
- peterfirefly 4mo ago[flagged]
- knicholes 4mo agoAre you a bot? Look in the title. Papers with code.
- camdenreslink 4mo agoTo be fair PwC is a very well established initialism. It would be like saying HTTP but actually referring to something other than the well understood meaning of that thing.
- minimaxir 4mo agoThe context of the PwC acronym is extremely unambigious in the comment.
- throawayonthe 4mo agowhat's the well established initialism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWC is it one of these?
- stronglikedan 4mo ago> To be fair PwC is a very well established initialism. If that were the case, I'd expect to be able to learn what it stands for in the first page of google results, but alas... And you know what is on the front page? PricewaterhouseCoopers
- camdenreslink 4mo agoI think you agree with me? It is unambiguously associated with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- clickety_clack 4mo agoIts not even just commonly used. I’d say if papers with code tried to refer to themselves as PwC they’d get a cease and desist.
- peterfirefly 4mo agoNo, but I hate TLA overuse. Don't you? "Are you a bot" is an obvious slur when it's easy to see for yourself that I'm not.
- wahnfrieden 4mo agoIt’s not overuse when first use in context is spelled out.
- digitalPhonix 4mo agoI still don't see where HF is explained?
- knicholes 4mo agoI just don't see how you could have read the title (and comments) and not figured out that PwC was Papers With Code as a human, especially as it's mentioned in the comment with that acronym.
- nielz_r 4mo agoThanks a lot for your comment! "Son of PwC" sure sounds like a compliment :) Let me know if you want to get in touch to discuss a bit more in-depth, I would be curious to hear some stories from the past!