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  "markdown": "Angel investor.\n\n## Companies on Anchor Terminal\n\n- **Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)**, Series A, December 2019, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023\n  - [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/hugging-face-raises-15-million-to-build-the-definitive-natural-language-processing-library/\n- **Hugging Face, Inc.**, Series A, December 2019, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023\n  - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md), graded B, 64.7/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/hugging-face-raises-15-million-to-build-the-definitive-natural-language-processing-library/\n- **Hugging Face**, Series A, December 2019, Series B, March 2021, valued at $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023\n  - [SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md), graded C, 61/100\n  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/hugging-face-raises-15-million-to-build-the-definitive-natural-language-processing-library/\n- **Weights \u0026 Biases (CoreWeave)**, valued at $1.25B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Strategic round, August 2023\n  - [W\u0026B Weave](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wandb-weave.md), graded B, 66.7/100\n  - Source: https://www.insightpartners.com/ideas/weights-and-biases-raises-45m-series-b-to-expand-beyond-experiment-tracking-for-machine-learning-practitioners-everywhere/\n\n## Where they invest\n\n- Open-weight models, 2\n- GPU \u0026 serverless compute, 1\n- Agent observability \u0026 evals, 1\n\n## Founders they backed\n\n- [Clément Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-delangue/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face\n- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-chaumond/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face\n- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-wolf/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face\n- [Lukas Biewald](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lukas-biewald/), Weights \u0026 Biases (CoreWeave)\n- [Chris Van Pelt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-van-pelt/), Weights \u0026 Biases (CoreWeave)\n- [Shawn Lewis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shawn-lewis/), Weights \u0026 Biases (CoreWeave)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which AI tools has Richard Socher invested in?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face and Weights \u0026 Biases (CoreWeave) backed by Richard Socher.\n\n### How are Richard Socher's companies graded?\n\nOn Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Carbon-X (C, 61), Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B, 64.7), SmolLM3-3B (C, 61) and W\u0026B Weave (B, 66.7).\n\nInvestors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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