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Today’s top story should put a smile on your emoji face. Hugging Face, a company that provides data science hosting and development tools, grabbed a large chunk of change from a group of investors that includes Salesforce and Nvidia. Here’s how.

Next, we have some Meta news for you. Learn about Code Llama, a code-generating AI model, and start mourning the impending loss of Messenger Lite for Android.

Meanwhile, Better.com is now a public company, but its shares didn’t pop as expected. See why that might be.

And find out what Slack’s former head of growth is up to now. We’ll give you a hint — it involves tracking growth. Read more.

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