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Kotoba Technologies

Developer distribution advantage

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Rising signal69.7
Rising rank#8
Profile completeness50%
Last public activitySep 2, 2026
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PUBLIC TRACTION

Usage, audience and developer pull

45.2KHF model downloads2.8K per model
190HF followers445 total likes
274GitHub stars34 forks
16Model portfolio4 datasets · 3 Spaces

WHY IT IS ON THE RADAR

Developer distribution advantage

  • Usage outruns audience
  • Shipping now
  • GitHub momentum
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MODEL FOOTPRINT

What it publishes

Audio/SpeechLanguage/Text
Most popular HF repositorykotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper-v2.216.7K downloads · 127 likes ↗
Top tasks
automatic-speech-recognition (6), text-generation (2)
Model sizes
Unknown (10); 0.5-3B (6)
Base families
Not declared
Libraries
transformers, ctranslate2
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DEVELOPER ACTIVITY

How it ships

Original repositories14
Forked repositories5
Pushed in 90 days6
Archived share0%
Most-starred repositorykotoba-tech/kotoba-whisper101 stars · 10 forks ↗
Languages
Python, Jupyter Notebook
Topics
Not detected
Latest release
kotoba-tech/dotsu-ota-v2 · Aug 27, 2026
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ACTIVITY TIMELINE

Latest observed moves

  1. GitHub pushRepository activity ↗
  2. GitHub releaseRelease 0.0.135 ↗
  3. HF SpaceSpace published or updated ↗
  4. HF modelModel published or updated ↗
  5. HF datasetDataset published or updated ↗
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THE NEOLAB STACK

Publicly evidenced tooling

Training
Transformers
Compute
Not disclosed
Hardware
Not disclosed
Tracking
Not disclosed
Bottlenecks
Not disclosed

“Not disclosed” means no evidence was found in the sampled public metadata or top model card—not that the lab does not use the tool.

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Nearest modality peers

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INVESTOR DILIGENCE

Validate developer-to-model conversion, enterprise usage, and repeat adoption.

  • HF member count is only a public-profile proxy

MISSING FROM THIS RECORD

headquartersfoundedYearfoundersOrLeadershipemployeeCountfundingbusinessModelproducts

Completeness: 7 of 14 tracked field groups. Unknowns are explicit so an analyst can close them.

DATA PROVENANCE

Every claim should be auditable.

Platform counters are a point-in-time public snapshot. Editorial facts are only promoted after source review.

Hugging Face organizationObserved 2026-09-03 ↗GitHub organization APIObserved 2026-09-03 ↗

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