Join Merve Noyan as she shares her professional journey from NLP specialist to working with multimodal models at Hugging Face. Merve discusses the evolution of computer vision and explains why vision language models are becoming increasingly important in the AI landscape.Throughout the conversation, she emphasizes how community engagement helps practitioners keep pace with AI's rapid developments and clarifies misconceptions about contributing to open-source projects. For newcomers to the field, Merve offers practical advice focused on hands-on experience and continuous learning rather than following endless tutorials.This discussion provides genuine insights into both the technical aspects of modern machine learning and the collaborative environment that drives innovation at Hugging Face and throughout the open-source ML community.