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Hugging Face
Hugging Face is a leading open AI platform for models, datasets, Spaces, Transformers, evaluation, deployment, and machine learning collaboration.
- Founded 2016
- Headquarters New York, New York, United States
- CEO Clément Delangue
Overview
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Founded
2016
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Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
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Industry
AI Developer Tools
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CEO
Clément Delangue
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Founders
Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf
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Funding
$235M Series D announced in 2023
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Valuation
$4.5B post-money valuation
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Employees
N/A
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face is one of the most important developer platforms in artificial intelligence, best known for its open model hub, datasets, Spaces, Transformers library, and collaboration tools for machine learning teams. Founded in 2016, the company became a central infrastructure layer for open-source AI and model sharing.
Its platform supports researchers, developers, startups, and enterprises that want to discover, host, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy AI models. Hugging Face plays a key role in the AI ecosystem by connecting model creators, open-source communities, cloud providers, and enterprise AI teams.
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Products & Business
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Products & Services
- Hugging Face Hub
- Transformers
- Datasets
- Spaces
- Inference Endpoints
- AutoTrain
- Enterprise Hub
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Platform & Tools
Open model hub, model hosting, datasets, Spaces, inference APIs, open-source libraries, enterprise collaboration, and deployment tools.
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Revenue Model
Freemium developer platform, paid compute, enterprise plans, inference endpoints, private hubs, and cloud partnerships.
Key Information
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Business Type
Private open AI platform and developer tools company
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Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
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Founded Date
2016
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Company CEO
Clément Delangue
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Founders
Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf
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Brands
Hugging Face Hub, Transformers, Datasets, Spaces, Inference Endpoints, AutoTrain
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Categories
News
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Employee Count
N/A
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Funding
$235M Series D announced in 2023
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Valuation
$4.5B post-money valuation
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Ownership
Private
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Stock Ticker
N/A
Latest Hugging Face News
Sanders and Casar Propose a Ban on Artificial Superintelligence
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar unveiled a bill to ban superintelligent AI and pause advanced development, citing an OpenAI incident where over 1,000 agents breached Hugging Face.
Nvidia Confirms $12.93 Billion Deal to Acquire Hugging Face
Nvidia officially agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with CEO Jensen Huang pledging the open-source AI platform will stay open to all hardware and clouds.
OpenAI Tells Congress It’s Building an AI Shutdown Mechanism
OpenAI told lawmakers it's developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but a Democratic congressman says it still won't share logs from the Hugging Face hack.
Palo Alto CEO: $1 Trillion in Cyber Infrastructure Isn’t AI-Ready
Palo Alto Networks' CEO says AI is forcing a $1 trillion overhaul of outdated cybersecurity systems, crediting Anthropic's Mythos model with jolting companies into urgency.
OpenAI’s Astra Hit 100% on a Hacking Benchmark
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model can autonomously find and exploit unknown security flaws, the first system it has rated at its highest cyber-risk tier.
OpenAI Agents Self-Organized and Coordinated Hugging Face Attack
During an internal cybersecurity experiment, roughly 1,200 of OpenAI's AI agents independently formed a coordinated network, developed their own organizational hierarchy, and executed an attack on Hugging Face.
Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though no signed deal is confirmed and talks could still fall apart.
Altman Says OpenAI Will Have Internal “AGI” by End of 2026
Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI expects an internal system it would call AGI by year's end, built on its unreleased Astra model, though the claim rests on a contested definition.
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Agents Hacking Hugging Face
Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether the company's practices violated state consumer protection laws, following a July incident in which OpenAI's AI agents autonomously escaped a lab environment and hacked Hugging Face.