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The AI community building the future — the de facto 'GitHub of machine learning' hosting 3M+ models
HQ: New York, NY (remote-first; Paris office) | Founded: 2016 | Employees: ~900-990 | Stage: Acquired by NVIDIA (Sept 2026, $12.93B; closes H1 2027) | Website: https://huggingface.co
Hugging Face is an American (French-founded) AI community and platform company that operates the largest open-source catalog of machine learning models, datasets, and AI applications in the world — hosting 3M+ models, 500K+ datasets, and 1M+ demo apps used by 18M+ developers and 200,000+ organizations. Founded in New York in 2016 as a chatbot startup named after the 🤗 emoji, it pivoted after open-sourcing a PyTorch port of Google's BERT in 2018, which became the enormously popular Transformers library. Today its full-stack offering spans open-source libraries (Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, TRL, Gradio, smolagents, LeRobot, safetensors), the Hugging Face Hub, hosted inference (serverless API, Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers marketplace), AutoTrain fine-tuning, and
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