Hugging Face

Hugging Face is an AI company and open source community where machine learning practitioners share and collaborate on models, datasets, and applications. Its hub hosts a large library of models and datasets across text, image, video, audio, and 3D modalities, along with hosted applications called Spaces. The company maintains open source libraries such as Transformers, Diffusers, Tokenizers, PEFT, and Accelerate, and offers an inference API that provides access to models from multiple AI providers through a single interface.

The platform serves individual developers, researchers, and organizations, including large technology companies and non-profits that publish models on it. Paid options include Team and Enterprise plans with security, access controls, and support, as well as compute services such as Inference Endpoints and GPU-backed Spaces. Hugging Face describes its mission as advancing and democratizing artificial intelligence through open source and open science.