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Hugging Face

Enterprise AI platforms · New York, United States

Almost every open-weight model released by a foundation-model lab - Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek included - gets distributed through Hugging Face's Hub, making it the closest thing the AI industry has to shared infrastructure, and Nvidia's 2026 acquisition puts that infrastructure inside the company that supplies most of the industry's chips.

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Founded
2016
Based in
New York, United States
Stage
Subsidiary
Founders
Clément Delangue and 2 more
Record
Verified

What Hugging Face does

Hugging Face was founded in New York in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, all French, originally as a teen chatbot app before pivoting to open-source machine learning tooling. Its Hub now hosts hundreds of thousands of open-weight models, datasets and demo applications, and its `transformers` library is one of the most widely used pieces of open-source AI infrastructure in the industry - used by companies that are otherwise direct competitors of each other.

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In September 2026, Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $13 billion, nearly three times its prior $4.5 billion valuation from a 2023 funding round - folding the industry's most widely used open model hub into the company that supplies most of the industry's training and inference hardware.

What it builds

  • Hugging Face Hub

    Hosting platform for open-weight models, datasets and demo applications.

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  • Transformers

    Widely used open-source Python library for working with transformer-based models.

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