Hugging Face
Overview
American company that provides a platform and open-source tools for machine learning. Known as “GitHub for ML” with its model hub and datasets repository.
Key Facts
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Founded: 2016-10-01
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Headquarters: New York City, New York, USA
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Status: Private (valuation ~$45B in 2024)
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CEO: Clément Delangue
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Founded by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf
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Hugging Face Hub hosts 500,000+ models and datasets
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Transformers library is the leading ML library for NLP and beyond
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Open-sourced models: Llama (Meta), Mistral, and many others
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Spaces: hosted ML demos and applications
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Major players in the open-source AI ecosystem
Products Mentioned in Wiki
- transformers
- huggingface-hub
- datasets