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DirJournal Editorial Verdict

Hugging Face is a DirJournal-verified Artificial Intelligence entity.

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    Primary website is live, secure (HTTPS), and free of malware.

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    Minimum 12-month active history in the claimed industry — derived from the business's founding year, Wayback-verified domain age, or listing tenure (any one signal passes).

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  • Physical FootprintData Incomplete

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  • Active LeadershipData Incomplete

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About

Hugging Face

Hugging Face is the largest open-source AI platform and model hub, hosting over 500,000 models, 250,000 datasets, and 300,000 demo applications shared by the AI community. Founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue (CEO), Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in New York, the company started as a chatbot app before pivoting to become the GitHub of machine learning. Hugging Face developed the Transformers library (the most downloaded ML library with 200+ million monthly downloads), Datasets, Diffusers, and Accelerate libraries that are standard tools in AI development. The company has raised $394 million in total funding at a $4.5 billion valuation from investors including Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Salesforce, and IBM. Hugging Face serves over 75,000 organisations including Apple, Google, Meta, and Bloomberg.

DirJournal's Perspective

Editorial analysis

Hugging Face controls the primary distribution layer for open-source AI models, commanding 200+ million monthly downloads of its Transformers library and hosting half a million models that define industry standards.

Reviewed by DirJournal Editorial Board

Frequently Asked

About Hugging Face

What does Hugging Face do?
Hugging Face is the largest open-source AI platform and model hub, hosting over 500,000 models, 250,000 datasets, and 300,000 demo applications shared by the AI community.
Where is Hugging Face based?
Hugging Face is based in New York, New York, United States.
When was Hugging Face founded?
Hugging Face was founded in 2016 and has been operating for 10 years.
Technical Grounding
JSON-LDOrganization
Location
New York, New York, United States
Founded
2016
Team Size
1-10 employees
Digital Footprint · Technical Entity Graph
  • Website
    huggingface.coHTTPS
  • Schema Type
    Organization
  • JSON-LD
    Active
  • NAP Vault ID
    Not assigned
  • Social Profiles
    5 verified profiles
  • Platform Tenure
    New listing
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Organization
areaServed
Global

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Open Source AIModel HubTransformers LibraryMachine LearningNLPAI CommunityDatasetsDiffusers

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