Hugging Face
The leading open-source platform for sharing and deploying AI models, hosting over 500,000 models and serving as the central hub for the open-source AI community.
Hugging Face's model hub hosts over 500,000 pre-trained models and 100,000+ datasets, with millions of monthly downloads. The company's Transformers library is the most widely used framework for working with pre-trained models. Hugging Face raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation. The platform has become indispensable to AI development — virtually every open-source model release occurs through Hugging Face. The company's inference API and Spaces platform enable anyone to deploy AI models without managing infrastructure.
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