Hugging Face

Hugging Face (operating at huggingface.co) is a machine learning community platform engineered for collaboration. Founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and others and headquartered in Manhattan, Hugging Face develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Under the hood, the platform leverages a vast repository of pre-trained models, datasets, and metadata, allowing developers and researchers to build and deploy AI applications without manual browsing. This allows users to accelerate their machine learning workflows and focus on innovation. Backed by $395.2 million in funding from investors including Lux Capital, Sequoia, Coatue, and Addition.