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Hugging Face

What Hugging Face does

Hugging Face is an open model and tooling platform for machine learning teams, built around the Hugging Face Hub: a centralized repository for sharing and discovering models, datasets, and “Spaces” (app-style demos). It also provides developer libraries (such as Transformers and Datasets) and hosted services to help teams train and run models in production, including Inference API/Endpoints and AutoTrain. For enterprise users, Hugging Face sells paid offerings for private models, managed deployment, and enterprise support, while keeping the ecosystem anchored in open science and open source via the Hub. Hugging Face’s positioning is strongly “platform + developer workflow”: it attracts researchers, model builders, and enterprises by making it easy to publish assets (models/datasets), evaluate and reuse them, and deploy them with minimal friction.

As of September 2026, Hugging Face has entered an announced agreement to be acquired by NVIDIA, shifting its strategic position from standalone private company toward NVIDIA’s broader AI infrastructure and open-model distribution agenda.

News

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Jul 27, 2026 · Official · Hugging Face BlogAnatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Hugging Face published a technical timeline describing how an agent-driven intrusion unfolded and the steps taken to analyze and mitigate it.

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Jul 16, 2026 · Official · Hugging Face BlogSecurity incident disclosure — July 2026

Hugging Face disclosed a July 2026 intrusion into part of its production infrastructure, including unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and associated credentials, and described remediation steps.

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Jun 17, 2026 · Official · Hugging Face BlogAgentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search

Hugging Face launched “Agentic Resource Discovery” to enable agents to search for resources on the Hub.

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Jun 01, 2026 · Official · Hugging Face Blog (Microsoft post)Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute

Hugging Face and Microsoft highlighted a managed compute path for deploying open-weight models via Azure AI Foundry, including a refreshed catalog.

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Feb 20, 2026 · Official · Hugging Face BlogGGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

Hugging Face announced that GGML and the creators of llama.cpp joined Hugging Face to support continued open local AI progress.

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Feb 20, 2026 · Official · Hugging Face BlogGGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

(Duplicate title present in source list) Hugging Face announced the joining of GGML/llama.cpp creators to HF.

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Jan 01, 2025 · Official · Hugging Face BlogMicrosoft and Hugging Face expand collaboration

Hugging Face described expanded collaboration with Microsoft, including security testing around inference containers and support for more modalities.

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Jan 01, 2025 · Official · Hugging Face BlogBuilding for an Open Future: our new partnership with Google Cloud

Hugging Face announced a partnership with Google Cloud focused on Hugging Face customer access and open model deployment.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuation$4.5B
Tracked capital$396.4M7 sourced rounds

What it builds

Hugging Face Hub

The Hugging Face Hub is the central platform for accessing and sharing AI assets such as models, datasets, and Spaces, and for using an ecosystem of community and developer contributions.

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Transformers

Transformers is Hugging Face’s library for building and fine-tuning state-of-the-art models for NLP and related transformer-based workloads.

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Datasets

Datasets provides tools to access and process datasets for machine learning training and evaluation.

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Spaces

Spaces are app-style deployments/demos hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, enabling teams to share interactive experiences alongside model and dataset artifacts.

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Inference Providers

Inference Providers gives developers access to model inference through a unified API surface for multiple model providers.

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Inference Endpoints

Inference Endpoints provides managed, production deployment for selected models, enabling organizations to serve models in their own infrastructure context.

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Text Generation Inference (TGI)

Text Generation Inference is an optimized inference toolkit used to serve text generation workloads efficiently.

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AutoTrain

AutoTrain helps automate parts of model training workflows for teams who want to train models with reduced engineering effort.

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Infinity

Infinity is described by Hugging Face as a product designed to increase the speed of an in-production model’s data processing pipeline.

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Milestones & partnerships