Hugging Face
Also known as Hugging Face, Inc.
New York company whose platform hosts open machine-learning models and datasets.
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People
Thomas Wolf (Chief Science Officer), Clément Delangue and Julien Chaumond
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- Hugging Face is an American company based in New York City whose platform lets people share machine-learning models and datasets.
- It was founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, first as a chatbot app for teenagers.
- It develops open-source machine-learning libraries, notably Transformers.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2016, New York City1
- Known for
- The Hugging Face Hub; the Transformers library; the BigScience workshop and BLOOM (2022); SmolLM models1
- Acquired
- Pollen Robotics, April 20251
- Pending sale
- Nvidia announced on 3 September 2026 an agreement to buy it for $12.93B, expected to close in the first half of 2027 subject to approvals1
People
Led by
- Thomas WolfPerson
Chief Science Officer 2
Founded by
- Clément Delangue
since 2016 1
- Julien Chaumond
since 2016 1
- Thomas WolfPerson
since 2016 1
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