companies
HuggingFace
New York-based AI company operating the Hugging Face Hub, the leading open platform for sharing machine learning models, datasets, and libraries such as Transformers.
Hugging Face was founded in 2016 in New York City by French entrepreneurs Clement Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf. The company initially built a teenager-oriented chatbot app before pivoting to machine learning tooling after open-sourcing the natural language processing model behind it. Hugging Face now operates the Hugging Face Hub, an open platform hosting hundreds of thousands of machine learning models, datasets, and demo Spaces, and maintains widely used open-source libraries including Transformers, Diffusers, and Tokenizers. The company has raised over $400 million, including a $235 million Series D round in August 2023 led by investors such as Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, valuing the company at approximately $4.5 billion. Clement Delangue serves as CEO, Julien Chaumond as CTO, and Thomas Wolf as Chief Science Officer. Hugging Face remains a central infrastructure provider for the open-source AI/ML community as of 2026.
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Sector
- infrastructure
Tools
- Text Generation Inference
Open-source server for deploying and serving language models with streaming, batching, quantization, and multi-GPU inference.