Hugging Face
Open AI collaboration company and platform for discovering, sharing, building, training, evaluating, and deploying machine-learning models, datasets, and applications. Hugging Face operates the Hub and develops widely used open-source libraries including Transformers, Datasets, Diffusers, Accelerate, and Gradio, alongside inference, enterprise, compute, and robotics products.
$12.9B*187%increase
Key stats
- $395M
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- Sep 22, 2026
- Products
Recent releases
Sep 22, 2026Transformers adds native llama.cpp quant supportFeature update
Transformers added support for running llama.cpp GGUF quantized models within the library’s model-definition and inference workflows.
Sep 21, 2026Tokenizers v1 releasedSDK release
Hugging Face released Tokenizers v1, a major milestone for its Rust-based tokenization stack.
Sep 3, 2026NVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging FaceAnnouncedAcquisition
NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9303 billion. The companies said Hugging Face would retain its brand, platform, open-source commitments, and multi-cloud, multi-accelerator approach pending closing.
Jun 26, 2026HF Jobs adds exposed service portsFeature update
HF Jobs added exposed-port workflows for running private services such as OpenAI-compatible vLLM servers directly on Hugging Face compute.
Mar 10, 2026Storage Buckets launchedProduct launch
Hugging Face launched mutable, Xet-backed S3-like Storage Buckets for checkpoints, logs, traces, and intermediate AI data.
Dec 1, 2025Transformers v5 release candidateSDK release
Transformers v5 entered release candidate with simplified model definitions, standardized attention interfaces, and support for more than 400 architectures.
Oct 27, 2025huggingface_hub v1.0 releasedSDK release
The core Hugging Face Hub Python client reached v1.0 with a redesigned hf CLI, httpx networking, and Xet-based file transfers.
Sep 2025HUGS deployment containers discontinuedFeature update
Hugging Face discontinued HUGS model-deployment containers and directed users toward enterprise collections and other deployment paths.
Upcoming
Nothing scheduled.
AI valuation history
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Models
| Model | Released | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| SmolLM3 3B | Jul 2025 | Yes |
| SmolVLA | Jun 2025 | Yes |
| SmolVLM2 | Feb 2025 | Yes |
| SmolVLM 256M | Jan 2025 | Yes |
| SmolVLM 500M | Jan 2025 | Yes |
| ModernBERTFamily | Dec 2024 | Yes |
Platforms & products
| Name | Type | Category | Launched | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage Buckets | Product | — | Mar 2026 | active |
| HF Jobs | Product | — | Jul 2025 | active |
| Hugging Face Compute | Platform | Training | Jul 2025 | active |
| Reachy Mini | Product | — | Jul 2025 | active |
| Training Cluster as a Service | Product | — | Jun 2025 | active |
| Xet-backed Hub Storage | Product | — | May 2025 | active |
| SO-101 | Product | — | Apr 2025 | active |
| Inference Providers | Product | — | Jan 2025 | active |
| Open R1 | Product | — | Jan 2025 | active |
| smolagents | Product | — | Dec 2024 | active |
| HUGS | Product | — | Oct 2024 | discontinued |
| SO-100 | Product | — | Oct 2024 | active |
| FineWeb-Edu | Product | — | Jun 2024 | active |
| FineWeb | Product | — | May 2024 | active |
| LeRobot | Platform | — | May 2024 | active |
| Reachy 2 | Product | — | Nov 2023 | active |
| Text Embeddings Inference | Product | — | Nov 2023 | active |
| Candle | Product | — | Aug 2023 | active |
| Collections | Product | — | Jul 2023 | active |
| Daily Papers | Product | — | Jun 2023 | active |
| Open LLM Leaderboard | Product | — | May 2023 | active |
| HuggingChat | Product | — | Apr 2023 | active |
| Team & Enterprise Hub | Product | — | Jan 2023 | active |
| PEFT | Product | — | Dec 2022 | active |
| The Stack | Product | — | Nov 2022 | active |
| Inference Endpoints | Product | — | Oct 2022 | active |
| Text Generation Inference | Product | — | Oct 2022 | maintenance |
| Hugging Face Enterprise | Platform | Enterprise AI | Aug 2022 | active |
| Private Hub | Product | — | Aug 2022 | legacy |
| TRL | Product | — | Aug 2022 | active |
| Diffusers | Platform | — | Jul 2022 | active |
| Evaluate | Product | — | May 2022 | active |
| Dataset Viewer | Product | — | Mar 2022 | active |
| SafeTensors | Product | — | Mar 2022 | active |
| Spaces | Product | — | Oct 2021 | active |
| Optimum | Product | — | Sep 2021 | active |
| AutoTrain | Product | — | Jun 2021 | active |
| Hugging Face PRO | Product | — | May 2021 | active |
| Accelerate | Product | — | Apr 2021 | active |
| Hugging Face Inference | Platform | Inference | Jul 2020 | active |
| Inference API | Product | — | Jul 2020 | active |
| Dataset Hub | Product | — | May 2020 | active |
| Datasets | Platform | — | May 2020 | active |
| Hugging Face Hub | Platform | Model Hub | May 2020 | active |
| Model Hub | Product | — | May 2020 | active |
| Tokenizers | Product | — | Mar 2020 | active |
| Gradio | Platform | — | Jan 2019 | active |
| Transformers | Platform | — | Oct 2018 | active |
Sources
- Sep 22, 2026 · Transformers adds native llama.cpp quant supportHugging Face
- Sep 21, 2026 · Tokenizers v1 releasedHugging Face
- Sep 3, 2026 · NVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging FaceNVIDIA
- Jun 26, 2026 · HF Jobs adds exposed service portsHugging Face
- Mar 10, 2026 · Storage Buckets launchedHugging Face
- Dec 1, 2025 · Transformers v5 release candidateHugging Face
- Oct 27, 2025 · huggingface_hub v1.0 releasedHugging Face
- Sep 1, 2025 · HUGS deployment containers discontinuedHugging Face
- Jul 30, 2025 · Hugging Face expands into on-demand computeHugging Face
- Jul 30, 2025 · HF Jobs launchedHugging Face
- Jul 9, 2025 · Reachy Mini launchedHugging Face
- Jul 8, 2025 · SmolLM3 3B releasedHugging Face
- Jun 11, 2025 · Training Cluster as a Service announced with NVIDIAHugging Face
- Jun 3, 2025 · SmolVLA releasedHugging Face
- May 1, 2025 · Xet-backed storage rolls out across the HubHugging Face
- Apr 28, 2025 · SO-101 robot arm releasedHugging Face
- Apr 14, 2025 · Pollen Robotics joins Hugging FaceHugging Face
- Apr 4, 2025 · Gradio reaches one million monthly usersHugging Face
- Feb 20, 2025 · SmolVLM2 releasedHugging Face
- Jan 28, 2025 · Inference Providers launchedHugging Face
- Jan 25, 2025 · Open R1 project launchedHugging Face
- Jan 23, 2025 · SmolVLM 500M releasedHugging Face
- Jan 23, 2025 · SmolVLM 256M releasedHugging Face
- Jan 16, 2025 · TGI adds multiple inference backendsHugging Face
- Dec 31, 2024 · smolagents library releasedHugging Face
- Dec 19, 2024 · ModernBERT releasedHugging Face
- Nov 28, 2024 · SmolVLM 2B releasedHugging Face
- Nov 26, 2024 · Hub upload and download architecture rebuilt around XetHugging Face
- Nov 1, 2024 · SmolLM2 releasedHugging Face
- Oct 23, 2024 · Gradio 5 releasedHugging Face
- Oct 23, 2024 · HUGS inference microservices launchedHugging Face
- Oct 1, 2024 · SO-100 low-cost robot arm releasedGitHub
- Sep 13, 2024 · Accelerate 1.0 release candidateHugging Face
- Aug 22, 2024 · IDEFICS3 releasedHugging Face
- Aug 8, 2024 · XetHub joins Hugging FaceHugging Face
- Jul 16, 2024 · SmolLM releasedHugging Face
- Jun 26, 2024 · Open LLM Leaderboard 2 releasedHugging Face
- Jun 13, 2024 · Argilla joins Hugging FaceHugging Face
- Jun 2, 2024 · FineWeb-Edu dataset releasedHugging Face
- May 30, 2024 · FineWeb dataset releasedHugging Face
- May 21, 2024 · Microsoft and Hugging Face deepen AI collaborationHugging Face
- May 20, 2024 · LeRobot open robotics library launchedGitHub
- Apr 17, 2024 · IDEFICS2 releasedHugging Face
- Feb 28, 2024 · StarCoder2 releasedHugging Face
- Jan 25, 2024 · Google Cloud strategic partnershipHugging Face
- Nov 1, 2023 · Reachy 2 launchedPollen Robotics
- Nov 1, 2023 · Text Embeddings Inference releasedGitHub
- Oct 25, 2023 · Zephyr-7B-β releasedHugging Face
- Sep 28, 2023 · Zephyr-7B-α releasedHugging Face
- Aug 24, 2023 · Candle Rust ML framework releasedHugging Face
- Aug 24, 2023 · Series D funding at $4.5 billion valuationTechCrunch
- Aug 22, 2023 · IDEFICS releasedHugging Face
- Aug 10, 2023 · Hugging Face launches in AWS MarketplaceHugging Face
- Aug 8, 2023 · NVIDIA and Hugging Face bring DGX Cloud to developersNVIDIA
- Jul 28, 2023 · Collections launched on the HubHugging Face
- Jun 1, 2023 · Daily Papers launchedHugging Face
- May 26, 2023 · Open LLM Leaderboard launchedHugging Face
- May 4, 2023 · StarCoder releasedHugging Face
- Apr 25, 2023 · HuggingChat launchedHugging Face
- Feb 21, 2023 · AWS and Hugging Face expand strategic collaborationAmazon Web Services
- Jan 1, 2023 · Team and Enterprise Hub plans introducedHugging Face
- Dec 9, 2022 · PEFT library releasedGitHub
- Nov 9, 2022 · BLOOMZ instruction-tuned models releasedHugging Face
- Nov 1, 2022 · The Stack dataset releasedHugging Face
- Oct 6, 2022 · Inference Endpoints launchedHugging Face
- Oct 1, 2022 · Text Generation Inference releasedGitHub
- Aug 22, 2022 · Stable Diffusion support added to DiffusersHugging Face
- Aug 3, 2022 · Hugging Face enterprise platform launchedHugging Face
- Aug 3, 2022 · Private Hub launchedHugging Face
- Aug 1, 2022 · TRL training library releasedGitHub
- Jul 20, 2022 · Diffusers library launchedHugging Face
- Jul 12, 2022 · BLOOM 176B releasedHugging Face
- May 26, 2022 · Evaluate library launchedHugging Face
- May 9, 2022 · Series C funding at $2 billion valuationHugging Face
- Mar 1, 2022 · Dataset Viewer launchedHugging Face
- Mar 1, 2022 · SafeTensors introducedGitHub
- Dec 21, 2021 · Gradio joins Hugging FaceHugging Face
- Oct 5, 2021 · Gradio Spaces launchedHugging Face
- Sep 1, 2021 · Optimum optimization library launchedGitHub
- Jun 10, 2021 · AutoTrain launchedHugging Face
- May 1, 2021 · Hugging Face PRO subscription launchedHugging Face
- May 1, 2021 · BigScience research workshop launchedBigScience
- Apr 16, 2021 · Accelerate library launchedHugging Face
- Mar 11, 2021 · Series B funding roundTechCrunch
- Nov 19, 2020 · Transformers v4 release candidateGitHub
- Jul 1, 2020 · Hugging Face begins hosted model inference servicesHugging Face
- Jul 1, 2020 · Hosted Inference API launchedHugging Face
- May 26, 2020 · Dataset Hub launches with Datasets libraryHugging Face
- May 26, 2020 · Datasets library launchedGitHub
- May 1, 2020 · Model Hub opens for collaborative model sharingHugging Face
- May 1, 2020 · Hugging Face Hub launches as collaborative ML platformHugging Face
- Mar 10, 2020 · Tokenizers library releasedGitHub
- Dec 17, 2019 · Series A funding roundTechCrunch
- Oct 2, 2019 · DistilBERT releasedHugging Face
- Sep 26, 2019 · Library renamed TransformersGitHub
- Jan 1, 2019 · Gradio open-source interface framework launchedGitHub
- Oct 11, 2018 · PyTorch-Pretrained-BERT releasedGitHub
- May 22, 2018 · Seed funding roundCrunchbase
- Mar 4, 2017 · Angel funding roundCrunchbase
- Jan 1, 2016 · Hugging Face foundedHugging Face
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