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
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May 9, 2022
$4.5B
Aug 24, 2023
$12.9B
Sep 3, 2026
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Financial events
| Date | Event | Type | Figures | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | NVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging Face | Acquisition | $12.9B deal · $12.9B* valuation | NVIDIA |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Pollen Robotics joins Hugging Face | Acquisition | Hugging Face | |
| Aug 8, 2024 | XetHub joins Hugging Face | Acquisition | Hugging Face | |
| Jun 13, 2024 | Argilla joins Hugging Face | Acquisition | Hugging Face | |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Series D funding at $4.5 billion valuation | Funding round | $235M raised · $4.5B* valuation | TechCrunch |
| May 9, 2022 | Series C funding at $2 billion valuation | Funding round | $100M raised · $2B* valuation | Hugging Face |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Gradio joins Hugging Face | Acquisition | Hugging Face | |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Series B funding round | Funding round | $40M raised | TechCrunch |
| Dec 17, 2019 | Series A funding round | Funding round | $15M raised | TechCrunch |
| May 2018 | Seed funding round | Funding round | $4M raised | Crunchbase |
| Mar 2017 | Angel funding round | Funding round | $1.2M raised | Crunchbase |
* Market cap / valuation. Company values are AI-attributed: the latest market cap or valuation × the share attributed to AI (100% for pure AI companies). Methodology