Hugging Face

Hugging Face, Inc. is a New York City-based company founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf. It specializes in developing computational tools and a platform for machine learning applications, particularly in natural language processing (NLP). Initially launched as a chatbot app, the company transitioned to an open-source hub for sharing machine learning models, datasets, and applications. The core offerings of Hugging Face include the Transformers Library, a popular open-source library for NLP that supports models like BERT and GPT. They also provide a Model and Dataset Hub for collaboration and discovery of machine learning resources. Their enterprise products, introduced around 2020-2021, feature AutoTrain for automated model training and an Inference API for model deployment. Hugging Face has built a strong community and serves over 10,000 organizations, including notable clients like Intel, Qualcomm, and Pfizer.