Hugging Face

Hugging Face is a US open-source AI platform company founded in 2016 in New York, providing an open-source model library, datasets, and tools for AI developers. Its Transformers library and model Hub are among the most widely used open-source infrastructure for AI developers worldwide, hosting millions of models. On AI, Hugging Face builds its own lightweight open-source models such as SmolLM, advancing the open-source ecosystem and AI democratization.