Hugging Face is an artificial intelligence company and community platform focused on advancing and democratizing AI through open source and open science. It helps machine learning practitioners create, discover, and collaborate on models, datasets, and applications, supporting work across text, image, video, audio, and 3D. The Hugging Face Hub hosts millions of models, hundreds of thousands of datasets, and AI applications called Spaces, where users can share projects and explore community-built tools.

The company also develops open-source software for machine learning, including Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, Safetensors, and tools for model training, fine-tuning, and deployment. For organizations, Hugging Face offers team and enterprise plans with features such as access controls, private datasets, single sign-on, and dedicated support. Its paid services include compute resources, optimized Inference Endpoints, and a unified API that provides access to models from leading AI providers. Hugging Face serves individual developers, research communities, and businesses seeking tools and infrastructure to build and deploy AI.