Hugging Face is an artificial intelligence company and open-source community working to advance and democratize AI through open science. Its platform helps machine-learning practitioners discover, build, share, and collaborate on models, datasets, and applications. Users can browse a large collection of resources, explore interactive AI applications called Spaces, and publish work to develop their professional profile. Hugging Face supports a range of modalities, including text, images, video, audio, and 3D.

The company also develops open-source tools for building and deploying machine-learning systems. Its projects include Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, Safetensors, and libraries for model training, fine-tuning, and inference. For organizations, Hugging Face offers team and enterprise plans with features such as access controls, single sign-on, private datasets, and dedicated support. Paid infrastructure services include Inference Providers, which connect users to models through a unified API, and Inference Endpoints and GPU compute for deploying applications and running workloads. Its platform is used by a broad community of individuals, teams, and organizations.