Hugging Face is an artificial intelligence company and community platform focused on advancing and democratizing AI through open source and open science. It brings machine learning practitioners together to create, discover, share, and collaborate on models, datasets, and applications. The Hugging Face Hub hosts a large collection of resources across text, image, video, audio, and 3D, alongside interactive applications known as Spaces.

The company develops open-source tools for building and deploying machine learning systems, including Transformers, Diffusers, Tokenizers, Datasets, Safetensors, and libraries for training, fine-tuning, and creating AI agents. Its services also help organizations access models through a unified API, run computing workloads, and deploy applications on optimized Inference Endpoints. For businesses, Hugging Face offers enterprise plans with features such as access controls, single sign-on, private dataset viewing, priority support, and dedicated assistance. Individuals and teams can use the platform to publish projects, build a professional profile, and participate in a global AI community.