Hugging Face

Hugging Face is a French company that develops and operates an open-source platform for natural language processing and deep learning . Its core offering includes the widely-used Transformers library, which supports loading most mainstream pre-trained models, as well as tools for model training, data preprocessing, and model conversion . The platform has become a central distribution hub for AI models: Chinese firms such as Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Manycore Tech have released models directly on Hugging Face , and Jina AI's open-source vector model topped the platform's trending list upon release in 2023 . The company also develops production deployment tools like Text Generation Inference (TGI), a Rust-and-Python framework for serving large language models . As of late 2023, it was reported to have raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation .