Hugging Face is an AI and machine-learning collaboration platform that publishes the open-source Transformers library and hosts a broad ecosystem of pretrained models and datasets. Hugging Face's Twitter Score is 211 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,103 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Hugging Face was co-founded by Clément Delangue as CEO, Julien Chaumond as CTO, and Thomas Wolf as CSO. The platform has grown into a central hub for open-source AI development, with the Transformers library providing widely adopted implementations of transformer architectures and pretrained models across the research and engineering communities.
Hugging Face raised $235 million in a Series D round at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation in August 2023, led by Salesforce Ventures. Additional backers include Sound Ventures, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and IBM. Hugging Face also maintains affiliations with AWS, Meta, and UNESCO.
Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025, with plans to sell the Reachy 2 robot while releasing its code and hardware designs as open source. Hugging Face has 758,677 followers as of August 2026 and has published 14,072 posts. Hugging Face has been mentioned by 731 accounts, with 2,585 total mentions.
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