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 222 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #1,938 (top 0.5%) among 493,668 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 810,786 followers as of October 2026 and has published 14,286 posts. Hugging Face has been mentioned by 956 accounts, with 3,209 total mentions.
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