Hugging Face

Hugging Face is the central hub of the open-source AI community, hosting 750,000+ models, 150,000+ datasets, and 250,000+ demo applications (Spaces) that researchers and developers share freely. Its Transformers library has become the standard Python library for working with LLMs and other AI models. Researchers, developers, and AI practitioners use Hugging Face to discover and download models, share their own research, run demos of AI capabilities without coding, and access state-of-the-art models via inference API. Every major AI research lab publishes models on Hugging Face. Hugging Face has become the GitHub for AI models, establishing itself as the infrastructure layer that connects AI research with practical application. Its open approach to model sharing has been instrumental in the democratization of AI capabilities beyond the largest tech companies.