AI platform and open-source software company
Hugging Face
Hugging Face runs the Hugging Face Hub, a public host for open model weights, datasets and demo apps, and maintains open-source libraries such as transformers, diffusers, tokenizers and kernels. The ggml and llama.cpp projects joined the company, which also sells Inference Endpoints, storage and enterprise plans.
Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026
Facts at a glance
| Type | AI model hub and open-source machine learning software company |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Main libraries | transformers, diffusers, tokenizers, kernels, TRL source |
| Local inference projects | ggml and llama.cpp, which joined Hugging Face source |
| Commercial products | Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers, Storage Buckets, Team and Enterprise plans source |
Questions people ask
- What is the Hugging Face Hub?
- A public platform where developers publish and download model weights, datasets and demo apps. Most open-weight model releases, including those from NVIDIA, Xiaomi and Alibaba's Qwen team, are published there.
- Does Hugging Face own llama.cpp?
- Hugging Face says the ggml and llama.cpp projects joined the company. llama.cpp remains an open-source project on GitHub.