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Hugging Face
The leading open-source AI model and dataset hosting platform, hosting over a million machine learning models and serving as critical developer infrastructure across the AI industry, from research labs to Fortune 500 enterprises. Hugging Face's Model Hub hosts over 1 million machine learning models and 250,000 datasets, serving 13 million users across 500,000 organizations (including Intel, Pfizer, and Bloomberg); the company raised approximately $2 billion in a September 2025 round at a €11.7 billion (~$13.5 billion) valuation, bringing total capital raised to roughly $3.2 billion.
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Evidence
3 sources · 68% avg. source confidence
- NVIDIA Newsroom / GTC 2026 coverage — Hugging Face integrates with NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton for sovereign model fine-tuning62% source confidence
- Contrary Research / company data — Hugging Face's Model Hub scales to 13M users and 30%+ of the Fortune 50075% source confidence
- PitchBook / Tracxn funding data — Hugging Face raised at $13.5B valuation, expands into robotics via LeRobot68% source confidence
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Hugging Face's Timeline
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Jan 2016 · Founded
Hugging Face was founded, later becoming the leading open-source AI model and dataset hosting platform.
Sep 2025 · Raises at $13.5B valuation
Hugging Face raised approximately $2 billion at a €11.7 billion (~$13.5 billion) valuation, with its Model Hub scaling to over 1 million models and 13 million users.