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Hugging Face, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded2016; 10 years ago (2016)
Headquarters
Manhattan, New York City
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Clément Delangue (CEO)
  • Julien Chaumond (CTO)
  • Thomas Wolf (CSO)
RevenueIncrease US$15 million (2022)
Number of employees
250[1] (2025)
Websitehuggingface.co

Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Hugging Face's transformers library is built for natural language processing applications. The Hugging Face platform allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work.

History

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Founding

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The company was founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in New York City, originally as a company that developed a chatbot app targeted at teenagers. The company was named after the U+1F917 🤗 HUGGING FACE emoji.[2] After open sourcing the model behind the chatbot, the company pivoted to focus on being a platform for machine learning.

AI boom

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On April 28, 2021, the company launched the BigScience Research Workshop in collaboration with several other research groups to release an open large language model.[3] In 2022, the workshop concluded with the announcement of BLOOM, a multilingual large language model with 176 billion parameters.[4][5]

Clément Delangue in 2023

In February 2023, the company announced partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which would allow Hugging Face's products to be available to AWS customers to use them as the building blocks for their custom applications. The company also said the next generation of BLOOM will be run on Trainium, a proprietary machine learning chip created by AWS.[6][7][8]

Thomas Wolf in 2024

In June 2024, the company announced, along with Meta and Scaleway, their launch of a new AI accelerator program for European startups. The initiative aimed to help startups integrate open foundation models into their products, accelerating the EU AI ecosystem.[9] The program, based at Station F in Paris, ran from September 2024 to February 2025. Selected startups benefited from expert mentoring and gained access to AI models, tools, and Scaleway’s powerful computing capabilities.[10]

On September 23, 2024, to further the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, Hugging Face teamed up with Meta and UNESCO to launch a new online language translator.[11] It was built on Meta's No Language Left Behind open-source AI model, enabling free text translation across 200 languages, including many low-resource languages.[12]

In April 2025, Hugging Face announced that they acquired a humanoid robotics startup, Pollen Robotics, based in France and founded by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet in 2016.[13][14] In an X tweet, Delangue shared his vision to "make Artificial Intelligence robotics Open Source".[15]

Cyberattacks

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In early 2026, hackers hijacked the Hugging Face platform to launch Android-targeted attacks involving "powerful malware" which could completely take over a compromised target.[16]

In July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed a cyberattack by autonomous AI agents. OpenAI then explained that two of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, had escaped their sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face servers using exposed credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities in order to find answers to the benchmark ExploitGym from a database.[17] Hugging Face attempted to mitigate the security breach using American proprietary frontier models, but the models' AI safety features rejected Hugging Face's requests, after which Hugging Face used a self-hosted instance of GLM-5.2 (an open-weights model developed by Chinese AI firm Z.ai) to contain the attack.[18][19][20]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Palazzolo, Stephanie (February 5, 2025). "Hugging Face Lays Off 4% of Staff". The Information.
  2. ↑ Dillet, Romain (March 9, 2017). "Hugging Face wants to become your artificial BFF". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on September 25, 2022. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  3. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (January 10, 2022). "Inside BigScience, the quest to build a powerful open language model". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  4. ↑ "BLOOM". bigscience.huggingface.co (Blog). Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  5. ↑ Heikkllä, Melissa (July 12, 2022). "Inside a radical new project to democratize AI". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  6. ↑ Bass, Dina (February 21, 2023). "Amazon's Cloud Unit Partners With Startup Hugging Face as AI Deals Heat Up". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on May 22, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  7. ↑ Nellis, Stephen (February 21, 2023). "Amazon Web Services pairs with Hugging Face to target AI developers". Reuters. Archived from the original on May 30, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  8. ↑ Amazon Web Services (February 21, 2023). "AWS and Hugging Face collaborate to make generative AI more accessible and cost efficient". AWS Machine Learning Blog (Blog). Amazon. Archived from the original on August 25, 2023. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Ecosystem for AI innovation in Europe | Shaping Europe's digital future". digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved July 6, 2026.
  10. ↑ Zacks Equity Research (June 25, 2024). "META Collaboration Launches AI Accelerator for European Startups". Yahoo Finance. Archived from the original on July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  11. ↑ "NLLB: UNESCO Language Translator". Spaces. Hugging Face. September 23, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  12. ↑ "UNESCO Language Translator powered by Meta and Hugging Face Launching Event". UNESCO. Archived from the original on February 8, 2026. Retrieved February 8, 2026.
  13. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (April 14, 2025). "Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  14. ↑ Koetsier, John (April 14, 2025). "Open Source Humanoid Robots That You Can 3D Print Yourself: Hugging Face Buys Pollen Robotics". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  15. ↑ Knight, Will (April 14, 2025). "An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on April 14, 2025. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  16. ↑ Fadilpašić, Sead (January 30, 2026). "Hugging Face platform hijacked to send out Android malware - here's what we know so far". TechRadar Pro. Archived from the original on January 30, 2026. Retrieved February 8, 2026.
  17. ↑ Kahn, Jeremy; Forlini, Emily. "OpenAI says its AI models escaped from a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation". Fortune. Retrieved July 21, 2026.
  18. ↑ Soni, Aditya; Singh, Jaspreet (July 22, 2026). "Chinese AI's role in stopping rogue OpenAI agent shows cost of US guardrails". Reuters. Retrieved July 23, 2026.
  19. ↑ Goudarzi, Sara (July 23, 2026). "What the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident reveals about US-China AI interdependence". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved July 23, 2026.
  20. ↑ Shen, Xinmei (July 22, 2026). "China's Zhipu AI model contains hack after OpenAI models go rogue". South China Morning Post. Retrieved July 23, 2026.
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