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Hugging Face

Open-source ML platform hosting models, datasets, and Spaces

AI InfrastructureFounded January 2016#1 of 54 in AI Infrastructure

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Research as of
Metric
+25.7%Hacker News mentions
Measured values
328 vs 261Jul 12 vs Jun 12
Sources
2 sourcesHacker News Algolia API + KDnuggets · as of July 13, 2026
Cited source
KDnuggetsGetting Started with Hugging Face ML Intern: Your First ML Agent · Jul 6

In KDnuggets' "Getting Started with Hugging Face ML Intern: Your First ML Agent" as background, Hugging Face's Hacker News mentions increased 25.7% over the last 30 days, with Hacker News Algolia API data through Jul 12.

What this does not prove: Does not distinguish positive from negative attention and reflects Hacker News audience bias.

Metric receipt (2 sources)

Measured public metric

Cited source

  • KDnuggets: Getting Started with Hugging Face ML Intern: Your First ML Agent · July 6, 2026
Metric
Hacker News mentions
Observed window
Last 30 days (2026-06-12 to 2026-07-12)
Comparison
Compared with the prior reading
Start value
261 on 2026-06-12
End value
328 on 2026-07-12
Calculation
((328 - 261) / 261) * 100 = +25.7%
Relationship
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Company profile

What is Hugging Face?

Hugging Face is the leading open-source platform for machine learning, hosting over 1 million models, datasets, and demo applications (Spaces). Its Transformers library is the most widely used Python package for working with LLMs.

Latest company data

Metric dates vary by source

Metric dates
npm downloads
PyPI downloads
npm dependents
PyPI dependents
GitHub stars
Hacker News mentions

Key metric

Package downloads (30d)

164.7M/30d

npm
1.5M
PyPI
163.1M

Tracked packages: npm @huggingface/inference; PyPI transformers

▲ +4%

Additional metrics

3 metrics

Metric

Dependent projects

11.6K

npm
315
PyPI
11.2K

Projects depending on tracked packages: npm @huggingface/inference; PyPI transformers

Metric

GitHub stars

162.6K

Main repository stars

Metric

Hacker News

328/30d

Position #2 in category discussion

Repository health

Maintenance data from the main open-source repository.

OpenSSF Scorecard
6.4
Key-person risk
4
External contributors
39
% of recent contributors outside the core team
Releases (30d)
0

Repository usage

Public repositories and source files importing packages tied to Hugging Face.

Repos importing
33.0K0%

Hiring mentions

Mentions of Hugging Face in recent Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.

Hiring mentions (monthly)
8

About Hugging Face

Hugging Face is the leading open-source platform for machine learning, hosting over 1 million models, datasets, and demo applications (Spaces). Its Transformers library is the most widely used Python package for working with LLMs.

FoundersClément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf

Disclosed funding

Disclosed $394M · 5 rounds

Disclosed funding records total $394M. Category position #1 of 54 in AI Infrastructure.

Series D2023

Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners

$235M
Series C2022

Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital

$100M
Series B2021

Addition

$40M
Series A2019

Lux Capital

$15M
Seed2018

Betaworks

$4M

Investors

AdditionBetaworksLightspeed Venture PartnersLux CapitalSequoia Capital

Tracked packages (2)

1 npm, 1 PyPI

@huggingface/inference

npmMain npm package

@huggingface/inference

A no-code solution for automatically training and fine-tuning machine learning models for various tasks.

transformers

PyPIMain PyPI package

transformers

A no-code solution for automatically training and fine-tuning machine learning models for various tasks.