Series D · AI & Machine Learning · Paris, France · Founded 2016 · 200–300 employees
Hugging Face is a Paris-based AI company providing an open-source platform for sharing and developing machine learning models, datasets, and applications, hosting over 1.5 million models and 340,000 datasets; founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, it has become a central hub for AI developers worldwide, raising $235 million in a Series D funding round in August 2023, valuing the company at $4.5 billion, with investors including Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, and Salesforce.