Definition: Hugging Face

A website for exploring and building machine learning software from Hugging Face, New York. Founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs to develop a chatbot for teenagers, Hugging Face became the leading repository of AI models, training data and cloud computing support.

Using Git-based code repositories and version control, Hugging Face hosts thousands of language models and training datasets, along with libraries and documentation. It also offers cloud-based inference computing by the hour. Hugging Face is the GitHub for AI. See AI model and GitHub.

This Is a Hugging Face

There had to be a reason for the unusual name, and there was. The name of the company was taken from the hugging face emoji.