Hugging Face is a privately owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 2016, it employs approximately 250 people. The company develops tools for building applications using machine learning, notably its transformers library designed for natural language processing applications and a platform enabling users to share machine learning models and datasets.
On February 21, 2026, Dr. Margaret Mitchel, chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face, called for AI companies to use their technology to trace generative AI content back to original creators, advocating for compensation for individuals whose online posts have been used to train AI models. This follows the announcement on February 20 that Georgi Gerganov and the GGML team, creators of Llama.cpp, joined Hugging Face. The move aims to scale and support the community behind ggml and llama.cpp, ensuring continued progress in local AI.
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