Hugging Face, Inc. is a privately owned American software development company founded in 2016. Employing approximately 250 people, the company focuses on creating tools for machine learning application development. Its primary offerings include a transformers library specifically designed for natural language processing and a platform facilitating the sharing of machine learning models and datasets among users.
Hugging Face's dataset viewer experienced issues on an unspecified date, showing only previews of rows due to a crashed job manager resulting in a JobManagerCrashedError. On September 18, 2025, Hugging Face announced an update on GitHub regarding RiskRubric.ai, focusing on democratizing AI safety and building trust in the open model ecosystem through standardized risk assessment, noting over 500,000 models are available on the Hugging Face hub. Thomas Wolf, co-founder, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27-29, in San Francisco, discussing open-source initiatives and AI accessibility. Another session at the same event will feature Wolf discussing open and accessible cutting-edge research and models.
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