Hugging Face is a service that makes it easy for developers to share machine learning and artificial intelligence models, as well as datasets through it. Founded in 2016, its popularity has grown since the explosion of artificial intelligence.
Various companies use Hugging Face to share AI models in open source form. In addition to software, Hugging Face last year also acquired a robotics company to further strengthen their portfolio. Recently, Hugging Face's name was also mentioned by many when OpenAI's AI agent hacked the service.
Most recently, it was reported that Hugging Face is considering being sold at a value of $13 billion, and has begun looking for a new owner for it. At the moment, it is not known who will acquire Hugging Face. With Stripe's recent purchase of OpenRouter, it is expected that Hugging Face will also receive high demand, in line with the explosion of the artificial intelligence arena.
