Hugging Face

American machine learning company Hugging Face, Inc.TypePrivateIndustryArtificial intelligenceFounded2016; 10 years ago (2016)Headquarters 20 Jay Street Brooklyn, New York CityArea servedWorldwideKey peopleClément Delangue (CEO)Julien Chaumond (CTO)Thomas Wolf (CSO)Revenue US$150 million (2025)Number of employees250 (2025)ParentNvidiaWebsitehuggingface.co Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Hugging Face's Transformers library is built for natural language processing applications. The Hugging Face platform allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work. Hugging Face, Inc. was acquired by Nvidia in August 2026. History Founding The company was founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in New York City, originally as a company that developed a chatbot app targeted at teenagers. The company was named after the U+1F917 🤗 HUGGING FACE emoji. After open sourcing the model behind the chatbot, the company pivoted to focus on being a platform for machine learning.[citation needed] AI boom On A