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Hugging Face

Community-driven platform for ML models

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201-500 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Deep Tech
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • Community
Dumbo, NY

Company mission

Hugging Face is on a mission to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time.

Top investors

Few candidates hear
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36% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Large language models, which recognize and generate text, are already being used to auto-complete sentences, power chat bots, moderate content, summarize news articles, and translate text online. However, many of these advances are happening behind closed doors, stifling innovation and raising ethicacy concerns.

To combat this, Hugging Face is building the "GitHub of machine learning". It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories, where developers can create, discover and collaborate on ML models, datasets and ML apps. This work led to the creation of BLOOM in 2022, an open-access LLM with similar architecture to OpenAI’s GPT, but that is multilingual by design.

The company also launched the Hugging Chat Assistant, an open-source tool to create personalised chat assistants, in direct competition to OpenAI's paid service ChatGPT Plus. By continually creating value based on a global community, not just for Microsoft or Google, HuggingFace should be able to carve out its own path for success.

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Freddie

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Benefits

  • Growth, Training, & Conferences
  • Equity
  • Health Insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible Work Environment
  • Generous Parental Leave

Company values

  • A strong bias for action and impact
  • A generalist & diverse mindset
  • A decentralized, progressive and nimble approach
  • A kind ambition

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2023

$235m

SERIES D

May 2022

$100m

SERIES C

Total funding: $395.8m

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Leadership

Created Moodstocks, a startup building machine learning for computer vision acquired by Google. Also built Mention where they were head of Product and CMO until the company was acquired by MyNewsDesk.

Former advisor for the Deputy Minister for Digital Affairs in Paris, and Senior engineer for Stupefix app that was acquired by GoPro. Also co-founded and was CTO of Glose.

After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique, they worked on laser-plasma interactions at the BELLA Center of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Also worked as a European Patent Attorney for 5 years.

People progressing

Lysandre started as an intern back in 2019 and now leads our Open Source team!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Hugging Face

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Emily Witko (DEIB and People Generalist)

  • DEIB, at its core, is simply a set of daily practices and behaviors shaped by values that help us understand each other better, respectfully, and with care, despite what we have learned and believe.
  • We are a values-driven organization motivated by a shared mission – good ML. To achieve this mission, we must invest in our people. We must foster a diverse and inclusive culture where employees at every level feel empowered to do their best work, are comfortable speaking up and sharing different perspectives, and are met with a strong sense of belonging. A culture where all employees are recognized and valued for their contributions, awarded ample access to opportunity, and are held accountable for how they show up for each other

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