Hugging Face

Hugging Face is an AI community and software development company founded in 2016, headquartered in the United States with a significant presence in France. It aims to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science, employing 200 to 300 people across 41 countries. The organization is best known for creating widely used open-source libraries including Transformers, Datasets, Diffusers, and LeRobot, the latter providing end-to-end learning tools for robotics. Its robotics efforts include Vision-Language-Action models such as SmolVLA and support for teleoperation hardware like the SO-101 leader arm.