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Hugging Face is a freemium, open-source ML platform founded in 2018 that serves as the central hub for model and dataset collaboration. It hosts 2M+ models and 500k+ datasets, and exposes a unified API covering 45,000+ models from leading AI providers. The platform's open-source library ecosystem — including Transformers, Diffusers, PEFT, TRL, Accelerate, Tokenizers, Safetensors, Text Generation Inference, Transformers.js, and smolagents — integrates natively with PyTorch and supports the full ML lifecycle from training to inference. Inference Endpoints provide scalable GPU compute starting at $0.60/hour. Enterprise plans (starting at $20/user/month) add SSO, audit logs, and fine-grained access controls. The platform has 166,982 GitHub stars across its repositories and is used by 50,000+ organizations.
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