---
title: "Hugging Face: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: ", 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."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-hugging-face
type: Organization
wikidata: Q108943604
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face
website: https://huggingface.co/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Hugging Face

> , 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.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: France
- Founded: 2016-01-01
- Headquarters: Paris
- Status: private
- Website: https://huggingface.co/
- Employees: 250 (as of 2025-02-01)

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/huggingface
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/huggingface
- github: https://github.com/huggingface
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHlNU7kIZhRgSbhHvFoy72w

## Key people

- Thomas Wolf, founder (physicist, lawyer and computer scientist; natural language processing researcher; researcher, Hugging Face)
- Clement Delangue, founder (French data scientist)
- Julien Chaumond, founder (French mathematician, chief technology officer of Hugging Face)
- Margaret Mitchell (researcher, natural language processing)

## Revenue

- 2022-01-01: USD 15 million (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: [Hugging Face SAS](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-hugging-face-sas.md)

## Products

- Hugging Face Hub

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Hugging Face, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-hugging-face#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108943604, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face

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