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**Hugging Face** is an open-source AI platform that provides access to AI models that can be downloaded and run locally, serving as the "GitHub of machine learning." The platform has grown over the past eight years together with a community of roughly 10 million users and AI builders. The company has 10,000 customers and more than 50,000 organizations on the platform, with its model hub hosting over 1 million repositories. The platform offers collaborative tools for sharing and deploying machine learning models, democratizing access to cutting-edge AI technology. Hugging Face was launched in Brooklyn in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, originally as a chatbot app targeted at teenagers before pivoting to focus on creating a platform for creating, testing and deploying machine learning. The company has become a unicorn valued at $4.5 billion and continues to lead the open-source AI movement.