Hugging Face, Inc. is a Franco-American company that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning.

[5][6] In December 2022, the company acquired Gradio, an open source library built for developing machine learning applications in Python.

The company also said the next generation of BLOOM will be run on Trainium, a proprietary machine learning chip created by AWS.

The funding was led by Salesforce, and notable participation came from Google, Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, IBM, and Qualcomm.

It is compatible with the PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX deep learning libraries and includes implementations of notable models like BERT and GPT-2.