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Hugging Face

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Hub for open models, datasets and ML demos.

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CategoryAPIs & Model Platforms
Websitehuggingface.co
StatusEstablished tool
Alternatives6 on PickAI

What is Hugging Face?

Hugging Face is an AI tool in the APIs & Model Platforms category on PickAI. Hub for open models, datasets and ML demos. Model APIs and infra to build AI products.

Who is Hugging Face for?

Hugging Face is a good fit for developers building AI features into their own products. If you are comparing options, look at how it fits your workflow, pricing on the official website, and the alternatives below such as OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Google AI Studio.

Hugging Face in the news

Meta AI Research

Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight multimodal model (42B active) with a 1M-token context window for coding and agents. Weights are on Hugging Face; hosted APIs include OpenRouter, Groq and others, and it can run on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX.

2026-10-15
NVIDIA

NVIDIA ships Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B multimodal model for always-on agents, plus Bolt edge models for local RTX and DGX Spark systems. Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are available now on Hugging Face; Bolt E4B follows Oct. 23.

2026-10-15
Hugging Face

FLUX.3 Image Klein lands in Diffusers

Black Forest Labs' FLUX.3 Image Klein is available in Hugging Face Diffusers for text-to-image, multi-reference image-to-image, and bounding-box layout control. Distilled and base checkpoints ship with LoRA training scripts.

2026-10-15

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