# Hugging Face

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: HuggingFace, Hugging Face Hub, HF, huggingface.co, Hugging Phase

A platform where the [machine learning](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/ai) community [shares](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/equity) [AI models](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model), datasets and [demo](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prototype) apps. [Developers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) go there to find and download models whose [weights](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/weights) are public. It is a model hub.

**For example:** A [developer](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) looking for a [speech-to-text](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/speech-to-text) model that can run on company [hardware](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech) searches Hugging Face and downloads one.

Official site: <https://huggingface.co>

## Connects to (6)

- [Open source vs open weights](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/open-source-vs-open-weights): Two labels for AI models that people often mix up.
- [Weights](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/weights): The numbers inside a model that it learned during training.
- [Local model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/local-model): A model that is downloaded and run on a person's own computer or a company's own servers, not on a provider's.
- [Model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model): The trained system at the center of an AI product.
- [Open source](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/open-source): Software whose code is published for anyone to read, use and build on, under a license that sets the rules for doing so.
- [Model Garden](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model-garden): A catalog in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, formerly Vertex AI, where teams find and deploy AI models from Google and…

## Follow

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/huggingface)
- [X](https://twitter.com/huggingface)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface)


Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hugging-face