What is Hugging Face? How the AI community works

Hugging Face is one of many new AI communities. If you’re wondering how it works and what it’s all about, you’ve come to the right place

What’s behind the Hugging Face community

Along with the huge success that artificial intelligence is currently experiencing worldwide, more and more communities are also forming around the technology. Together, they aim to get the most out of this groundbreaking technology.

• The name comes from the company Hugging Face, which is also working on such technologies.

• A Hugging Face community consists of developers, researchers and enthusiasts. Together they work on the development and application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning.

• The community has a large online presence and includes various forums, discussion groups and social media platforms. There, members can exchange ideas, share code, solve problems and collaborate to advance NLP technology.

• The company Hugging Face offers, among other things, tools, libraries and frameworks based on NLP models. These have been used, for example, to develop Transformer-based language models such as GPT-3. GPT-3 is the model on which the well-known text-to-text generator ChatGPT is based.