Overview
Open-source AI platform company and host of the model hub. In robotics, Hugging Face develops LeRobot, the open-source robot-learning framework that hosts and runs VLA models (pi0, GR00T N1.5) along with datasets, simulation environments, and training tooling. The de facto open hub for robotics Foundation models.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founded
HQ
Business
Robotics role
LeRobot dataset
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
3
Web sources
6
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Partnerships
Every company Hugging Face has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 2Pollen Robotics1× joint3 total
Most recent
- with NVIDIAjust announced
- Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics2025-04-14with Pollen Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Thomas Wolf Co-Founder, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officersecondary-verified
- Clement Delangue Co-Founder, Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Julien Chaumond Co-Founder, Co-Founder & CTOsecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Clement Delanguecofounder
- Julien Chaumondcofounder
- Thomas Wolfcofounder
Former / Previously (2)
- Rémi Cadène Research Scientist, Robotics (LeRobot), Founder of LeRobotsecondary-verified
- Simon Alibert Co-founder of LeRobotsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Hugging Face.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Brains developed (2)
Recent coverage
Hugging Face in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced · 1 ended
Every company Hugging Face has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with NVIDIAjust announced
- Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics2025-04-14with Pollen Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 2Pollen Robotics1× joint3 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology2026-07-08announcedjust announced
- other2025-04-14concludedoperating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Hugging Face’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipNVIDIA x Hugging Face (Isaac stack for LeRobot)
2026-07-08NVIDIA and Hugging Face collaboration to bring NVIDIA's Isaac stack to LeRobot, Hugging Face's open robotics library. Includes Isaac GROOT 1.7 (VLA foundation model for humanoids, claimed first open and commercially viable), Isaac Teleop (standardized data collection framework), 350k+ trajectories and 57M grasps dataset, Isaac Sim/Lab simulation, Isaac Lab-Arena in LeRobot EnvHub, and Jetson Thor deployment on Reachy 2 humanoid. NVIDIA Cosmos 3 (frontier world model) coming soon.
PartnershipHugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics
2025-04-14Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025, bringing the open-source Reachy 2 humanoid robot into its portfolio. Hugging Face now sells Reachy 2 and Reachy Mini robots directly, combining its AI platform with Pollen's hardware.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdMay 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (11)
- Hugging Face Blog: LeRobot v0.4.0 release · https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-release-v040
- Hugging Face Docs: pi0 on LeRobot · https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/pi0
- Hugging Face platform · https://huggingface.co/
- https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition
- https://huggingface.co/blog/reachy-mini
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-face-opens-up-orders-for-its-reachy-mini-desktop-robots/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/hugging-face-launches-reachy-mini-robot-as-embodied-ai-platform/
- https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/hugging-face-acquires-pollen-robotics-launches-reachy-2-robot-for-open-source-research/
- https://venturebeat.com/technology/the-app-store-for-robots-has-arrived-hugging-face-launches-open-source-reachy-mini-app-store-with-200-apps
- https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/hugging-face-reachy/
- https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/en/reachy2
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Methodology: Verified · 11 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- model-repository
- Model repository
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 2
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Hugging Face.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Hugging Face from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not…
OpenAI Says It Could Have Reacted Sooner to Prevent AI Hack of Hugging Face
OpenAI could have reacted sooner to prevent an inadvertent hack that its artificial intelligence models carried out on Hugging Face Inc., the company said in a report Wednesday.
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical…
Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern
Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date…
Hugging Face Approached For Acquisition At $13B Valuation, Report Says
Hugging Face has been approached about a potential sale at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported, though no deal has been reached and it remains unclear…
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and…
Hugging Face Draws Acquisition Interest At $13 Billion Valuation
Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform for sharing, testing and deploying models, is exploring a potential sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, according to…
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s attorney general announced an investigation…
Hugging Face explores sale at $13 billion valuation, nearly triple its 2023 value
Hugging Face is exploring a potential sale at a valuation of $13 billion or more, nearly three times what the AI startup was worth just three years ago. “Hugging Face has been…
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts…
Top Tech News Today, August 24, 2026: Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Hugging Face, Nvidia, XPeng & More
It’s Monday, August 24, 2026, and the tech world is moving faster than a humanoid robot clocking a sub-Bolt 100-meter dash. From record-smashing machines in Beijing and…
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Video
As government scrutiny over Anthropic's Mythos AI model takes center stage in the public debate over AI's national security concerns, Hugging Face CEO Clem Dela
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Hugging Face against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
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Analysis
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Last computed: Aug 26, 2026