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
Business
Robotics role
LeRobot dataset
Nvidia acquisition
Annual revenue
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
- 1NVIDIA2× joint1114 total
- 2Pollen Robotics1× joint3 total
Most recent
- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face2026-08-26with NVIDIAjust announced
- 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
Mentioned on (34)
Registry pages whose text names Hugging Face.
Companies (10)
Novita AI, Pollen Robotics, DeepInfra, Scaleway, RunPod, Black Forest Labs, Weights & Biases, Tau Robotics, Nomic AI, UMA
Robots and products (3)
AI systems (11)
NVIDIA Alpamayo, FLUX 3 Action, LeRobot, RDT-1B, pi0.5 (pi-0.5), NVIDIA Cosmos, V-JEPA 2, SmolVLA, OpenVLA, pi0 (and pi0.5), GR00T N1 (Isaac GR00T)
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- acquired
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 1 operating · 2 just announced · 1 ended
Every company Hugging Face has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face2026-08-26with NVIDIAjust announced
- with NVIDIAjust announced
- Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics2025-04-14with Pollen Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA2× joint1114 total
- 2Pollen Robotics1× joint3 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- investment2026-08-26announcedjust announced
- 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 2026-10-09
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-09
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.
Nvidia defends open source AI alliance, saying hundreds and hundreds of companies being vetted
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Physical AI’s Platform Wars Heat Up
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Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month
Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: what the Apache 2.0 license guarantees
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri 1 on 3 October 2026, German Unity Day: a mixture-of-experts language model whose full weights can be downloaded from Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0…
Aleph Alpha’s Sovereign A.I. Model Kolibri Is No Match for the Open-Weight Leaders
Small, fast and German: With Kolibri, Aleph Alpha wants to prove that Europe can still build its own A.I. models. The Heidelberg-based A.I. company has just released the model,…
Aleph Alphas souveränes KI-Modell Kolibri hat keine Chance gegen Open-Weight-Spitze
Klein, schnell und deutsch: Mit Kolibri will Aleph Alpha beweisen, dass Europa noch eigene KI-Modelle bauen kann. Das Heidelberger KI-Unternehmen hat das Modell soeben, passend…
OpenAI alerts 100+ organizations over rogue AI agent activity after Hugging Face breach
OpenAI has alerted more than 100 organizations about potentially unauthorized activity involving its AI agents, widening a security crisis that began with the company’s accidental…
OpenAI已向100多个机通报AI智能体未经授权活动事件
OpenAI周四在一篇博客文章中表示，该公司已向100多个机构通报了涉及其AI智能体未经授权活动的事件。此举正值AI 实验室因“失控”AI 智能体的活动而面临日益严格的审查之际。在Hugging…
Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models
Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
California attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cyber incidents
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday he served OpenAI with a subpoena as part of a probe into cybersecurity incidents involving the ChatGPT maker. Bonta…
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
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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
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
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.
6-month trend
Analysis
Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Oct 11, 2026