Hugging Face

The strongest public hub for models, datasets, Spaces, open-source research, and fast-moving AI tooling infrastructure.

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Best for: model discoveryBest for: open-source aiBest for: spaces and demos

Publisher Hugging Face

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Pricing Freemium / Usage-based

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Latest tracked change 15 Apr 2026

The April 2026 Hub changelog added Kernels and expanded agent traces, which keeps pushing Hugging Face deeper into agent-friendly infrastructure.

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Still the clearest public home for open-source AI activity.

The April 2026 Hub changelog added Kernels and expanded agent traces, which keeps pushing Hugging Face deeper into agent-friendly infrastructure.

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Website / Hugging Face

Hugging Face added Kernels to the Hub

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The Hub changelog added Kernels as a new way to browse precompiled, hardware-specific kernels and also continues to push agent traces into the product story.

15 Apr 2026 Hugging Face Changelog

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