Hugging Face

The AI community building the future.

5.0•76 reviews•

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The AI community building the future.

5.0•76 reviews•

2.6K followers

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Hugging Face Reviews

The community submitted 76 reviews to tell us what they like about Hugging Face, what Hugging Face can do better, and more.

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"Reviewers largely see Hugging Face as the default hub for open AI work: a strong place to find models, datasets, libraries, and Spaces in one ecosystem. Users praise its openness, broad selection, solid model performance, and the practical reach of Transformers. The main complaint is usability for newcomers, with onboarding and dataset setup feeling confusing. Founder feedback, especially from the makers of Inrō and Resemble AI, reinforces its value for open models, inference endpoints, and easy public demos."

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open source models (14)

AI community (8)

model hub (6)

ease of use (5)

AI model repository (4)

community support (4)

open datasets (4)

collaboration on AI models (3)

inference endpoints (3)

dataset curation (2)

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computationally heavy models (2)

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open source models (14)open datasets (4)AI community (8)

The open-source ethos and sheer depth of the community is the win for me. The fact that so much of the modern AI world converges on one hub models, datasets, spaces, all discoverable in the same place is genuinely impressive. Even as a newcomer you can feel the network effect immediately.

What needs improvement

computationally heavy models (2)

The first-time experience is harder than it needs to be. Terminology assumes prior knowledge, the dataset upload flow has options scattered across multiple screens without clear guidance, and it's not always obvious what the "right" next step is. A proper guided onboarding even just a simple walkthrough the first time you create a dataset or model repo would lower the barrier a lot. I'm clearly not the target user, but I suspect I'm not the only non-ML-specialist trying to use the platform.

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Kaggle

Looked at Kaggle for datasets and briefly considered just keeping things in a GitHub repo. Went with Hugging Face in the end because it's clearly where the ML ecosystem actually lives the integrations, the API, the pull-from-hub workflow in code. Kaggle felt more competition-focused, GitHub felt too generic. HF is the proper home for ML artefacts even if the on-ramp is rough.

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Just had a quick play with it. Truly amazing - I could bounce from asking stupid whimsical questions about the ocean with no sponges to getting reasonable looking code for how to rotate vectors using Euler angles, then asked for a version that uses duals and it correctly recognized I was referring to dual quaternions and provided me an answer for that. Followed that up with a request for a new song and it wrote a slightly cheesy set of lyrics with chord progressions that seemed to more or less work for a love song for guitar after prompting me for instrument and play style ( which I replied with blues and guitar). If this is the future of search, bring it on!

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93 views3yr ago

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✨ As a new profile working in product and operations, I genuinely admire what Hugging Face is building. You've made AI feel more accessible, collaborative, and... actually understandable! I might not write the models, but I can explore, learn, and even imagine use cases thanks to the clarity and openness of your platform. This is exactly the kind of shift that empowers cross-functional teams to innovate together. 🚀 #AIForEveryone #ProductThinking #FutureOfWork

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ease of use (5)AI community (8)collaboration on AI models (3)

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70 views1yr ago

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The models perform well, and the Transformers library is robust, although some models are computationally heavy, which can slow down smaller projects. Still, it’s a solid tool.

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Transformers library (2)

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computationally heavy models (2)

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31 views1yr ago

•5 reviews

HuggingFace has so many models, libraries and datasets. Having access to open, open source and free models and libraries is awesome. So easy to use transformers for so many ML and AI tasks and great for embedding models for Milvus

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ease of use (5)open source models (14)Transformers library (2)model hub (6)

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Hugging Face

The AI community building the future.

The AI community building the future.

Hugging Face Reviews

The community submitted 76 reviews to tell us what they like about Hugging Face, what Hugging Face can do better, and more.

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