<s>
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
is	O
an	O
American	O
company	O
that	O
develops	O
tools	O
for	O
building	O
applications	O
using	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
most	O
notable	O
for	O
its	O
transformers	B-Algorithm
library	B-Library
built	O
for	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
applications	O
and	O
its	O
platform	O
that	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
share	O
machine	O
learning	O
models	O
and	O
datasets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2016	O
by	O
French	O
entrepreneurs	O
Clément	O
Delangue	O
,	O
Julien	O
Chaumond	O
,	O
and	O
Thomas	O
Wolf	O
originally	O
as	O
a	O
company	O
that	O
developed	O
a	O
chatbot	B-Application
app	O
targeted	O
at	O
teenagers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
open-sourcing	B-Application
the	O
model	O
behind	O
the	O
chatbot	B-Application
,	O
the	O
company	O
pivoted	O
to	O
focus	O
on	O
being	O
a	O
platform	O
for	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2021	O
,	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
raised	O
$40	O
million	O
in	O
a	O
Series	O
B	O
funding	O
round	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
workshop	O
concluded	O
with	O
the	O
announcement	O
of	O
BLOOM	B-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
multilingual	O
large	O
language	O
model	O
with	O
176	O
billion	O
parameters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
December	O
21	O
,	O
2021	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
its	O
acquisition	O
of	O
Gradio	O
,	O
a	O
software	B-Library
library	I-Library
used	O
to	O
make	O
interactive	O
browser	B-Application
demos	O
of	O
machine	O
learning	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
May	O
26	O
,	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
a	O
partnership	O
with	O
Graphcore	O
to	O
optimize	O
its	O
Transformers	B-Algorithm
library	B-Library
for	O
the	O
Graphcore	O
IPU	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
August	O
3	O
,	O
2022	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
the	O
Private	O
Hub	O
,	O
an	O
enterprise	O
version	O
of	O
its	O
public	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
Hub	O
that	O
supports	O
SaaS	B-Architecture
or	O
on-premise	B-General_Concept
deployment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2023	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
partnership	O
with	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
(	O
AWS	B-Application
)	O
which	O
would	O
allow	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
's	O
products	O
available	O
to	O
AWS	B-Application
customers	O
to	O
use	O
them	O
as	O
the	O
building	O
blocks	O
for	O
their	O
custom	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
also	O
said	O
the	O
next	O
generation	O
of	O
BLOOM	B-General_Concept
will	O
be	O
run	O
on	O
Trainium	O
,	O
a	O
proprietary	O
machine	O
learning	O
chip	O
created	O
by	O
AWS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Transformers	B-Algorithm
library	B-Library
is	O
a	O
Python	B-Language
package	O
that	O
contains	O
open-source	B-Application
implementations	O
of	O
transformer	B-Algorithm
models	I-Algorithm
for	O
text	O
,	O
image	O
,	O
and	O
audio	O
tasks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
compatible	O
with	O
the	O
PyTorch	B-Algorithm
,	O
TensorFlow	B-Language
and	O
JAX	B-Application
deep	B-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
libraries	O
and	O
includes	O
implementations	O
of	O
notable	O
models	O
like	O
BERT	B-General_Concept
and	O
GPT	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
library	B-Library
was	O
originally	O
called	O
"	O
pytorch-pretrained-bert	O
"	O
which	O
was	O
then	O
renamed	O
to	O
"	O
pytorch-transformers	O
"	O
and	O
finally	O
"	O
transformers.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
Hub	O
is	O
a	O
platform	O
where	O
users	O
can	O
share	O
pre-trained	O
models	O
,	O
datasets	O
,	O
and	O
demos	O
of	O
machine	O
learning	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hub	O
contains	O
GitHub-inspired	O
features	O
for	O
code-sharing	O
and	O
collaboration	O
,	O
including	O
discussions	O
and	O
pull	O
requests	O
for	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
hosts	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
Spaces	O
,	O
a	O
hosted	O
service	O
that	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
build	O
web-based	O
demos	O
of	O
machine	O
learning	O
apps	O
using	O
the	O
Gradio	O
or	O
Streamlit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
Transformers	B-Algorithm
and	O
the	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
Hub	O
,	O
the	O
Hugging	B-Application
Face	I-Application
ecosystem	O
contains	O
libraries	O
for	O
other	O
tasks	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
dataset	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
(	O
"	O
Datasets	O
"	O
)	O
,	O
model	O
evaluation	O
(	O
"	O
Evaluate	O
"	O
)	O
,	O
simulation	O
(	O
"	O
Simulate	O
"	O
)	O
,	O
machine	O
learning	O
demos	O
(	O
"	O
Gradio	O
"	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
