Hugging Face

Provides global AI compute and GPU support for builders through community channels and a public application process.

Hugging Face is a US private AI and machine learning platform company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Manhattan, New York City. Its mission is to democratize machine learning through an open-source model and dataset hub, hosted inference, and community tools for researchers and developers. The company operates primarily as a commercial SaaS and PaaS provider, so its public support is aimed at platform adoption as much as at funding.

Its first-party support routes are in kind rather than cash. Hugging Face for Startups offers credits worth up to $100,000. Community GPU Grants provides ZeroGPU or A10G hardware on a rolling basis for public Spaces, with a strong preference for academic work, open-source community demos, and projects showing traction. The Meta x Hugging Face x Scaleway AI Startup Program is another credits-based route.

That mix makes Hugging Face especially relevant for teams building models, datasets, or demos on the platform. The grants are tied to platform use, public visibility, and technical usefulness, and the company does not offer cash awards or fixed annual grant rounds.