Community GPU Grants
Provides AI builders with in-kind compute to run demanding model training and demonstration projects.
Hugging Face Community GPU Grants are an in-kind compute programme operated by Hugging Face, the open-source AI company and model-hosting platform that hosts over one million public models, datasets, and Spaces on huggingface.co. The programme awards free GPU hardware upgrades directly to qualifying Spaces, enabling researchers, developers, and organizations to run compute-intensive machine learni…
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