Meta × Hugging Face × Scaleway AI Startup Program

Meta × Hugging Face × Scaleway AI Startup Program

Offers a residency accelerator for European open-source AI startups with compute, mentorship, and platform access.

Eligibility · United States, France

The Meta × Hugging Face × Scaleway AI Startup Program was a one-off 13-month residency accelerator co-led by Meta, Hugging Face, and Scaleway, hosted at STATION F in Paris. The sole disclosed cohort comprised five European AI startups focused on open-source AI, with applications closing 1 December 2023, the programme running January 2024, and concluding in February 2025. Participants received compute resources via Scaleway's cloud infrastructure, access to the Hugging Face Hub and its open-source model platform, exposure to Meta's open-source AI ecosystem including Llama, physical workspace at STATION F, and mentorship from all three co-leading organisations.

Eligibility for the disclosed cohort was limited to European AI startups working on open-source artificial intelligence — a tight qualification that positioned the programme as a specialist resource rather than a broadly accessible accelerator. Cohort size was five teams. No cash grant or equity investment amounts were publicly disclosed; the primary benefits were in-kind compute, platform access, workspace, and network.

As of May 2026, no 2026 cohort has been announced on huggingface.co, the STATION F website, or Meta's newsroom. The programme has been characterized as a one-shot initiative rather than an annual commitment, and the catalogue currently classifies it as wound down. Teams interested in equivalent support should monitor the individual programmes of all three partners — Scaleway's compute grant programme, Hugging Face's community GPU grants via Spaces, and Meta's AI partnership initiatives — for future collaboration opportunities that may be structured differently from the 2024 cohort model.