Hugging Face

In short: Hugging Face is a platform where models, datasets and demos are shared. It is regarded as the “GitHub of AI”.

In more detail: Each model has a page with description (model card), files, licence, download counts and likes. An open interface delivers this data in machine-readable form.

Our context: The AI speed calculator adds new models automatically from this interface, with filters: no fine-tunes or quantisations by others, at least 150 likes, not too old.

In Depth

• Safetensors: safe format for weights without executable code.
• Transformers: the best-known Python library.
• Spaces: small web demos.
• Note: Models from third parties are not a quality verdict. Watch licence and origin.

See also: GGUF and llama.cpp, Open models and their licences