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We Raised $100 Million for Open & Collaborative Machine Learning 🚀

$100M. That's what Hugging Face just raised to democratize machine learning.

Reporting by Hugging Face Blog 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Hugging Face's Series C signals massive investor confidence in open-source AI infrastructure as the foundational layer for enterprise ML adoption. This positions the company as critical infrastructure rather than just a model hub.

The key facts

4 to know

  1. Hugging Face raised $100M in Series C funding

  2. Focus on open and collaborative machine learning infrastructure

  3. May 2022 announcement date

  4. Signals market validation for open-source AI platforms

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