Hugging Face acts as a model distribution hub

Hugging Face serves as the central Git-based repository for over 1.2 million open-source machine learning models and datasets.

The platform functions as the primary infrastructure for the global AI community: hosting weights for industry leaders like Meta (Llama 3) and Mistral. Developers use the hub to manage version control for 200,000+ datasets and deploy models via the Transformers library. This ecosystem supports seamless integration across PyTorch and TensorFlow, offering features like Model Cards (for documentation) and Spaces (for live demos). By standardizing how weights are shared and accessed, Hugging Face eliminates the friction of moving from research to production.

https://huggingface.co/models