Hugging Face Nears 3M Public Models and 1M Datasets

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-06-23 · Open on X

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator boosts a post saying Hugging Face is about to pass 3 million public models and 1 million public datasets. It shows how fast the open-source AI ecosystem is growing and points to Hugging Face as the main place to find open models and datasets.

Key points

• Hugging Face is close to 3M public models and 1M public datasets (June 2026).
• Open-source AI is growing quickly, and Hugging Face is the central place to find open models and datasets.
• For learners, Hugging Face is the default place to find open models to try, fine-tune or deploy.

Resources mentioned

• Hugging Face · website · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Platform for hosting and finding ML models, datasets and papers. The quoted post says LocateAnything was trending there.
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