---
name: Hugging Face
domain: huggingface.co
kind: product
relation: dependency
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.56
---

# Hugging Face

A platform hosting machine learning models, datasets, and applications for AI developers and researchers.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → dependency to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Vercel's AI SDK and agentic workloads rely on hosted models and inference endpoints that Hugging Face provides as infrastructure.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> The platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications

> Deploy on optimized Inference Endpoints or update your Spaces applications to a GPU in a few clicks

> 45,000+ models from leading AI providers through a single, unified API

**Edges:**

- competitor [[northflank-com]]
- discusses [[discuss-huggingface-co]]
- competitor [[siliconflow-com]]
- competitor [[github-com]]
- competitor [[greennode-ai]]
