🤗 Hugging Face¶
Status: 🔜 Coming soon
Tier: 2 — The "GitHub of AI"
Overview¶
Hugging Face is the world's largest open AI platform — hosting 1M+ models, datasets, and interactive demos. It's not a competitor to Copilot; it's the marketplace where everyone (including Microsoft) publishes and shares AI models.
Planned Topics¶
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| What is Hugging Face? | The "GitHub of AI" — models, datasets, Spaces |
| Navigating the Model Hub | Browse 1M+ models, understand model cards, licensing |
| The Open LLM Leaderboard | How models are benchmarked — what the numbers mean |
| Datasets Hub | Finding and understanding training data |
| Spaces | Try AI demos in your browser for free |
| The Transformers library | The #1 Python library for working with AI models |
| 🔨 Hands-on: Browse & test models | Find a model, try it in a Space |
| 🔨 Hands-on: Download model → Ollama | Pull a model from HF, run it locally on your Snapdragon |
| HF + Azure | Hugging Face models in Azure AI Foundry model catalog |