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AI Model Release Tracker US & Canada · updated
  • 1Releases tracked
  • Oct 22Latest · Carbon-X
  • 100%Open-weight
  • USNew York, United States

Hugging Face is a New York, United States-based AI company that runs the Hugging Face Hub, a platform for hosting and sharing models, datasets, and Spaces. It describes its mission as democratizing good machine learning, and it maintains widely used open-source libraries on GitHub, including transformers, diffusers, datasets, peft, and accelerate. The company also has a Paris entity, Hugging Face SAS, as its EU establishment. Beyond hosting other labs' work, its research teams publish their own open models, such as the SmolLM and SmolVLM families from its smol models group. Its tracked release, Carbon-X (October 22, 2026), is an Apache-2.0 14.8B model built on Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA and answers in English.

Hugging Face

United States US & Canada huggingface.co

1 release latest Oct 22, 2026

  1. Carbon-X

    Open 14.8B Apache-2.0 model that reads DNA and answers in English (variant effects, regulatory regions); built on Qwen3-14B, runs on one GPU.

    • Other
    • Open weights
    • 41K ctx

Hugging Face FAQ

What is Hugging Face's latest AI model?
Hugging Face's most recent release in the Startrise tracker is Carbon-X, released Oct 22, 2026.
How many AI models has Hugging Face released?
Startrise tracks 1 notable Hugging Face release since January 2025, from Carbon-X (Oct 22, 2026) to Carbon-X.
Does Hugging Face release open-weight models?
Yes. 1 of 1 tracked Hugging Face releases (100%) ship with downloadable weights; the most recent is Carbon-X.
Where is Hugging Face based?
Hugging Face is based in New York, United States.