New to Hugging Face ?

Like an AI Bazaar

Keno Leon
6 min readMay 21, 2024

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If like me you are new to Hugging Face, the site that at this point has become ubiquitously tied to AI development and feel you should check it out, you might like this short overview.

Functionality and UI/IX will probably change with time so this is a 
snapshot mid 2024.

Overview

Getting the way of the land in Hugging Face at first can seem a little daunting, but if you know what the core functions are then you can ease into it, so what does it do ?

It primarily hosts AI Models ! but hosting AI Models means a few different things, consider a common AI pipeline :

So accordingly Hugging Face provides a dedicated section for most of these elements along with ways to tie things together :

Models is your entry into any one of the thousands of models Hugging Face hosts, Datasets provides training datasets and Spaces are Apps that use some pretrained model, while there are other features…

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