--- description: Find out why Hugging Face was selected for the list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023: Hugging Face image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4272270b85aaad6/698a3dc8457a521cdbd67aed/time100-companies-Hugging-Face-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 21, 2023 # Hugging Face Collaborative AI by [Billy Perrigo](/author/billy-perrigo/) ## Billy Perrigo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent  The logo for Hugging Face, an open-source artificial intelligence company. The logo for Hugging Face, an open-source artificial intelligence company.Courtesy of Hugging Face A recent memo from inside Google suggested that despite investing billions into AI research, the company and its big-name competitors were falling behind: “While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch.” That faction is the open-source community, an amorphous group [working on AI](https://time.com/6132399/timnit-gebru-ai-google/ "undefined") in decentralized collaboration. One of its key institutions is Hugging Face, a platform for sharing data, connecting to powerful supercomputers, and hosting AI apps; 100,000 new AI models have been uploaded to its systems in the past six months. “The biggest risk,” says CEO Clement Delangue, “is to have power and understanding controlled and concentrated in the hands of a few.” _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285164/hugging-face/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285164/hugging-face/"},"headline":"Hugging Face","datePublished":"2023-06-21T10:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:15:45.123Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285164/hugging-face/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4272270b85aaad6/698a3dc8457a521cdbd67aed/time100-companies-Hugging-Face-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Billy Perrigo","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/"}],"creator":"Billy Perrigo","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4272270b85aaad6/698a3dc8457a521cdbd67aed/time100-companies-Hugging-Face-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285164/hugging-face/","name":"Hugging Face"}}]}] ```