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Hugging Face
An open platform for **models, datasets, and inference** — hub hosting, Transformers library, and spaces for demos.
When to use
Finding open-weight models, running inference locally, sharing fine-tuned checkpoints, browsing datasets.
When not to
When your org requires closed APIs only — you may still use HF for research, not production.
Example
Download `sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2` for embeddings, or browse the Model Hub for Llama, Mistral, and BERT variants.