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Hugging Face Transformers

by Hugging Face

Transformers is an open-source library developed by Hugging Face that provides thousands of pre-trained models for natural language understanding and generation tasks. It supports a wide range of NLP applications including text classification, named entity recognition, question answering, machine translation, and text generation.

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A European alternative to Google BERT, Facebook Fairseq.

How the EU-ness score breaks down

Each criterion is worth a fixed number of points, multiplied by how good the evidence is and how recently it was checked. Read the full rubric.

  • Where it is built

    Not documented0 / 20 pts

    Where does the engineering team that builds this sit?

  • Data hosting

    Not documented0 / 20 pts

    In which countries does customer data physically sit?

  • Company headquarters

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    Where is the company that sells this actually based?

  • Ownership & control

    Verified0 / 20 pts

    Controlled by a non-EU parent

    • huggingface.co · producer · checked 2026-08-02

      “these Terms are a binding agreement between us, Hugging Face, Inc . a Delaware corporation ("Hugging Face", "Company", "us", "we"), and You”

  • Legal jurisdiction

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    Could a non-EU government compel access to this data?

  • Underlying infrastructure

    Not documented0 / 10 pts

    Does it run on European infrastructure, or on a US hyperscaler?

Documented quality

Not a review score. These are things a maker either publishes and commits to, or does not — warranty length, spare parts, certifications, support windows.

  • Open source

    Not documented0 / 20 pts

    Can the code be inspected and self-hosted?

  • Data portability

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    Can you export your data in an open format and leave?

  • Independent certification

    Not documented0 / 30 pts

    Has an outside body certified anything about this product?

  • Support & maintenance

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    How long are updates and security fixes guaranteed?

Where it comes from

Designed in
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Developed in
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Data hosted in
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Who is behind it

French-American company that develops machine learning models and provides a platform for AI model sharing and deployment.

Legal entity
Hugging Face, Inc.
Founded
2016

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