French-American startup company(wiki) founded in 2016 based in New York City that develops tools for building applications using Machine Learning.
Most notable for their Transformer library, with 1000’s of open-source models: https://huggingface.co/models
On April 28, 2021, the company launched the BigScience Research Workshop and released the model BLOOM (Language Model) a year later.
As they look to the future, they want to be the de-facto platform for open-source robotics