Hugging Face
French-founded open AI platform and model hub, often called the GitHub of machine learning. Significant US presence reflected in lower score.
Quick facts
It's genuinely the default hub for open-source AI models and datasets, with a huge share of the ecosystem's open-weight releases hosted and documented there first.
It's incorporated and hosted in the US, so if data jurisdiction matters to you specifically this isn't a strong pick despite the French founders, and much of the heavy compute for large models still runs outside Europe.
Why does it score 25?
Incorporated in Delaware with HQ in New York – outside Europe entirely, despite the founders being French, which is why the legal score is 0.
Venture-backed, but no single non-EU company holds a controlling stake.
Runs on AWS infrastructure hosted in the US, with a France-based presence but the primary data jurisdiction sitting outside Europe.
Partially open source and GDPR-compliant – a huge share of the actual model hub and libraries are open, even though the company itself scores low on jurisdiction.
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