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# Hugging Face users created 332,000 new models in the last quarter of 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/hugging-face-models-datasets-created/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:31:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:29.000Z
- Description: Hugging Face users created about 1.18 million new models in 2025, including 332,000 in the fourth quarter alone, plus 153,000 new datasets that quarter.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, Open Source AI, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models

332K

▲ 53% since Q4 2024

new models created on Hugging Face in Q4 2025, plus 153,000 new datasets

Q1 2022Q4 2025

## What the chart shows

Users created about 332,000 new models on Hugging Face in the fourth quarter of 2025, and about 1.18 million across the year. In the first quarter of 2022 the figure was about 3,000.

New datasets jumped in the fourth quarter of 2025 to about 153,000, almost double the 81,800 of the previous quarter.

## Key numbers

| Measure                 | Value     |
| ----------------------- | --------- |
| New models, Q4 2025     | 332,098   |
| New models, all of 2025 | 1,180,864 |
| New datasets, Q4 2025   | 152,907   |
| New models, Q1 2022     | 3,068     |

## How to read it

- Counts repositories created in each quarter, including fine-tunes, copies and quantised versions of existing models.
- Creation does not mean use; most repositories receive few downloads.

**Source:** [Hugging Face](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#hugging-face), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.6: *Number of models and datasets on Hugging Face, 2022–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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