# Community Evals: Because we're done trusting black-box leaderboards over the community

DevFeed: [Community Evals: Because we're done trusting black-box leaderboards over the community](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/community-evals-because-we-re-done-trusting-black-box-leaderboards-over-the-community-7146.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/community-evals>)

Author: ben burtenshaw; Nathan Habib; Bertrand Chevrier; merve; Daniel van Strien; Niels Rogge; Julien Chaumond

Published: 2026-02-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [ai observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-observability.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hub.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leaderboard.md>), [leaderboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leaderboards.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>)

## AI overview

Hugging Face introduces community-reported benchmark evaluations and dataset-hosted leaderboards, with reproducible specifications, pull-request submissions, and verification badges.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.