# State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026

DevFeed: [State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/state-of-open-source-on-hugging-face-spring-2026-7254.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/state-of-os-hf-spring-2026>)

Author: Avijit Ghosh; Lucie-Aimée Kaffee; Yacine Jernite; Irene Solaiman

Published: 2026-03-17T16:37:55Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>), [Visual Studio Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/visual-studio-code.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ecosystem.md>), [hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hub.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

This analysis examines the growth and concentration of the open-source AI ecosystem on Hugging Face in 2025. It reports nearly doubled user, model, and dataset activity, increasing participation through fine-tuned models, adapters, benchmarks, and applications, while highlighting concentrated downloads, specialized communities, and growing company adoption.

## Source excerpt

This post builds on an earlier analysis conducted mid-2025, available here, which examined what the Hugging Face Community is building. We recommend reading additional perspectives on the open source ecosystem in and outside of Hugging Face from the Data Provenance Initiative, Interconnects, OpenRouter and a16z, and MIT and the Linux Foundation.