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Market2026-08-06

Ai2 (the Allen Institute for AI) and Hugging Face announced an expanded partnership on August 6, 2026, giving Ai2's open releases more hosting capacity on the Hugging Face Hub. Effective immediately, Ai2's storage roughly triples to nearly two petabytes and its traffic is exempted from the Hub's standard rate limits, so large datasets and multi-checkpoint models download at full throughput. Ai2 says its models and datasets have been downloaded more than 50 million times since spring 2024, and Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue cited 900+ models and 1,200+ datasets. The agreement also covers ongoing integration work: olmOCR-Bench was adopted as Hugging Face's OCR benchmark and wired into the Hub leaderboard workflow, and MolmoAct 2 was integrated into LeRobot with training data in LeRobot format, drawing over 400,000 downloads in three weeks. OlmoEarth and HiRO-ACE are part of the Hugging Science Collabs collection.

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