# Hugging Face launches Project ProtoStar to make publicly funded science AI-ready

> Original title: Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready

- Source: Hugging Face Blog
- Published: 2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/jfl59gmxzeuu7jo6zbnjmwzhq
- Original: https://huggingface.co/blog/announcing-project-protostar

## Summary

Hugging Face and partner universities, research groups and industry launch Project ProtoStar, an initiative to release publicly funded datasets, models and code in AI-ready, machine-actionable formats. The first open challenge, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, opens November 2. Hugging Face hosts more than 17,000 public science datasets, and researchers shared more than three times as many new ones in the first nine months of 2026 as in the same period of 2025.