Hugging Face launches Project ProtoStar to release publicly funded science in AI-ready formats
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Hugging Face announces Project ProtoStar, an initiative with partner universities, research groups and industry to release publicly funded datasets, models and code in AI-ready, machine-actionable formats.
Participating organizations formalize their involvement through a memorandum of understanding. The first open challenge, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, opens November 2.
Hugging Face says it hosts more than 17,000 public science datasets, and that researchers shared more than three times as many new ones in the first nine months of 2026 as in the same period of 2025.
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AIHugging 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.
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