Hugging Face Opens Singapore Hub to Serve Asia-Pacific ML Community
Hugging Face inaugurated its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore with a dedicated compute cluster, regional model registry, and local events space. The hub will host the first Asia-Pacific edition of the annual Hugging Face conference in September 2026, expected to draw 3,000 ML practitioners.
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