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Hugging Face
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Upscale AI

AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Hugging Face

Open-source AI platform and hosting hub where developers build, share, and deploy machine learning models and datasets.

9 Pulse stories
UA
Upscale AI

Upscale AI builds full-stack AI networking infrastructure — silicon, systems, and software — to connect accelerators, memory, and storage into a high-performance fabric for large-scale AI training and inference.

2 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$3.2B
$500M
Hugging FaceUpscale AI
Last Valuation
$13.5B
$2B
Hugging FaceUpscale AI
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2016
Founded
2025
New York, NY / Paris, France
HQ
Santa Clara, California
Private
Status
Private
Hugging Face investors
Salesforce VenturesGoogleAmazonNvidiaAMDIntelSequoiaLux Capital
Upscale AI investors
Premji InvestNvidiaSalesforce VenturesTemasekSeligman VenturesMaverick SiliconMayfieldTiger Global

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Hugging Face and Upscale AI.

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