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Hugging Face launches Project ProtoStar

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On 29 October 2026, Hugging Face announced the launch of Project ProtoStar on its official blog. According to the report, Hugging Face is pursuing the project with Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology and other institutions, aiming to share publicly funded research datasets, models and code openly in AI-ready formats so that publicly funded research data reaches a state usable by AI. The progress disclosed so far is limited to the launch and the participating institutions; there is no information yet on specific dataset sizes, timelines or milestone results.

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Oct 29
  1. Hugging Face Blog
    Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready

    Today, we're announcing Project ProtoStar, an initiative to unlock the potential of publicly funded scientific research by making datasets, models, and code more accessible and reusable, particularly for AI-driven research.

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