Hugging Face is one of the few companies that recognizes that creating good OSS (e.g. the transformers Python package) and supporting that with managed services

Hugging Face is one of the few companies that recognizes that creating good OSS (e.g. the transformers Python package) and supporting that with managed services is better than focusing on managed services primarily and having open source as a crippled afterthought designed to drive people to said managed services. An example is HF's push toward ONNX export support for their major AI models in the transformers package, which allows faster model inference and could theoretically compete with their managed inference service.