{
 "meta": {
  "title": "Hugging Face public model count over time",
  "notes": "Counts model repositories (duplicates/finetunes included). Points machine-read from archived captures of huggingface.co/models (numTotalItems); archive URLs in methodology. Log-linear fit: doubling every 8.1 months (R^2 0.957, n=12).",
  "sources": "huggingface.co/models via Internet Archive captures",
  "license": "Compilation CC BY 4.0",
  "as_of": "2026-10-20"
 },
 "columns": [
  "date",
  "public_model_count"
 ],
 "rows": [
  [
   "2022-03-07",
   31709
  ],
  [
   "2022-06-15",
   52204
  ],
  [
   "2022-12-15",
   101574
  ],
  [
   "2023-03-15",
   153151
  ],
  [
   "2023-08-16",
   293672
  ],
  [
   "2023-12-16",
   435772
  ],
  [
   "2024-03-16",
   552114
  ],
  [
   "2024-09-15",
   954376
  ],
  [
   "2025-03-17",
   1509972
  ],
  [
   "2025-09-16",
   2092667
  ],
  [
   "2026-03-02",
   2678385
  ],
  [
   "2026-10-16",
   3157435
  ]
 ]
}