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[ANNOUNCEMENT] π£ HuggingChat is closing for now
I have bittersweet news to share. π’
We are closing down huggingchat for now.
Huggingchat was launched in April 2023 when ChatGPT was just 5 months old and it was still quite hard to deploy a similar service. The goal of this app was to showcase that it was now possible to build an open source alternative to ChatGPT, building on top of the community's models and building blocks. πͺ
We also built Huggingchat as a testbed to optimize inference which led to the creation of text-generation-inference which in turn led to HF contributions to SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp, and other LLM runtime engines since then.
In the past 27 months we've launched:
- π§ Assistants, an easy way to bundle a prompt, a model, and some tools into an easily-shareable URL you can send your friends
- π οΈ HuggingChat Tools, exposing the full ecosystem of Gradio Spaces straight from within the chat interface
- π¬ Many model launches were supported on HuggingChat: from OpenAssistant, all the LLamas, Phi-4, to Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma.... π₯
The app has always been free and experimental. Today we are closing it to make room for something new and more integrated with the HF ecosystem. You can export your past conversations as a Zip file, to load them into another interface.
If you are looking for a cool alternative interface you should take a look at:
- LibreChat a clean and simple yet feature-packed chat interface
- openwebui β does it even need an intro anymore?
- Scira MCP, an up and coming MCP-centric chat interface
Finally, chat-ui (the codebase powering HuggingChat) is still maintained (GitHub repo).
You can 1-click deploy your own instance using the Chat UI Spaces Docker template.
What's happening to huggingchat π’ ?
I hope it's not too long.
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Also, how do I export my past conversations?
Hi everyone! π
This is also my last week at Hugging Face and I'm currently working on a simple page to let you export your personal data & conversation history from HuggingChat so you can reuse it on other platforms in the future. Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to answer them.
It was a pleasure building this app for y'all π«‘
Thats sad.
I wished this never happened
Om what's happened
Well... Okay I guess
I'm assuming we'll be getting something new in a little while. the link to it is still in the side section on the huggingface site anyhow.
EDIT: the message that's replaced the Huggingchat page even says "we're cooking up something new, stay tuned". I know it's probably just wishful thinking, but even the announcement itself just says "for now".
@julien-c can you give us a little more direction? what timeframe are you looking at - days? weeks? months? Will it still be free?
Man i hope the assistants aren't lost forever they were amazing. thanks for the service guys hope they come back soon
HuggingChat was a rare gem in the LLM ecosystem. It was a space where things felt transparent, and customizable especially compared to the walled gardens of many corporate offerings.
I feeling a bit adrift right now especially for someone like me, who clearly thrives on the frontier of LLM experimentation
Have people considered using the Hugging Face inference playground? For people on the PRO plan everyone gets $2 in free inference credits so it can be used: https://huggingface.co/playground
Free plan gets a small quota as well
Hi, how do we ensure our data is deleted please? Without warning this service disappeared and now I can't find a way to delete my historical data.
I do not consent to my data being stored, used, sold or for any other use without my authorisation.