[___luigi]

Yes. HF is built on a tiered subscription (SaaS) model. https://huggingface.co/pricing

You can refer to this discussion for more details: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1285204129225281536

[Tenoke]

I believe huggingface mostly subsist on investments and the amount they earn directly is still pretty small compared to expenses, is that no longer the case?

[h0mie]

One of the founders said on twitter (don't remember when exactly, but less than a year I think) thay they were cash flow positive.

[___luigi]

Yes, this is the tweet: https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1354007933315645441

[fxtentacle]

Thank you :)

I guess I'm now "old" in the sense that it never occurred to me to search for this kind of info on Twitter.