NEW YORK, NY, June 26, 2026 – Qualcomm Technologies and Hugging Face are expanding their collaboration to move open AI models across Qualcomm-powered edge devices, cloud systems, and data center infrastructure, giving developers a common common deployment path for distributed AI environments.
The collaboration spans Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Dragonwing, and Dragonfly products and supports AI workloads across edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and data centers. The companies said the work is intended to help applications balance performance, cost, privacy, and latency across different computing environments.
“This engagement represents a major step forward in making advanced AI more open, scalable, and accessible,” said Cristiano Amon, president and CEO, Qualcomm Inc. “By combining Qualcomm’s leadership in high-performance, low-power computing with Hugging Face’s vibrant developer ecosystem, we are enabling a new generation of AI applications that seamlessly span device and cloud.”
“Increasingly the world is running on open and local models because they’re more affordable than the big APIs and private by design,” said Clément Delangue, co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face. “Together with Qualcomm Technologies, using Modular software and tools, we’re making it easy for our 16 million developers to run open models everywhere, from a device in your hand to a full rack in the data center, with agents that work across the compute continuum.”
One area of the collaboration centers on Qualcomm Dragonfly-powered data center infrastructure. Hugging Face’s storage and inference services are planned to integrate with those systems, allowing developers to deploy and scale AI workloads on Qualcomm-powered data center hardware as models move from development into production.
The collaboration also extends AI model deployment across Qualcomm Technologies’ edge and cloud platforms. Hugging Face’s catalog includes more than 3 million open models covering multiple tasks, domains, and modalities. The companies plan to use an agent-based workflow to prepare those models for Qualcomm Technologies platforms, automating setup, optimization, and deployment across smartphones, PCs, wearables, industrial systems, automotive platforms, newer edge devices, and data center racks. Customers using Qualcomm Technologies-powered devices or cloud systems will also receive access to Hugging Face PRO.
A third area focuses on coordinating AI models across device and cloud environments. Qualcomm Technologies and Hugging Face plan to support a distributed AI framework in which agents coordinate models and workflows according to performance, cost, privacy, and latency requirements. Developers will also be able to access Modular’s AI software components through the Hugging Face ecosystem.
Source: Qualcomm
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, CA. Established in 1985, the company specializes in designing and supplying integrated circuits and system software for wireless telecommunications. Its product portfolio includes Snapdragon processors, modems, and platforms utilized in smartphones, automotive systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and industrial equipment. Qualcomm operates primarily through two segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), which focuses on semiconductor products, and Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), which manages its patent portfolio. The company serves a global clientele across various industries, including mobile, automotive, computing, and industrial sectors, leveraging its expertise in 5G, AI and low-power computing to drive innovation and connectivity worldwide.
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face develops software and cloud services for AI/ML work. Its platform hosts models, datasets, applications, and developer tools. Its products include the Hugging Face Hub, Transformers library, Inference Providers, Spaces, datasets, evaluation tools, and enterprise software. Developers, researchers, universities, companies, government organizations, and technology teams use its platform to build, test, deploy, and manage AI systems. Hugging Face was founded in 2016. The company is headquartered in New York City, NY, and has operations in France. Hugging Face provides open source and commercial software for AI development and deployment.