# Hugging Face — Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face!

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-10-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Sentence Transformers
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/sentence-transformers-joins-hf
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1600-sentence-transformers-is-joining-hugging-face

Sentence Transformers is transitioning from the UKP Lab at TU Darmstadt to Hugging Face, with Tom Aarsen continuing as maintainer. It remains an open-source project under Apache 2.0.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/sentence-transformers-joins-hf:

> Today, we are announcing that Sentence Transformers is transitioning from Iryna Gurevych's Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the TU Darmstadt to Hugging Face.

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