# Ai2 — Ai2 expands collaboration with Hugging Face to accelerate open science

- Company: Ai2 (allenai.org)
- Announced: 2026-08-06
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://allenai.org/blog/hugging-face-partnership
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18541-ai2-expands-collaboration-with-hugging-face-to-accelerate-open-science
- Subject: Olmo / Molmo / Asta

Ai2 and Hugging Face are expanding their partnership to make fully open AI easier to access and deploy. Hugging Face is roughly tripling Ai2's storage on the Hub to nearly two petabytes and removing standard rate limits on traffic. The collaboration also includes integration of Ai2's open robotics model MolmoAct 2 into Hugging Face's LeRobot library and the adoption of Ai2's olmOCR-Bench as Hugging Face's go-to OCR benchmark.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://allenai.org/blog/hugging-face-partnership:

> Beginning immediately, Hugging Face is roughly tripling our storage on the Hub to nearly two petabytes. Our traffic will also no longer be subject to the Hub’s standard rate limits, allowing even its largest datasets and multi-checkpoint models to download at full throughput.

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