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On October 29, 2026, Hugging Face announced the launch of Project ProtoStar, aimed at promoting the systematic sharing of publicly funded scientific research results in AI-ready formats, accompanied by open infrastructure and publication guidelines. According to Hugging Face, its platform already hosts more than 17,000 public datasets in core scientific fields, including nearly 29,000 in medicine and mathematics; the number of new scientific datasets added in the first nine months of 2026 was more than three times that of the same period in 2025. The first challenge focuses on climate risk, using historical weather data for 210 U.S. cities through 2018 to predict actual climate conditions from 2019 to 2026. No further progress has been disclosed at present.
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Hugging Face Announces Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Scientific Data AI-Ready
Hugging Face announced Project ProtoStar to promote the systematic sharing of publicly funded scientific research outputs in AI-ready formats, accompanied by open infrastructure and release guidelines. Hugging Face already hosts more than 17,000 public datasets in core scientific fields, including nearly 29,000 in medicine and mathematics; the number of new scientific datasets added in the first nine months of 2026 is more than triple that of the same period in 2025. The first challenge focuses on climate risk, using historical weather data from 210 U.S. cities through 2018 to predict actual climate conditions from 2019 to 2026.