Georgia Institute of Technology

Hugging Face and partners launch ProtoStar to make public science AI-ready

Hugging Face and partners including Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Georgia Tech, Astera Institute and ORCA launched Project ProtoStar to release publicly funded scientific datasets, models and code in AI-ready formats. US federal R&D spending is about $190 billion a year, and agencies like NIH and NSF are tightening public-access rules. The first open challenge, hosted by Carnegie Mellon, opens November 2.