Hugging Face hosts its first-ever hackathon in the GCC region
ariG23498 · x · 2026-11-09
Hugging Face team member ariG23498 reports on the platform's first hackathon in the GCC region, hosted by the QAI team, with a large on-site developer audience and hands-on team mentoring.
Photos show the event covered Hugging Face onboarding as well as technical topics like GGUF (the format llama.cpp uses to store models efficiently), marking the start of Hugging Face's push into the Middle East developer ecosystem.
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