huggingface/transformers Trends at 160,226 Stars — Model-Definition Framework Evolves Into Universal Inference and Training Backbone for Multimodal AI

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Hugging Face's transformers library continues trending at 160,226 stars as the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning across text, vision, audio, and multimodal models for both inference and training. The sustained trending reflects ongoing releases and community momentum as the library serves as the default integration target for new model releases — including PaddleOCR's recent announcement that 20 major models now support Transformers as inference backend. For any builder shipping AI models, transformers remains the standard runtime.