Hugging Face announced in July 2025 that HuggingChat was closing “for now,” but the official public service is operating again in 2026. The current interface describes HuggingChat as a chat application powered by open-source AI models.
Its Omni router automatically selects a model based on the request, while users can also choose models directly from a catalog that currently lists more than one hundred options. The exact reopening date is not established by the available first-party sources, so no specific relaunch date is asserted.