Leading open-source library for ML demos, known for its extreme ease of use and seamless integration with the Hugging Face ecosystem, competing primarily with Streamlit.

Leadership

Founders

Abubakar Abid

PhD in Applied Machine Learning from Stanford University. Founded Gradio to simplify sharing ML research.

Ali Abdalla

Co-founder and housemate of Abubakar Abid at Stanford. Early developer of the Gradio library.

Ali Abid

Co-founder. Instrumental in the early technical development and growth of the open-source library.

Dawood Khan

Co-founder and Stanford housemate. Contributed to the launch of the first version in 2019.

Executive Team

Abubakar Abid

Founder & ML Team Lead (Hugging Face)

Former CEO of Gradio, now leading the Gradio team at Hugging Face.

Ahsen Khaliq

ML Advocate

Key team member focusing on community growth and demo showcases.

Board of Directors

Mar Hershenson

Managing Partner at Pear VC (Early Advisor)

Clement Delangue

CEO of Hugging Face (Strategic Lead)

Founding Story

Started by Abubakar Abid during his Stanford PhD to solve the problem of sharing a medical ML model with a non-technical doctor collaborator. He recruited his housemates to build the first version.

Business Model

Revenue

Hugging Face (parent) estimated ARR of $30M-$100M as of 2026.

Revenue Model

Gradio is open-source. Revenue is part of Hugging Face's ecosystem, generated through premium hosting, compute (GPU) upgrades on Spaces, and enterprise subscriptions.

Pricing Tiers

Gradio Library

Free

Open-source Python library.

Hugging Face Spaces (Community)

Free

Free hosting on CPU instances.

Hugging Face Spaces (PRO)

Paid

Access to dedicated hardware and GPUs (T4, A10G, etc.) starting at hourly rates.

Private (Acquired)

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Data Scientists
ML Engineers
AI Researchers
Enterprise AI Teams

Use Cases

Building ML research demos
Internal model testing and feedback
Interactive education for data science
Rapid prototyping of AI products

Notable Customers

Google
Amazon
Meta
Stanford University

Quick Facts

Headquarters

New York City, NY

Founded

2019

Entity Type

Inc.

Employees

Total Funding

$2.75M

Investors

Pear VC, Cowboy Ventures

Office Locations

New York City

Paris

Mountain View

Funding History

Seed$2.75M

2019

N/A valuation

Pear VC

Cowboy Ventures

Bridge Ventures

History & Milestones

Jan 2026

Released Gradio 6, enabling custom AI web-components with zero build steps.

2024

Released Gradio 4 and 5, expanding UI components and performance.

Dec 2021

Acquired by Hugging Face to integrate ML demos into the Hugging Face Hub via Spaces.

2019

Gradio founded and released its first open-source version.

2019

Selected for the PearX S19 cohort by Pear VC.

Key Capabilities

40+ Input/Output components (Chat, Image, Video, 3D, etc.)

Instant public sharing with temporary links

Permanent hosting on Hugging Face Spaces

Direct integration with Hugging Face Hub

Customizable UI with HTML/JS/CSS inline

One-command installation and zero-config setup

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

Hugging Face Hub
Jupyter Notebooks
Google Colab
GitHub Actions

Key Partnerships

Hugging Face Hub

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Connect

Website

gradio.app/

GitHub

gradio-app

Discord

TSWU7HyaYu

AI Topics

Gradio focuses on these topics:

AI Development Libraries(1)

Audio Communication(1)

Voice Synthesis(1)

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Gradio

Gradio's mission is to make machine learning accessible and shareable through an open-source Python library that builds web interfaces for ML models.

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New York City, NYHeadquarters

2019Est.

5Employees

$2.75MRaised

Focus Areas

AI Development Libraries

Audio Communication

Voice Synthesis

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AI Tools by Gradio

(1)

FastRTC

Python Library for Real-Time WebRTC

AI Dev Libraries Audio Comms Voice Synthesis

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Latest News

12/21/2021

Hugging Face Acquires Gradio to democratize ML demos

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01/19/2026

Gradio 6 Launched with Native Web Components

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10/01/2025

Gradio achieves 1M monthly active demo users

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02/01/2024

Gradio team shares the inside story of their exit and journey

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Products & Services

Gradio Python Library

2019

An open-source library for building machine learning web interfaces directly in Python.

Hugging Face Spaces

2021

Platform for hosting and sharing Gradio-based ML demos and applications.

Market Position

Leading open-source library for ML demos, known for its extreme ease of use and seamless integration with the Hugging Face ecosystem, competing primarily with Streamlit.

Leadership

Founders

Abubakar Abid

PhD in Applied Machine Learning from Stanford University. Founded Gradio to simplify sharing ML research.

Ali Abdalla

Co-founder and housemate of Abubakar Abid at Stanford. Early developer of the Gradio library.

Ali Abid

Co-founder. Instrumental in the early technical development and growth of the open-source library.

Dawood Khan

Co-founder and Stanford housemate. Contributed to the launch of the first version in 2019.

Executive Team

Abubakar Abid

Founder & ML Team Lead (Hugging Face)

Former CEO of Gradio, now leading the Gradio team at Hugging Face.

Ahsen Khaliq

ML Advocate

Key team member focusing on community growth and demo showcases.

Board of Directors

Mar Hershenson

Managing Partner at Pear VC (Early Advisor)

Clement Delangue

CEO of Hugging Face (Strategic Lead)

Founding Story

Started by Abubakar Abid during his Stanford PhD to solve the problem of sharing a medical ML model with a non-technical doctor collaborator. He recruited his housemates to build the first version.

Business Model

Revenue

Hugging Face (parent) estimated ARR of $30M-$100M as of 2026.

Revenue Model

Gradio is open-source. Revenue is part of Hugging Face's ecosystem, generated through premium hosting, compute (GPU) upgrades on Spaces, and enterprise subscriptions.

Pricing Tiers

Gradio Library

Free

Open-source Python library.

Hugging Face Spaces (Community)

Free

Free hosting on CPU instances.

Hugging Face Spaces (PRO)

Paid

Access to dedicated hardware and GPUs (T4, A10G, etc.) starting at hourly rates.

Private (Acquired)

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Data Scientists
ML Engineers
AI Researchers
Enterprise AI Teams

Use Cases

Building ML research demos
Internal model testing and feedback
Interactive education for data science
Rapid prototyping of AI products

Notable Customers

Google
Amazon
Meta
Stanford University

Quick Facts

Headquarters

New York City, NY

Founded

2019

Entity Type

Inc.

Employees

Total Funding

$2.75M

Investors

Pear VC, Cowboy Ventures

Office Locations

New York City

Paris

Mountain View

Funding History

Seed$2.75M

2019

N/A valuation

Pear VC

Cowboy Ventures

Bridge Ventures

History & Milestones

Jan 2026

Released Gradio 6, enabling custom AI web-components with zero build steps.

2024

Released Gradio 4 and 5, expanding UI components and performance.

Dec 2021

Acquired by Hugging Face to integrate ML demos into the Hugging Face Hub via Spaces.

2019

Gradio founded and released its first open-source version.

2019

Selected for the PearX S19 cohort by Pear VC.

Key Capabilities

40+ Input/Output components (Chat, Image, Video, 3D, etc.)

Instant public sharing with temporary links

Permanent hosting on Hugging Face Spaces

Direct integration with Hugging Face Hub

Customizable UI with HTML/JS/CSS inline

One-command installation and zero-config setup

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

Hugging Face Hub
Jupyter Notebooks
Google Colab
GitHub Actions

Key Partnerships

Hugging Face Hub

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Connect

Website

gradio.app/

GitHub

gradio-app

Discord

TSWU7HyaYu

AI Topics

Gradio focuses on these topics:

AI Development Libraries(1)

Audio Communication(1)

Voice Synthesis(1)

Back to all developers