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June 4, 2026 00:44 UTC
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CA-V-003401
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June 9, 2026 00:49 UTC
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CA-V-003558
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On June 9, 2026, Hugging Face updated its Model Card Guidelines by adding a 'Hardware' section to the documentation navigation menu. This addition expands the structural guidance available to model creators documenting their work on the Hub. The change appears to be a documentation organization update with no modification to substantive policy language or model card requirements.
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0Hub documentation Model Cards Hub 🏡 View all docs AWS Trainium & Inferentia Accelerate Argilla AutoTrain Bitsandbytes CLI Chat UI Dataset viewer Datasets Deploying on AWS Diffusers Distilabel Evaluate Google Cloud Google TPUs Gradio Hub Hub Python Library Huggingface.js Inference Endpoints (dedicated) Inference Providers Kernels LeRobot Leaderboards Lighteval Microsoft Azure OpenEnv Optimum PEFT Reachy Mini Safetensors Sentence Transformers TRL Tasks Text Embeddings Inference Text Generation Inference Tokenizers Trackio Transformers Transformers.js Xet smolagents timm Search documentation EN API docs 🤗 Hugging Face Hub Team & Enterprise Plans Single Sign-On (SSO) Audit Logs Storage Regions Data Studio for Private datasets Resource Groups (Access Control) Advanced Compute Options Advanced Security Tokens Management Publisher Analytics Gating Group Collections Network Security Rate Limits Blog Articles PRO Plan Repositories Getting Started with Repositories Repository Settings Storage Limits Storage Backend (Xet) Local Cache Pull Requests & Discussions Notifications Collections Webhooks GitHub Actions Notebooks Next Steps Licenses Models The Model Hub Model Cards Carbon Emissions Card Components Eval Results Leaderboard Data Gated Models Uploading Models Downloading Models Integrated Libraries Model Widgets Model Inference Models Download Stats Model Release Checklist Local Apps Frequently Asked Questions Advanced Topics Datasets Datasets Overview Dataset Cards Gated Datasets Uploading Datasets Uploading Datasets (for LLMs) Downloading Datasets Streaming Datasets Integrated Libraries Data Studio Agent Traces Datasets Download Stats Spaces Spaces Overview Spaces GPU Upgrades Spaces ZeroGPU Spaces Dev Mode Spaces Disk Usage & Storage Spaces Custom Domain Spaces as MCP servers Spaces as Agent Tools Spaces as API Endpoints Gradio Spaces Streamlit Spaces Static HTML Spaces Docker Spaces Embed your Space Run Spaces with Docker Spaces Configuration Reference Sign-In with HF button Featured Spaces Spaces Changelog Advanced Topics Storage Buckets new Access Patterns Bucket Integrations Bucket Security Jobs Jobs Overview Quickstart Pricing and Billing Manage Jobs Configuration Popular Images Examples & Tutorials Schedule Jobs Webhook Automation Reference Agents Agents Overview Hugging Face CLI for AI Agents Hugging Face MCP Server Hugging Face Agent Skills Building agents with the HF SDK Local Agents with llama.cpp Agent Libraries Other Organizations Billing Security Moderation Paper Pages Academia Hub Blog Articles Search Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Hub API Endpoints OAuth / Sign in with HF Join the Hugging Face community and get access to the augmented documentation experience Collaborate on models, datasets and Spaces Faster examples with accelerated inference Switch between documentation themes Sign Up to get started Copy page Model Cards What are Model Cards?0Hub documentation Model Cards Hub 🏡 View all docs AWS Trainium & Inferentia Accelerate Argilla AutoTrain Bitsandbytes CLI Chat UI Dataset viewer Datasets Deploying on AWS Diffusers Distilabel Evaluate Google Cloud Google TPUs Gradio Hub Hub Python Library Huggingface.js Inference Endpoints (dedicated) Inference Providers Kernels LeRobot Leaderboards Lighteval Microsoft Azure OpenEnv Optimum PEFT Reachy Mini Safetensors Sentence Transformers TRL Tasks Text Embeddings Inference Text Generation Inference Tokenizers Trackio Transformers Transformers.js Xet smolagents timm Search documentation EN API docs 🤗 Hugging Face Hub Team & Enterprise Plans Single Sign-On (SSO) Audit Logs Storage Regions Data Studio for Private datasets Resource Groups (Access Control) Advanced Compute Options Advanced Security Tokens Management Publisher Analytics Gating Group Collections Network Security Rate Limits Blog Articles PRO Plan Repositories Getting Started with Repositories Repository Settings Storage Limits Storage Backend (Xet) Local Cache Pull Requests & Discussions Notifications Collections Webhooks GitHub Actions Notebooks Next Steps Licenses Models The Model Hub Model Cards Carbon Emissions Card Components Eval Results Leaderboard Data Gated Models Uploading Models Downloading Models Integrated Libraries Model Widgets Model Inference Models Download Stats Model Release Checklist Hardware Local Apps Frequently Asked Questions Advanced Topics Datasets Datasets Overview Dataset Cards Gated Datasets Uploading Datasets Uploading Datasets (for LLMs) Downloading Datasets Streaming Datasets Integrated Libraries Data Studio Agent Traces Datasets Download Stats Spaces Spaces Overview Spaces GPU Upgrades Spaces ZeroGPU Spaces Dev Mode Spaces Disk Usage & Storage Spaces Custom Domain Spaces as MCP servers Spaces as Agent Tools Spaces as API Endpoints Gradio Spaces Streamlit Spaces Static HTML Spaces Docker Spaces Embed your Space Run Spaces with Docker Spaces Configuration Reference Sign-In with HF button Featured Spaces Spaces Changelog Advanced Topics Storage Buckets new Access Patterns Bucket Integrations Bucket Security Jobs Jobs Overview Quickstart Pricing and Billing Manage Jobs Configuration Popular Images Examples & Tutorials Schedule Jobs Webhook Automation Reference Agents Agents Overview Hugging Face CLI for AI Agents Hugging Face MCP Server Hugging Face Agent Skills Building agents with the HF SDK Local Agents with llama.cpp Agent Libraries Other Organizations Billing Security Moderation Paper Pages Academia Hub Blog Articles Search Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Hub API Endpoints OAuth / Sign in with HF Join the Hugging Face community and get access to the augmented documentation experience Collaborate on models, datasets and Spaces Faster examples with accelerated inference Switch between documentation themes Sign Up to get started Copy page Model Cards What are Model Cards?
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