HuggingFace offers shared models, datasets, and hosted spaces, giving AI researchers and developers a complete ecosystem. This article explains how to work with HuggingFace models and datasets. 1. Model Operations and Usage 1.1 Custom Storage Directory 1 export HF_HOME=/Volumes/Data/HuggingFace Otherwise the default is the ~/.cache/huggingface directory. 1.2 Downloading Models The