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| <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/hero.png" alt="Project ProtoStar — public research, put to work" style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0;border-radius:0;"> | |
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| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0px 0 14px;max-width:760px">Hugging Face and partners across science and research are working to make <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">publicly funded datasets, models and code</strong> easier for researchers and AI systems to discover, use and build on.</p> | |
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| <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/s01.png" alt="01 · The mission — Public research, put to work" style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0;border-radius:0;margin-top:18px"> | |
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| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:10px 0 14px;max-width:760px">ProtoStar is an initiative to turn publicly funded scientific research into resources anyone can put to work. It brings together open technical infrastructure, practical publishing support and community challenges to encourage the release and reuse of scientific datasets, models, code and documentation.</p> | |
| <div style="border-left:4px solid #FF9E7A;padding:2px 0 2px 18px;margin:22px 0 22px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:30px;line-height:1.08;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.01em;color:#e9edfb">Access alone does not guarantee reuse.</div></div> | |
| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0px 0 14px;max-width:760px">Public access to scientific results is expanding, but data is still scattered across institutional portals, buried in PDFs, or published without the documentation, licensing and provenance needed to combine it with other work. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06580" style="color:#FF9E7A;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">Research on the barriers to AI-ready science</a> shows they are institutional as well as technical: data curation needs better tools, support and incentives.</p> | |
| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0px 0 14px;max-width:760px">The demand is already there. The Hugging Face Hub hosts more than <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">17,000 public scientific datasets</strong> and a similar number of scientific models, and in the first nine months of 2026 researchers shared <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/evijit/hf-science-growth" style="color:#FF9E7A;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">over three times as many new science datasets</a> as in the same period of 2025. Documentation is what makes them count: <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">90% of dataset downloads</strong> on the Hub come from fully documented datasets.</p> | |
| <div style="margin-top:26px"><div style="font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:11px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#FF9E7A;margin:0 0 12px">How ProtoStar works</div></div> | |
| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px;margin:0 0 16px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 180px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #FF9E7A;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#FF9E7A99;margin-bottom:8px">01</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Share research in usable forms</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Support researchers who want to release datasets, model weights, code and documentation in open, machine-readable formats, with clear metadata and instructions for reuse.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 180px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #FFD21E;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#FFD21E99;margin-bottom:8px">02</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Build lasting homes for it</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Help institutions maintain discoverable repositories on open infrastructure, including the Hugging Face Academic Hub, with licensing, versioning and preservation practices that fit their needs.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 180px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #57E7E0;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#57E7E099;margin-bottom:8px">03</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Put it to the test in public</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Run challenges, hackathons and competitions with the open-science community that reuse those artifacts, surface barriers and show what better access can enable.</div></div></div> | |
| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:6px 0 14px;max-width:760px"><strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">Participating organizations keep control over which materials are appropriate to release and how they are shared.</strong> ProtoStar builds on <a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/public-org-data-ai" style="color:#FF9E7A;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">Hugging Face’s guidance for public organizations</a> preparing data for AI, and complements national efforts to expand AI for science, including the Genesis Mission.</p> | |
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| <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/s02.png" alt="02 · Founding orgs — Led by stellar partners" style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0;border-radius:0;margin-top:22px"> | |
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| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;margin:0 0 0px"><a href="https://huggingface.co/CMU-OSPO" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/cmu-logo.svg" alt="Carnegie Mellon University" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Carnegie Mellon University</div></a><a href="https://purdue.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/purdue-logo.svg" alt="Purdue University" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Purdue University</div></a><a href="https://huggingface.co/GeorgiaTech" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/gatech-logo.svg" alt="Georgia Institute of Technology" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Georgia Institute of Technology</div></a><a href="https://huggingface.co/ArizonaStateUniversity" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/asu-logo.png" alt="Arizona State University" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Arizona State University</div></a><a href="https://www.gwu.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/gwu-logo.png" alt="The George Washington University" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">The George Washington University</div></a><a href="https://astera.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/astera-logo.svg" alt="Astera Institute" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Astera Institute</div></a></div> | |
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| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;margin:0 0 0px"><a href="https://huggingface.co/" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/hf-logo.svg" alt="Hugging Face" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Hugging Face</div></a><a href="https://orcaopen.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/orca-logo.png" alt="Open Research Community Accelerator" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Open Research Community Accelerator</div></a><a href="https://www.openforumai.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 92px;min-width:0;text-decoration:none"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;height:64px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.14);border-radius:10px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.06),0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,.35);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;padding:8px 14px"><img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/ofai-logo.jpg" alt="Open Forum for AI" style="max-width:100%;max-height:44px;margin:0;object-fit:contain"></div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.35;color:#e9edfb;margin-top:8px">Open Forum for AI</div></a></div> | |
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| <div style="box-sizing:border-box;background:#0d1328;background-image:linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(255,210,30,.10) 0%,rgba(255,210,30,0) 60%);border:1px solid rgba(255,210,30,.35);border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px 6px;margin:0 0 16px"> | |
| <div style="font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:11px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#FFD21E;margin:0 0 10px">Working in the open</div> | |
| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0px 0 14px;max-width:760px">We are running this collaboration openly. Participating organizations have signed <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/project-protostar/mous" style="color:#FFD21E;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">Memoranda of Understanding</a> with Hugging Face: non-binding, non-exclusive commitments to release publicly funded research in AI-ready formats on open infrastructure.</p> | |
| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0px 0 14px;max-width:760px">There is a lot of work remaining to clear the hurdles in the system, from formats and documentation to incentives and infrastructure. <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">This is the first step.</strong></p> | |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/project-protostar/mous" style="display:inline-block;margin:0 0 14px;padding:8px 16px;border-radius:999px;border:1px solid #FFD21E88;color:#FFD21E;font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">Read the signed MOUs ↗</a> | |
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| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:4px 0 14px;max-width:760px">The universities take part through the Open Forum for AI, and ORCA through its Fostering Innovation Network. Hugging Face provides the open infrastructure that helps research travel beyond the institutions that produced it.</p> | |
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| <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/s03.png" alt="03 · CMU challenge — Climate Risk Intelligence" style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0;border-radius:0;margin-top:22px"> | |
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| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:10px 0 14px;max-width:760px">Carnegie Mellon is hosting the inaugural ProtoStar challenge: <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">AI systems that analyze extreme weather trends and recommend climate adaptation strategies</strong>, built on CMU's historical weather records for 210 U.S. cities.</p> | |
| <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/us-map.png" alt="Map of the 210 U.S. cities in the challenge dataset, with temperature trend lines for Seattle, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Miami. Challenge window: November 2–13, 2026." style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:4px 0 16px;border-radius:12px;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22)"> | |
| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0 0 14px;max-width:760px">Using <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">only data up to 2018</strong>, forecast each city's weather for 2019–2025, then propose <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">one policy idea</strong> that helps cities cope with a climate risk. The challenge runs <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">November 2–13, 2026</strong> and is open to everyone. Prizes: <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">$1,000, $500 and $250</strong> in Hugging Face credits for the top three teams, plus <strong style="color:#e9edfb;font-weight:600">$2,500</strong> for the top CMU team.</p> | |
| <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/CMU-OSPO/protostar-challenge-climate-risk-intelligence" style="display:inline-block;margin:4px 0 0;padding:10px 18px;border-radius:999px;background:#FFD21E;color:#04060f;font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">Rules, data & registration ↗</a> | |
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| <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/project-protostar/README/resolve/main/assets/s04.png" alt="04 · Join the mission — Make open, AI-ready release the default" style="display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0;border-radius:0;margin-top:22px"> | |
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| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px;margin:0 0 16px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 180px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-left:4px solid #6D9BFF;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Scientific research institutions</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">For federal agencies, national labs and nonprofit research institutes: a turnkey path to open, AI-ready release and public access compliance on modern, interoperable infrastructure, with an immediate line to the open research community.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 180px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-left:4px solid #FFD21E;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Universities</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Meet sponsor-mandated research release requirements by publishing on infrastructure for open science, and connect your output directly to the community on Hugging Science.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 180px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-left:4px solid #FF9E7A;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Researchers and developers</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">ORCA and OFAI run the open challenges and hackathons with Hugging Face and other open science organizations. Everyone is welcome to compete.</div></div></div> | |
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| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px;margin:0 0 16px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 150px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #6D9BFF;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#6D9BFF99;margin-bottom:8px">01</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Get in touch</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Email <a href="mailto:protostar@orcaopen.org" style="color:#6D9BFF;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">protostar@orcaopen.org</a> with the research you would like to release and who will lead it.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 150px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #FFD21E;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#FFD21E99;margin-bottom:8px">02</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Sign the MOU</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">A short, non-binding, non-exclusive Public Access MOU with Hugging Face. <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/project-protostar/mous" style="color:#FFD21E;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">Read the ones partners have signed</a>.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 150px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #FF9E7A;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#FF9E7A99;margin-bottom:8px">03</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Open your home on the Hub</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Set up your organization on Hugging Face and the Academic Hub, with a point of contact, clear licensing and metadata.</div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;flex:1 1 150px;min-width:0;background:#0d1328;border:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22);border-top:3px solid #57E7E0;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 18px 16px"><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:40px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:#57E7E099;margin-bottom:8px">04</div><div style="font-family:Antonio,'Arial Narrow','Roboto Condensed','Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;font-size:21px;line-height:1.1;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.02em;color:#e9edfb;margin:0 0 8px">Publish and put it to work</div><div style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.7;color:#a7b2cf">Release datasets, models and code in AI-ready formats, then run a challenge with ORCA, OFAI and the open-science community.</div></div></div> | |
| <div style="margin:0 0 6px"><a href="mailto:protostar@orcaopen.org" style="display:inline-block;margin:4px 10px 8px 0;padding:10px 18px;border-radius:999px;background:#FFD21E;color:#04060f;font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">Email protostar@orcaopen.org</a><a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/CMU-OSPO/protostar-challenge-climate-risk-intelligence" style="display:inline-block;margin:4px 10px 8px 0;padding:10px 18px;border-radius:999px;border:1px solid #57E7E088;color:#57E7E0;font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">Join the CMU challenge ↗</a><a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/project-protostar/mous" style="display:inline-block;margin:4px 10px 8px 0;padding:10px 18px;border-radius:999px;border:1px solid #FFD21E88;color:#FFD21E;font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">Read the signed MOUs ↗</a></div> | |
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| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:space-between;gap:4px 14px;padding:8px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22)"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#a7b2cf;flex:1 1 320px">Channing, G. & Ghosh, A. (2025). AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem.</span><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06580" style="font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:11.5px;color:#6D9BFF;text-decoration:none;white-space:nowrap">arXiv:2509.06580 ↗</a></div> | |
| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:space-between;gap:4px 14px;padding:8px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22)"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#a7b2cf;flex:1 1 320px">Ghosh, A. & Jernite, Y. (2025). Empowering Public Organizations: Preparing Your Data for the AI Era.</span><a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/public-org-data-ai" style="font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:11.5px;color:#6D9BFF;text-decoration:none;white-space:nowrap">Hugging Face Blog ↗</a></div> | |
| <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:space-between;gap:4px 14px;padding:8px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(122,151,220,.22)"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#a7b2cf;flex:1 1 320px">Hugging Face Hub data on public science datasets and models, as of October 19, 2026.</span><a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/evijit/hf-science-growth" style="font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;font-size:11.5px;color:#6D9BFF;text-decoration:none;white-space:nowrap">hf-science-growth ↗</a></div> | |
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| <p style="font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.5px;line-height:1.75;color:#a7b2cf;margin:0px 0 14px;max-width:760px">A protostar is a star still gathering mass before it ignites — a fair description of a public science ecosystem that has the material but not yet the fusion. It is also the <a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Protostar" style="color:#FFD21E;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none">USS Protostar</a> (NCC-76884), a small experimental ship crewed by people who were not supposed to be running a starship. Both felt about right.</p> | |
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