Hugging Face's new AI tool can build big spreadsheets for you - for free (2025)

Hugging Face wants to make building spreadsheets a little less miserable, with the help of AI.

The company, which helps developers build and launch AI-powered apps, announced Tuesday that it has created a new spreadsheet-building platform called Sheets. Not to be confused with Google Sheets, the new tool is built with generative AI at its core and is designed to be accessible for even the most non-tech-savvy users.

What does Sheets offer?

Like most consumer-facing AI tools, Sheets is being positioned as a time-saver that can liberate human users from the tyranny of mundane tasks.

You can generate entire spreadsheets by feeding the system a single, even somewhat vague text prompt, such as: "Get me startup funding data for 2024." Or you could upload a document and ask the system to outline the number of times particular keywords are mentioned.

In terms of how Hugging Face's Sheets compares to other AI products, ChatGPT can also be prompted in natural language to generate spreadsheets, which users can copy and paste or turn into downloadable files. Claude, meanwhile, can't generate spreadsheets on its own, but it can be integrated into Google Sheets.

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The new platform from Hugging Face stands apart from other AI spreadsheet-generation tools across a handful of key metrics, according to the company:

• Sheets generates spreadsheets "significantly faster" than other AI tools.
• It offers a more fine-grained level of user control, including per-column prompt configuration, which allows you to simultaneously test an AI model's outputs for a range of different text prompts.
• The size and scale of the spreadsheets it can create are larger than those of other AI tools.
• The system is integrated with web search, enabling it to continually refine its output and reduce hallucination.
• Finally, it can be integrated with other apps, making it easy for users to get more detailed analyses of their datasets and incorporate their spreadsheets into existing workflows.

What's more, anyone should be able to use it. "Sheets requires no technical expertise, making advanced AI-powered data creation accessible to professionals across all skill levels," Hugging Face said in a press release. "The intuitive interface, combined with natural language processing, ensures that anyone can harness the power of AI for data work."

AI from the ground up

While AI tools are making it easier to quickly generate and manage spreadsheets, Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel remain the most widely used spreadsheet apps worldwide. Some AI features have been embedded into those platforms to streamline data entry and analysis; Google's Gemini chatbot, for example, can be embedded into Sheets.

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Hugging Face is aiming to differentiate itself by building AI into the foundation of its new spreadsheet tool, which it's marketing to researchers, data analysts, and other professionals. AI Sheets is available today, and you can try it for free here.

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