I’ve had the exact same experience. The maps are great but the navigation (at least by car) is just not there yet. I’ve tried it a bunch of times and after getting sent off the highway and along dirt roads in the middle of nowhere for no apparent reason I gave up on it.
That’s what I’ve been wondering about huggingface in general. Their hosting costs must be massive.
As for HuggingChat, it’s basically a LLM with web search capabilities. You can even choose the model that you want to use in the settings. Sort of like a more “open” Bing Chat or Gemini.