Key Takeaways
- Hugging Face partners with Google and Amazon to offer HUGS, an open-source AI service.
- On Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean, HUGS charges $1 per hour.
- The application connects with an OpenAI-compatible API and facilitates the deployment of AI models.
Hugging Face has partnered with major tech companies like Alphabet’s Google and Amazon to provide an open-source software service.
The startup stated in a public notice on Wednesday that the new solution is intended to reduce the expenses related to creating AI models, including chatbots and other AI applications.
HUGS (Hugging Face for Generative AI Services), the recently introduced service, will be offered for $1 per hour on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. Additionally, it will be reachable through Digital Ocean, a cloud platform that smaller businesses frequently employ.
Hugging Face, which was established in 2016, has grown to be a vital forum for AI engineers to cooperate on open-source projects and exchange code. The machine-learning platform, which is presently valued at $4.5 billion, surpassed one million listings for AI models in September.
The Operation of HUGS
According to Hugging Face, the approach makes it easier to deploy AI models without the need for intricate optimization, enabling companies to grow their AI systems in a matter of minutes rather than weeks.
Through integration with an OpenAI-compatible API, HUGS also enables users to swap out current AI models. Companies will be able to install the software on their own data centers after downloading it.
This action follows the company’s recent partnership with Meta and UNESCO to launch an online language translator service in September.
With the help of Meta’s No Language Left Behind open-source AI model, the translator seeks to promote the international decade of indigenous languages by enabling free text translation in roughly 200 languages.
