Google Cloud and Hugging Face: A New AI Collaboration
In a monumental step towards democratising artificial intelligence (AI) development, Hugging Face and Google Cloud have officially unveiled their strategic partnership. This groundbreaking collaboration promises to revolutionise the AI world by making it more accessible and impactful for developers, data scientists, and AI enthusiasts.
We're excited to announce our partnership between @huggingface and @Google Cloud! 🤗 We will collaborate with Google to foster open AI innovation across open science, open-source, cloud, and hardware. ðŸ§
Hugging Face’s mission has always been to empower companies to harness the power of open models and open-source technologies. Their commitment to creating an open platform has resulted in a vast community of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and developers who can effortlessly access the latest AI models. With Google Cloud as its strategic partner, Hugging Face is set to amplify its mission.
Developers using our technical infrastructure can now access and deploy Hugging Face's repository of #OpenSource AI software. Drop a 🤗 in the comments if you're excited ↓https://t.co/bRYeaOFnSf
Google’s contributions to AI research, from the original Transformer to the Vision Transformer, have been instrumental in advancing open AI science. With over a million models, datasets, and AI applications built upon transformer models hosted on Hugging Face, this partnership will further enhance the accessibility of cutting-edge AI research to the global community.
Open Source Empowerment
Google’s support for open-source tools, such as TensorFlow and JAX, has enabled researchers and data scientists to create AI models and foster continuous improvements in model performance. The collaboration with Hugging Face will accelerate the availability of the latest AI innovations through Hugging Face’s open-source libraries, regardless of the framework you prefer.
Google Cloud Integration
Our new partnership with @huggingface will give developers access to Vertex AI and our AI-optimized infrastructure to serve and train more than 100K AI models, and help accelerate the next generation of AI services and applications. https://t.co/mmWMH6XoYp
Hugging Face users on Google Cloud will experience a seamless integration of Hugging Face models into the Google Cloud ecosystem. This partnership will enable users to leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Vertex AI for training and deploying Hugging Face models. Google Cloud’s unique hardware capabilities, including TPUs, NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and Intel Sapphire Rapid CPUs, will provide users with powerful resources to enhance their AI applications.
Enhanced Experiences for Hugging Face Hub Users
The collaboration between Google Cloud and Hugging Face will benefit millions of researchers, data scientists, developers, and AI enthusiasts who rely on the Hugging Face Hub. Users can anticipate new experiences in open science, open source, and Google integration throughout 2024. With the ability to deploy models on Google Cloud with Inference Endpoints and harness the power of TPUs on Hugging Face Spaces, AI builders will have unprecedented opportunities to accelerate their applications.
What’s on the Horizon for Google Cloud?
For me, Google is the #1 AI company in the world and kickstarted the whole revolution with "Attention is all you need", BERT, T5 and many more.
Exciting announcements are on the horizon, starting this quarter. The CEOs of Google Cloud and Hugging Face are enthusiastic about this partnership, emphasising their shared vision of making generative AI more accessible and impactful for developers. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, envisions developers gaining access to Google Cloud’s purpose-built AI platform, Vertex AI, combined with Hugging Face’s secure infrastructure. Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, highlights the ease with which users can leverage open models and optimised AI infrastructure to advance their AI endeavours.
Looking Forward
The partnership between Hugging Face and Google Cloud marks a significant milestone in AI. As we move into 2024, developers and AI enthusiasts can look forward to a future where cutting-edge AI research and tools are more accessible. With the combined expertise of these two giants in the industry, the possibilities for innovation and AI advancement are limitless. Stay tuned for the transformative developments that await us in this exciting era of AI collaboration.
