Hugging Face users can start using the AI app-building platform Vertex AI and the Kubernetes engine for model training and fine-tuning in the first half of 2024. Google's partnership with Hugging Face aims to further support the development of the open-source AI ecosystem. However, some of Google’s large language models like Gemini and the text-to-image model Imagen are not on Hugging Face and are considered more closed source models.
Key takeaways:
- Google Cloud has partnered with AI model repository Hugging Face, allowing developers to build, train, and deploy AI models without a Google Cloud subscription.
- Developers using Hugging Face’s platform will have cost-effective access to Google’s TPU and GPU supercomputers, including thousands of Nvidia’s H100s.
- Hugging Face, valued at $4.5 billion, hosts over 350,000 models on its platform for developers to work with or upload their own models, similar to GitHub.
- Google said Hugging Face users can start using the AI app-building platform Vertex AI and the Kubernetes engine for training and fine-tuning models in the first half of 2024.