The company has also created a central repository of third-party customized Hugging Chat Assistants, similar to OpenAI's GPT Store. Some users in the open-source AI community have praised Hugging Chat Assistants for its user customizability and free access. However, it currently lacks some features of custom GPTs, such as web search, retrieval augmented generation, and logo generation.
Key takeaways:
- Hugging Face, a New York City-based startup, has launched third party, customizable Hugging Chat Assistants, a free product offering that allows users to create their own AI chatbots.
- The new product is similar in functionality to OpenAI’s custom GPT Builder, but unlike the latter, it does not require a paid subscription.
- Hugging Face's Hugging Chat Assistants allow users to choose from several open source large language models (LLMs) to power their AI Assistant, including Mistral’s Mixtral and Meta’s Llama 2.
- Despite some limitations compared to custom GPTs, such as lack of support for web search and retrieval augmented generation, Hugging Chat Assistants are seen as a significant development in the open source AI community.