Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI

Google Cloud’s new partnership with AI model repository Hugging Face is letting developers build, train, and deploy AI models without needing to pay for a Google Cloud subscription. Now, outside developers using Hugging Face’s platform will have “cost-effective” access to Google’s tensor processing units (TPU) and GPU supercomputers, which will include thousands of Nvidia’s in-demand and export-restricted H100s.

Hugging Face is one of the more popular AI model repositories, storing open-sourced …

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