Welcome to Inference Providers on the Hub 🔥
What changed
Welcome to Inference Providers on the Hub 🔥 We’ve been hosting a serverless Inference API on the Hub for a long time (we launched the v1 in summer 2020 – wow, time flies 🤯). While this has enabled easy exploration and prototyping, we’ve refined our core value proposition towards collaboration, storage, versioning, and distribution of large datasets and models with the community. Hugging Face developers now have access to much faster inference speeds on a wide range of the best open source models." Zeke Sikelianos, Founding Designer at Replicate: "Hugging Face is the de facto home of open-source model weights, and has been a key player in making AI more accessible to the world.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Public AI on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
- Groq on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
- Welcome Gemma 2 - Google’s new open LLM
Sources
- Welcome to Inference Providers on the Hub 🔥 (huggingface-blog)primary