As the artificial intelligence arms race heats up between Big Tech companies, Amazon Web Services is looking to develop more open-source machine learning capabilities through a partnership with Hugging Face, VentureBeat reported Feb. 28.
In 2021, Hugging Face and Amazon first partnered to combine Hugging Face's deep learning containers with Amazon's cloud-based machine learning platform, SageMaker.
This partnership will expand the availability of Hugging Face models to other AWS applications.
"Since we started offering Hugging Face natively in SageMaker, usage has been growing exponentially, and we now have more than 1,000 customers using our solutions every month," Jeff Boudier, product director at Hugging Face, told VentureBeat. "Through this new partnership, we are now working hand in hand with the engineering teams that build new efficient hardware for AI, like AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia, to build solutions that can be used directly on Elastic Compute Cloud and Elastic Kubernetes Service."