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AI dev platformHugging Facehas partner with third - party cloud trafficker , includingSambaNova , to set in motion Inference Providers , a feature article designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to bleed AI models using the infrastructure of their choice .

Other partners involve with the new effort include Fal , Replicate , andTogether AI .

Hugging Face says its partners have worked with it to build access to their several data centre for running model into Hugging Face ’s platform . Now , developers on Hugging Face can , for lesson , twirl up a DeepSeek model on SambaNova ’s server from a Hugging Face project varlet in just a few clicks .

Hugging Face has long offered its own in - sign answer for running AI models . But in ablog postTuesday , the company explained that its focus has shift to quislingism , depot , and model dispersion potentiality .

“ Serverless providers have flourished , and the clip was right for Hugging Face to offer easy and incorporate access to serverless illation through a set of great provider , ” the company write in the post . “ [ I]t was natural to partner with the next generation of serverless illation providers for model - centrical , serverless illation . ”

Serverless illation lets developers deploy and scale AI models without configure or managing any of the underlying hardware .   Providers like SambaNova mechanically launch the necessary computer science resources and scale them up or down depending on usage .

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Founded in 2016 as a chatbot startup , Hugging Face has become one of the largest AI model hosting and development platforms globally . To particular date , Hugging Face has raise close to $ 400 million in Washington from investor including Salesforce , Google , Amazon , and Nvidia . The company claim to be profitable .