The Github Of Ai Is Named After An Emoji — And Microsoft Has Its Fingers In It Already

Hugging Face is a platform on which developers can discuss anything from bug tracking to API integration to overall project development. The platform is renowned for its large library, Transformers, which powers the creation of solutions based on the AI subsets of Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, and computer vision. Last year, the company closed a $100 million funding round that placed its valuation at $2 billion. Microsoft, which acquired the hosting service GitHub in 2018 and pumped some $10 billion into OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT project in January, is already an anchor user of the platform. Microsoft and Hugging Face have partnered to bring open-source models to Azure Machine Learning platform.