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• Google Cloud and open-source startup Hugging Face signed a deal to share hardware, cloud infrastructure, open data, and open-source models and libraries.

• The partnership meets growing enterprise demand for generative AI (GenAI) software that is optimized for specific tasks and reflects the increasing popularity of open-source applications.

Google Cloud and Hugging Face announced an agreement that will enable developers to access the Google Cloud infrastructure to fine-tune and operate Hugging Face’s open-source models without the need for a Google Cloud subscription. The partnership will also enable Google Cloud customers to train and deploy Hugging Face models within Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Vertex AI, the company’s ML platform offering Gemini, a multimodal platform from Google DeepMind. Vertex AI and GKE will be available on the Hugging Face platform during H1 2024.

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