Google Cloud has announced a partnership with French-American open source artificial intelligence firm Hugging Face in an effort to attract AI developers.

In a blog post, Hugging Face said that it will collaborate with Google across open science, open source, cloud, and hardware to “enable companies to build their own AI with the latest open models from Hugging Face and the latest cloud and hardware features from Google Cloud”.

Developers using Google Cloud’s technical infrastructure will be able to train and deploy Hugging Face models within Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Vertex AI, the company said.

Thomas Kurian, chief exec of Google Cloud, said: “Google Cloud and Hugging Face share a vision for making generative AI more accessible and impactful for developers. This partnership ensures that developers on Hugging Face will have access to Google Cloud’s purpose-built, AI platform, Vertex AI, along with our secure infrastructure, which can accelerate the next generation of AI services and applications.”

Hugging Face boss Clement Delangue added: “With this new partnership, we will make it easy for Hugging Face users and Google Cloud customers to leverage the latest open models together with leading optimised AI infrastructure and tools from Google Cloud including Vertex AI and TPUs to meaningfully advance developers ability to build their own AI models.”

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