AI BriefingHugging Face-Microsoft Announce Expanded AI Collaboration
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Hugging Face and Microsoft are strengthening their strategic collaboration, including deploying open models via Azure and optimizing for AMD GPUs.
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At Microsoft Build 2024, Hugging Face and Microsoft announced a broad collaboration plan to increase the accessibility of open source AI models.
Accelerating Open Model Deployment via Azure The Hugging Face Collection within the Azure Model Catalog has been expanded, enabling one-click instant deployment of major open LLMs such as Llama 3, Mistral 7B, Command R Plus, and Qwen 1.5 on Azure AI Studio.
AMD MI300X GPU Optimization Microsoft officially launched Azure ND MI300X VMs equipped with the latest AMD Instinct MI300X GPU. Hugging Face collaborated to maximize model performance and cost efficiency on this hardware through the Optimum-AMD library.
Strengthening the Open Source and Model Ecosystem
- Microsoft continues to release high-performance open models such as Phi-3 on the Hugging Face Hub.
- Developer experience is being improved through model export via ONNX Runtime and local inference technology using WebGPU (Transformers.js).
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