Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI

Hugging Face is one of the more popular AI model repositories, storing open-sourced foundation models like Meta’s Llama 2 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. It also has many databases for model training.

There are over 350,000 models hosted on the platform for developers to work with or upload their own models to Hugging Face, much like coders put their code up on GitHub. Valued at $4.5 billion, Hugging Face has seen Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and others help raise $235 million over the…