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slot off a $100 million funding round, Hugging Face, which provides hosted AI services and a community-driven portal for AI tools and data sets, today announced a new product in collaboration with Microsoft. Called Hugging Face Endpoints on Azure, Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue described it as a way to turn Hugging Face-developed AI models into "scalable production solutions."
"The mission of Hugging Face is to democratize good machine learning," Delangue said in a press release. "We’re striving to help every developer and organization build high-quality, machine learning-powered applications that have a positive impact on society and businesses. With Hugging Face Endpoints, we’ve made it simpler than ever to deploy state-of-the-art models, and we can’t wait to see what Azure customers will build with them."
The demand for AI remains high. According to a recent McKinsey survey, nearly two-thirds of companies plan to increase their investments in AI over the next two years. But implementing AI from scratch can be challenging