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Machine Learning Is as Easy as an API, Says Hugging Face

AI right now seems like the domain of elite experts, but startup https://huggingface.co/ plans to “democratize good machine learning” by making it as easy as deploying a https://thenewstack.io/how-to-automate-and-scale-your-rest-api-tests/. Hugging Face offers opens source machine learning (ML) models for free on its community site, while charging a fee for infrastructure and service support. “One, we make it really easy to use and so if you have a use case for machine learning within your app, then it’s super easy to come to Hugging Face, find a model, deploy an API and just build,” Boudier told The New Stack.

Instead, Phamily leveraged Hugging Face’s Inference Endpoints, which allows developers to deploy machine learning models on a fully managed infrastructure.

Although Hugging Face started with natural language processing, developers will find two newer types of machine learning models on the site — transformers and diffusers.