FriendliAI and Hugging Face Announce Strategic Partnership | PR Newswire [Video]

• Developers will be able to utilize FriendliAI’s accelerated generative AI infrastructure service to deploy and serve models in the Hugging Face Hub

, /PRNewswire/ — FriendliAI, a leader in accelerated generative AI inference serving, and Hugging Face today announced a strategic partnership that allows developers to utilize FriendliAI’s inference infrastructure service to deploy and serve models directly in the Hugging Face Hub.

FriendliAI Endpoints, the fastest GPU-based generative AI inference provider according to Artificial Analysis, is now available as a deployment option on the Hugging Face platform. Directly from any model page on Hugging Face, developers can now easily deploy models using FriendliAI’s accelerated, low-cost inference endpoints. This partnership leverages the convenience of Hugging Face’s platform alongside FriendliAI’s high-performance infrastructure, enabling developers to streamline their AI development workflow and focus on innovation.

Setting up and deploying generative AI models at production scale presents challenges such as complex infrastructure management and …