Amazon, AI startup Hugging Face pair to use Amazon chips

Amazon.com’s cloud unit on Wednesday said it has partnered with artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face to make it easier to run thousands of AI models on Amazon’s custom computing chips.

Valued at $4.5 billion, Hugging Face has become a central hub for AI researchers and developers to share chatbots and other AI software and is backed by Amazon, Alphabet’s Google and Nvidia, among others. It is the main place that developers go to obtain and tinker with open-source AI models such as Meta Platforms’ Llama 3.