From cloud to developers: Hugging Face and Microsoft Deepen Collaboration

Today at Microsoft Build we are happy to announce a broad set of new features and collaborations as Microsoft and Hugging Face deepen their strategic collaboration to make open models and open source AI easier to use everywhere. Together, we will work to enable AI builders across open science, open source, cloud, hardware and developer experiences - read on for announcements today on all fronts!

A collaboration for Cloud AI Builders

we are excited to announce two major new experiences to build AI with open models on Microsoft Azure.

Expanded HF Collection in Azure Model Catalog

A year ago, Hugging Face and Microsoft unveiled the Hugging Face Collection in the Azure Model Catalog. The Hugging Face Collection has been used by hundreds of Azure AI customers, with over a thousand open models available since its introduction. Today, we are adding some of the most popular open Large Language Models to the Hugging Face Collection to enable direct, 1-click deployment from Azure AI Studio.

The new models include Llama 3 from Meta, Mistral 7B from Mistral AI, Command R Plus from Cohere for AI, Qwen 1.5 110B from Qwen, and some of the highest performing fine-tuned models on the Open LLM Leaderboard from the Hugging Face community.

To deploy the models in your own Azure account, you can start from the model card on the Hugging Face Hub, selecting the “Deploy on Azure” option:

Or you can find model directly in Azure AI Studio within the Hugging Face Collection, and click “Deploy”

Build AI with the new AMD MI300X on Azure

Today, Microsoft made new Azure ND MI300X virtual machines (VMs) generally available on Azure, based on the latest AMD Instinct MI300 GPUs. Hugging Face collaborated with AMD and Microsoft to achieve amazing performance and cost/performance for Hugging Face models on the new virtual machines.

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