Amazon’s cloud division AWS has extended the agreement it had with an Artificial Intelligence startup what is developing a rival of ChatGPT. Is about hugging facewhose products will be available to customers in the company’s cloud area who want to use this type of tools to build their own applications.
Hugging Face is developing, as we have mentioned, a language generation tool capable of competing with ChatGPT technology. The development of the next version of this language model, which is known as blossom, will take place on AWS. This has been assured by AWS Vice President of Databases, Analytics and Machine Learning, Swami Sivasubramanian.
It’s not the only thing the Hugging Face template is working on. In addition, they are developing open source rivals for ChatGPT, for which it will also use AWS. In general, according to Bloomberg, the company is dedicated to the development of products related to Artificial Intelligence, in addition to functioning as a host for AI products developed by other companies.
According to Sivasubramanian, there are more than 100,000 AWS customers using AI applications in the cloud. All of them, along with those who contract the services of Amazon’s cloud division, will be able to access Hugging Face’s AI tools through the Amazon SageMaker program.
As for Hugging Face’s employees, its software developers will be able to use the cloud computing power of AWS, as well as its chips designed for Artificial Intelligence tasks. The financial terms of the deal are unknown, but Amazon has already confirmed that it has not invested in the startup.
This is not the first AI agreement signed by AWS. It already has others with Stability AI, developer of the Stable Diffusion imaging tool (a competitor to Dall-E), and with Israeli startup AI21 Lans, which develops Jurassic, another rival language model to ChatGPT. Everything, according to Sivasubramanian, because “there should not be just one model that dominates the world. It’s better for developers to have a wide variety of them.”
Bloom, the model for Hugging Face, trained on a publicly available supercomputer located in France: Jean Zay. Last year, the company raised $100 million in funding from a variety of investors, including Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital and Coatue Management. At a private level, the NBA player Kevin Durant also invested in it.
Currently, the Hugging Face Artificial Intelligence model repository doubles as a GitHub for machine learning toolswhere developers can share their work and collaborate.
