# Hugging Face — Microsoft and Hugging Face expand collaboration

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-05-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Microsoft Phi-4 Reasoning Plus
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/azure-ai-foundry
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1695-microsoft-and-hugging-face-expand-collaboration

Hugging Face and Microsoft announced an expanded collaboration to make a wide diversity of open models easy to deploy on Azure AI Foundry, with over 10,000 models now available in the Model Catalog, featuring models that have passed security tests and are stored in safetensors format.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/azure-ai-foundry:

> Today at the Microsoft Build conference, Satya Nadella announced an expanded collaboration with Hugging Face, to make its wide diversity of open models easy to deploy on Azure secure infrastructure.

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