# Hugging Face — From cloud to developers: Hugging Face and Microsoft Deepen Collaboration

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Llama 3, Mistral 7B, Command R Plus, Qwen 1.5 110B, Phi-3, Phi-3 mini
- License: MIT
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft-collaboration
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1888-from-cloud-to-developers-hugging-face-and-microsoft-deepen-collaboration

Hugging Face and Microsoft announced a deepened strategic collaboration at Microsoft Build 2024, including expanded Hugging Face Collection in Azure Model Catalog with new models (Llama 3, Mistral 7B, Command R Plus, Qwen 1.5 110B), new AMD MI300X VMs on Azure, open science collaboration with Phi-3 models (MIT license), open source collaboration with ONNX Runtime and WebGPU, and a new Spaces Dev Mode integration with VS Code for developers.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft-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.

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