# Hugging Face — From OpenAI to Open LLMs with Messages API on Hugging Face

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/tgi-messages-api
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1943-from-openai-to-open-llms-with-messages-api-on-hugging-face

Hugging Face announces the Messages API for TGI and Inference Endpoints, providing OpenAI Chat Completion API compatibility.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/tgi-messages-api:

> We are excited to introduce the Messages API to provide OpenAI compatibility with Text Generation Inference (TGI) and Inference Endpoints.

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