# Hugging Face — Intel and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize Machine Learning Hardware Acceleration

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-06-15
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/intel
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2187-intel-and-hugging-face-partner-to-democratize-machine-learning-hardware
- Subject: Platform

Intel joins Hugging Face's Hardware Partner Program to collaborate on hardware acceleration for Transformer models, leveraging Intel Xeon CPUs and AI software tools, and introducing the Optimum Intel open-source library for model optimization.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/intel:

> Intel and Hugging Face will collaborate to build state-of-the-art hardware acceleration to train, fine-tune and predict with Transformers.

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