# Hugging Face — Graphcore and Hugging Face Launch New Lineup of IPU-Ready Transformers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-05-26
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/graphcore-update
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2191-graphcore-and-hugging-face-launch-new-lineup-of-ipu-ready-transformers
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: ViT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, DeBERTa, BART, LXMERT, T5, HuBERT, Wav2Vec2, BERT

Graphcore and Hugging Face expanded the Optimum library with 10 IPU-ready Transformer models covering NLP, Speech, and Computer Vision.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/graphcore-update:

> Graphcore and Hugging Face have significantly expanded the range of Machine Learning modalities and tasks available in Hugging Face Optimum, an open-source library for Transformers performance optimization. Developers now have convenient access to a wide range of off-the-shelf Hugging Face Transformer models, optimised to deliver the best possible performance on Graphcore’s IPU.

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