# Hugging Face — Habana Labs and Hugging Face Partner to Accelerate Transformer Model Training

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-04-12
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/habana
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2215-habana-labs-and-hugging-face-partner-to-accelerate-transformer-model-training
- Subject: Platform

Habana Labs and Hugging Face announce a partnership to integrate Habana's SynapseAI software with Hugging Face's Optimum library, enabling faster training of transformer models on Habana Gaudi processors with minimal code changes.

## Evidence

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

> Habana® Labs, a pioneer in high-efficiency, purpose-built deep learning processors, and Hugging Face, the home of Transformer models, are happy to announce that they’re joining forces to make it easier and quicker to train high-quality transformer models.

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