# Hugging Face — Getting Started with Hugging Face Transformers for IPUs with Optimum

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-11-30
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/graphcore-getting-started
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2238-getting-started-with-hugging-face-transformers-for-ipus-with-optimum
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: BERT

Hugging Face and Graphcore announce Optimum integration for IPUs, enabling developers to accelerate Transformer models like BERT on Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit with minimal code changes.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/graphcore-getting-started:

> Through this partnership between Graphcore and Hugging Face, we are now introducing BERT as the first IPU-optimized model.

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