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Hugging Face and Graphcore announced a partnership to make IPU-optimized Transformer models available through Hugging Face's Hardware Partner Program and the Optimum library.
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Hugging Face and Graphcore announced a partnership to make IPU-optimized Transformer models available through Hugging Face's Hardware Partner Program and the Optimum library.
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Speaking at the 2021 AI Hardware Summit, Hugging Face announced the launch of their new Hardware Partner Program, including device-optimized models and software integrations. Here, Graphcore - creators of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) and a founding member of the program – explain how their partnership with Hugging Face will allow developers to easily accelerate their use of state-of-the-art Transformer models.