# Hugging Face — Hugging Face and Graphcore partner for IPU-optimized Transformers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-09-14
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/graphcore
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2251-hugging-face-and-graphcore-partner-for-ipu-optimized-transformers
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: BERT, CamemBERT, ViT

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.

## Evidence

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

> 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.

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