What will each party gain from the contract they signed? The first few sections left me with a lot of questions.<p>From what I can tell, based on the later sections:<p>> <i>new experiences for Google Cloud customers to easily train and deploy Hugging Face models within Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Vertex AI</i><p>I assume that means a new API field like `huggingface_model: "google/flan-t5-base"`?<p>> <i>Models will be easily deployed for production on Google Cloud with Inference Endpoints</i><p>That seems to mean the GCP button which is currently disabled in the Inference "Create a new endpoint" page (<a href="https://ui.endpoints.huggingface.co" rel="nofollow">https://ui.endpoints.huggingface.co</a>) will now be enabled, which is the clearest part of the announcement.
Maybe it’s a naive question, but here we go: Following HF for a while in the industry, despite all the UI/UX, what’s the business use case to use them instead a “s3” to distribute the models or some kind of torrent for a non-centralised model distribution?<p>After the whole debacle around the GPT4chan[1] and the whole gating mechanism for models, it’s hard for me to think how some entity can trust that they are not going to shutdown or do gating due to some ToS shenanigans. In other words: if you’re this man in the middle between models and clients, it’s not better to treat yourself as a “dumb pipe”?<p>N.B.: I think the company has a great culture seeing from the outside and I assume that I can be misinformed about their business model.<p>[1] - <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT4-Chan" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT4-Chan</a>
I still remember google partnering up with XMPP.
Could be lead and consume strategy (or lead, make confusing and slow down development).<p>Though tensorflow was made by google and it is pretty good library.
Ahh the old "We've partnered with one of the largest proprietary software developers in the world to somehow improve open source things" trope never gets old.
A lot of folks here being critical of the partnership because Google hasn’t open sourced all of their models, etc.<p>Not too defend Google, but they have arguably the deepest AI knowledge in the industry and released many of the fundamental building blocks for today’s AI boom (transformers, Tensorflow, etc.)