AI right now seems like the domain of elite experts, but startup Hugging Face plans to “democratize good machine learning” by making it as

Machine Learning Is as Easy as an API, Says Hugging Face

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2023-02-07 15:00:06

AI right now seems like the domain of elite experts, but startup Hugging Face plans to “democratize good machine learning” by making it as easy as deploying a REST API.

This isn’t theoretical — it’s possible now, with use cases in frontend and web applications, explained Jeff Boudier, head of product and growth at the startup. Hugging Face offers opens source machine learning (ML) models for free on its community site, while charging a fee for infrastructure and service support.

“One, we make it really easy to use and so if you have a use case for machine learning within your app, then it’s super easy to come to Hugging Face, find a model, deploy an API and just build,” Boudier told The New Stack. “The second thing is [that] we want to make machine learning very accessible.”

Boudier shared how healthcare company Phamily used Hugging Face. The company helps medical groups manage in-house chronic care management service lines for between patient visits. It needed to leverage machine learning models to classify and triage the messages automatically.

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