Hugging Face

The open-source AI model hub. Inference API plus model hosting.

Hugging Face hosts hundreds of thousands of open-source models. Use the Inference API to call any of them, or deploy specialty models for your own use.

Full walkthrough being written.

Common uses

• Specialty embedding models
• Niche language models for unique tasks
• Image classification / object detection
• Sentiment analysis on user content

Setup

HUGGINGFACE_API_TOKEN in vly secrets. Call via the Inference API or via @huggingface/inference SDK.

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