This partnership is way too vague. I have to assume Google is just investing money into HF and getting some marketing and integrations in return. When deciding where to host models or which services to use for my startup, I have a hard time trusting GCP services though as being around for the long term. On the flip side, Azure and AWS you know will have support and staying power by their respective companies for as long as the companies are around.
+1, I bet it amounts to same as AWS/Microsoft: they get contact info for biz dev, a button in Inference Endpoint deployment for GCP, and mayyyyybe some custom integration to let them offer models without having a literal HF repo with the weights.
GCP sometimes shuts down their own services while still supporting them for a few years while encouraging their customers to switch to partner products.
One such example is the human-in-the-loop feature of document ai.
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This partnership is way too vague. I have to assume Google is just investing money into HF and getting some marketing and integrations in return. When deciding where to host models or which services to use for my startup, I have a hard time trusting GCP services though as being around for the long term. On the flip side, Azure and AWS you know will have support and staying power by their respective companies for as long as the companies are around.
+1, I bet it amounts to same as AWS/Microsoft: they get contact info for biz dev, a button in Inference Endpoint deployment for GCP, and mayyyyybe some custom integration to let them offer models without having a literal HF repo with the weights.
GCP sometimes shuts down their own services while still supporting them for a few years while encouraging their customers to switch to partner products.
One such example is the human-in-the-loop feature of document ai.