Hugging Face
Hugging Face is a very prominent player in the NLP space and has considerable traction in open-source and hosting solutions. The company is a French American company that develops tools for building ML applications. Its employees develop and maintain the Transformers Python library, which is used for NLP tasks, includes implementations of state-of-the-art and popular models like Mistral 7B, BERT, and GPT-2, and is compatible with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
In addition to their products, Hugging Face has been involved in initiatives such as the BigScience Research Workshop, where they released an open LLM called BLOOM with 176 billion parameters. Hugging Face has also established partnerships with companies like Graphcore and Amazon Web Services to optimize their offerings and make them available to a broader customer base.
LangChain supports leveraging the Hugging Face Hub, which provides access to a massive number of models, datasets in various languages and...