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Quick 30s demo of the new Hub > Azure AI integration to deploy HF models in your own Azure account. Now with Py and CLI!
GG @alvarobartt @kramp @pagezyhf
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🚀 Optimum: The Last v1 Release 🚀
Optimum v1.27 marks the final major release in the v1 series. As we close this chapter, we're laying the groundwork for a more modular and community-driven future:
- Optimum v2: A lightweight core package for porting Transformers, Diffusers, or Sentence-Transformers to specialized AI hardware/software/accelerators..
- Optimum‑ONNX: A dedicated package where the ONNX/ONNX Runtime ecosystem lives and evolves, faster-moving and decoupled from the Optimum core.
🎯 Why this matters:
- A clearer governance path for ONNX, fostering stronger community collaboration and improved developer experience..
- Enable innovation at a faster pace in a more modular, open-source environment.
💡 What this means:
- More transparency, broader participation, and faster development driven by the community and key actors in the ONNX ecosystem (PyTorch, Microsoft, Joshua Lochner 👀, ...)
- A cleaner, more maintainable core Optimum, focused on extending HF libraries to special AI hardware/software/accelerators tooling and used by our partners (Intel Corporation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AMD, NVIDIA, FuriosaAI, ...)
🛠️ Major updates I worked on in this release:
✅ Added support for Transformers v4.53 and SmolLM3 in ONNX/ONNXRuntime.
✅ Solved batched inference/generation for all supported decoder model architectures (LLMs).
✨ Big shoutout to @echarlaix for leading the refactoring work that cleanly separated ONNX exporter logic and enabled the creation of Optimum‑ONNX.
📝 Release Notes: https://lnkd.in/gXtE_qji
📦 Optimum : https://lnkd.in/ecAezNT6
🎁 Optimum-ONNX: https://lnkd.in/gzjyAjSi
#Optimum #ONNX #OpenSource #HuggingFace #Transformers #Diffusers
Optimum v1.27 marks the final major release in the v1 series. As we close this chapter, we're laying the groundwork for a more modular and community-driven future:
- Optimum v2: A lightweight core package for porting Transformers, Diffusers, or Sentence-Transformers to specialized AI hardware/software/accelerators..
- Optimum‑ONNX: A dedicated package where the ONNX/ONNX Runtime ecosystem lives and evolves, faster-moving and decoupled from the Optimum core.
🎯 Why this matters:
- A clearer governance path for ONNX, fostering stronger community collaboration and improved developer experience..
- Enable innovation at a faster pace in a more modular, open-source environment.
💡 What this means:
- More transparency, broader participation, and faster development driven by the community and key actors in the ONNX ecosystem (PyTorch, Microsoft, Joshua Lochner 👀, ...)
- A cleaner, more maintainable core Optimum, focused on extending HF libraries to special AI hardware/software/accelerators tooling and used by our partners (Intel Corporation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AMD, NVIDIA, FuriosaAI, ...)
🛠️ Major updates I worked on in this release:
✅ Added support for Transformers v4.53 and SmolLM3 in ONNX/ONNXRuntime.
✅ Solved batched inference/generation for all supported decoder model architectures (LLMs).
✨ Big shoutout to @echarlaix for leading the refactoring work that cleanly separated ONNX exporter logic and enabled the creation of Optimum‑ONNX.
📝 Release Notes: https://lnkd.in/gXtE_qji
📦 Optimum : https://lnkd.in/ecAezNT6
🎁 Optimum-ONNX: https://lnkd.in/gzjyAjSi
#Optimum #ONNX #OpenSource #HuggingFace #Transformers #Diffusers
jeffboudier
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AMD summer hackathons are here!
A chance to get hands-on with MI300X GPUs and accelerate models.
🇫🇷 Paris - Station F - July 5-6
🇮🇳 Mumbai - July 12-13
🇮🇳 Bengaluru - July 19-20
Hugging Face and GPU Mode will be on site and on July 6 in Paris @ror will share lessons learned while building new kernels to accelerate Llama 3.1 405B on ROCm
Register to Paris event: https://lu.ma/fmvdjmur?tk=KeAbiP
All dates: https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-3sxhD5FdxWsMDIz
A chance to get hands-on with MI300X GPUs and accelerate models.
🇫🇷 Paris - Station F - July 5-6
🇮🇳 Mumbai - July 12-13
🇮🇳 Bengaluru - July 19-20
Hugging Face and GPU Mode will be on site and on July 6 in Paris @ror will share lessons learned while building new kernels to accelerate Llama 3.1 405B on ROCm
Register to Paris event: https://lu.ma/fmvdjmur?tk=KeAbiP
All dates: https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-3sxhD5FdxWsMDIz
jeffboudier
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Today we launched Training Cluster as a Service, to make the new DGX Cloud Lepton supercloud easily accessible to AI researchers.
Hugging Face will collaborate with NVIDIA to provision and set up GPU training clusters to make them available for the duration of training runs.
Hugging Face organizations can sign up here: https://huggingface.co/training-cluster
Hugging Face will collaborate with NVIDIA to provision and set up GPU training clusters to make them available for the duration of training runs.
Hugging Face organizations can sign up here: https://huggingface.co/training-cluster
jeffboudier
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👏 Congrats
@jinanz
adding TimesFM times series forecasting to Transformers!
Learn how to use TimesFM in this blog post by the Nutanix team: https://huggingface.co/blog/Nutanix/introducing-timesfm-for-time-series-forcasting
Learn how to use TimesFM in this blog post by the Nutanix team: https://huggingface.co/blog/Nutanix/introducing-timesfm-for-time-series-forcasting
jeffboudier
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Wrapping up a week of shipping and announcements with Dell Enterprise Hub now featuring AI Applications, on-device models for AI PCs, a new CLI and Python SDK... all you need for building AI on premises!
Blog post has all the details: https://huggingface.co/blog/dell-ai-applications
Blog post has all the details: https://huggingface.co/blog/dell-ai-applications
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It will be very interesting to benchmark how energy-efficient the new Falcon-Edge is: https://huggingface.co/blog/tiiuae/falcon-edge
Should be super efficient on CPU according to the numbers published for BitNet: https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet/blob/main/assets/intel_performance.jpg
Should be super efficient on CPU according to the numbers published for BitNet: https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet/blob/main/assets/intel_performance.jpg
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jeffboudier
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Transcribing 1 hour of audio for less than $0.01 🤯
@mfuntowicz cooked with 8x faster Whisper speech recognition - whisper-large-v3-turbo transcribes at 100x real time on a $0.80/hr L4 GPU!
How they did it: https://huggingface.co/blog/fast-whisper-endpoints
1-click deploy with HF Inference Endpoints: https://endpoints.huggingface.co/new?repository=openai%2Fwhisper-large-v3-turbo&vendor=aws®ion=us-east&accelerator=gpu&instance_id=aws-us-east-1-nvidia-l4-x1&task=automatic-speech-recognition&no_suggested_compute=true
@mfuntowicz cooked with 8x faster Whisper speech recognition - whisper-large-v3-turbo transcribes at 100x real time on a $0.80/hr L4 GPU!
How they did it: https://huggingface.co/blog/fast-whisper-endpoints
1-click deploy with HF Inference Endpoints: https://endpoints.huggingface.co/new?repository=openai%2Fwhisper-large-v3-turbo&vendor=aws®ion=us-east&accelerator=gpu&instance_id=aws-us-east-1-nvidia-l4-x1&task=automatic-speech-recognition&no_suggested_compute=true
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So many orgs on HF would really benefit from security and governance built into Enterprise Hub - I wrote a guide on why and how upgrade: https://huggingface.co/spaces/jeffboudier/how-to-upgrade-to-enterprise
For instance, did you know about Resource Groups?
For instance, did you know about Resource Groups?
jeffboudier
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Llama4 is out and Scout is already on the Dell Enterprise Hub to deploy on Dell systems 👉 dell.huggingface.co
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Enterprise orgs now enable serverless Inference Providers for all members
- includes $2 free usage per org member (e.g. an Enterprise org with 1,000 members share $2,000 free credit each month)
- admins can set a monthly spend limit for the entire org
- works today with Together, fal, Novita, Cerebras and HF Inference.
Here's the doc to bill Inference Providers usage to your org: https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing#organization-billing
- includes $2 free usage per org member (e.g. an Enterprise org with 1,000 members share $2,000 free credit each month)
- admins can set a monthly spend limit for the entire org
- works today with Together, fal, Novita, Cerebras and HF Inference.
Here's the doc to bill Inference Providers usage to your org: https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing#organization-billing
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Nice paper comparing the fp8 inference efficiency of Nvidia H100 and Intel Gaudi2:
An Investigation of FP8 Across Accelerators for LLM Inference (2502.01070)
The conclusion is interesting: "Our findings highlight that the Gaudi 2, by leveraging FP8, achieves higher throughput-to-power efficiency during LLM inference"
One aspect of AI hardware accelerators that is often overlooked is how they consume less energy than GPUs. It's nice to see researchers starting carrying out experiments to measure this!
Gaudi3 results soon...
The conclusion is interesting: "Our findings highlight that the Gaudi 2, by leveraging FP8, achieves higher throughput-to-power efficiency during LLM inference"
One aspect of AI hardware accelerators that is often overlooked is how they consume less energy than GPUs. It's nice to see researchers starting carrying out experiments to measure this!
Gaudi3 results soon...
jeffboudier
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NVIDIA just announced the Cosmos World Foundation Models, available on the Hub:
nvidia/cosmos-6751e884dc10e013a0a0d8e6
Cosmos is a family of pre-trained models purpose-built for generating physics-aware videos and world states to advance physical AI development.
The release includes Tokenizers nvidia/cosmos-tokenizer-672b93023add81b66a8ff8e6
Learn more in this great community article by @mingyuliutw and @PranjaliJoshi https://huggingface.co/blog/mingyuliutw/nvidia-cosmos
Cosmos is a family of pre-trained models purpose-built for generating physics-aware videos and world states to advance physical AI development.
The release includes Tokenizers nvidia/cosmos-tokenizer-672b93023add81b66a8ff8e6
Learn more in this great community article by @mingyuliutw and @PranjaliJoshi https://huggingface.co/blog/mingyuliutw/nvidia-cosmos
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Nice to see day 1 support of Falcon 3 on Gaudi with Optimum Habana!
👉 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-ai-solutions-support-falcon-3-fdn-models.html
👉 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-ai-solutions-support-falcon-3-fdn-models.html
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New - add your bluesky account to your HF profile:
https://huggingface.co/settings/profile
Is the grass greener, the sky bluer? Will try and figure it out at https://bsky.app/profile/jeffboudier.bsky.social
By the way, HF people starter pack https://bsky.app/starter-pack/huggingface.bsky.social/3laz5x7naiz22
https://huggingface.co/settings/profile
Is the grass greener, the sky bluer? Will try and figure it out at https://bsky.app/profile/jeffboudier.bsky.social
By the way, HF people starter pack https://bsky.app/starter-pack/huggingface.bsky.social/3laz5x7naiz22
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Interested in performing inference with an ONNX model?⚡️
The Optimum docs about model inference with ONNX Runtime is now much clearer and simpler!
You want to deploy your favorite model on the hub but you don't know how to export it to the ONNX format? You can do it in one line of code as follows:
Check out the whole guide 👉 https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum/onnxruntime/usage_guides/models
The Optimum docs about model inference with ONNX Runtime is now much clearer and simpler!
You want to deploy your favorite model on the hub but you don't know how to export it to the ONNX format? You can do it in one line of code as follows:
from optimum.onnxruntime import ORTModelForSequenceClassification
# Load the model from the hub and export it to the ONNX format
model_id = "distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english"
model = ORTModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_id, export=True)Check out the whole guide 👉 https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum/onnxruntime/usage_guides/models
jeffboudier
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This week in Inference Endpoints - thx
@erikkaum
for the update!
👀 https://huggingface.co/blog/erikkaum/endpoints-changelog
👀 https://huggingface.co/blog/erikkaum/endpoints-changelog
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jeffboudier
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Inference Endpoints got a bunch of cool updates yesterday, this is my top 3
jeffboudier
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Pro Tip - if you're a Firefox user, you can set up Hugging Chat as integrated AI Assistant, with contextual links to summarize or simplify any text - handy!
In this short video I show how to set it up
In this short video I show how to set it up
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Last week, Intel's new Xeon CPUs, Sapphire Rapids (SPR), landed on Inference Endpoints and I think they got the potential to reduce the cost of your RAG pipelines 💸
Why ? Because they come with Intel® AMX support, which is a set of instructions that support and accelerate BF16 and INT8 matrix multiplications on CPU ⚡
I went ahead and built a Space to showcase how to efficiently deploy embedding models on SPR for both Retrieving and Ranking documents, with Haystack compatible components: https://huggingface.co/spaces/optimum-intel/haystack-e2e
Here's how it works:
- Document Store: A FAISS document store containing the seven-wonders dataset, embedded, indexed and stored on the Space's persistent storage to avoid unnecessary re-computation of embeddings.
- Retriever: It embeds the query at runtime and retrieves from the dataset N documents that are most semantically similar to the query's embedding.
We use the small variant of the BGE family here because we want a model that's fast to run on the entire dataset and has a small embedding space for fast similarity search. Specifically we use an INT8 quantized bge-small-en-v1.5, deployed on an Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU instance.
- Ranker: It re-embeds the retrieved documents at runtime and re-ranks them based on semantic similarity to the query's embedding. We use the large variant of the BGE family here because it's optimized for accuracy allowing us to filter the most relevant k documents that we'll use in the LLM prompt. Specifically we use an INT8 quantized bge-large-en-v1.5, deployed on an Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU instance.
Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/optimum-intel/haystack-e2e
Retriever IE: optimum-intel/fastrag-retriever
Ranker IE: optimum-intel/fastrag-ranker
Why ? Because they come with Intel® AMX support, which is a set of instructions that support and accelerate BF16 and INT8 matrix multiplications on CPU ⚡
I went ahead and built a Space to showcase how to efficiently deploy embedding models on SPR for both Retrieving and Ranking documents, with Haystack compatible components: https://huggingface.co/spaces/optimum-intel/haystack-e2e
Here's how it works:
- Document Store: A FAISS document store containing the seven-wonders dataset, embedded, indexed and stored on the Space's persistent storage to avoid unnecessary re-computation of embeddings.
- Retriever: It embeds the query at runtime and retrieves from the dataset N documents that are most semantically similar to the query's embedding.
We use the small variant of the BGE family here because we want a model that's fast to run on the entire dataset and has a small embedding space for fast similarity search. Specifically we use an INT8 quantized bge-small-en-v1.5, deployed on an Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU instance.
- Ranker: It re-embeds the retrieved documents at runtime and re-ranks them based on semantic similarity to the query's embedding. We use the large variant of the BGE family here because it's optimized for accuracy allowing us to filter the most relevant k documents that we'll use in the LLM prompt. Specifically we use an INT8 quantized bge-large-en-v1.5, deployed on an Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU instance.
Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/optimum-intel/haystack-e2e
Retriever IE: optimum-intel/fastrag-retriever
Ranker IE: optimum-intel/fastrag-ranker