{"id":17643,"date":"2024-08-10T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T01:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2024-08-10T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T01:39:28","slug":"hugging-face-%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad%e8%a5%bf%e9%9b%85%e5%9b%be%e6%95%b0%e6%8d%ae%e5%ad%98%e5%82%a8%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8-xethub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/17643.html","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face acquires Seattle data storage startup XetHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the well-known AI development platform<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/hugging-face\" title=\"[See articles with [Hugging Face] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Hugging Face<\/a>Acquisition announced<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/xethub\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >XetHub<\/a>, founded by former Apple engineers<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%95%b0%e6%8d%ae%e5%ad%98%e5%82%a8\" title=\"[See articles with [data storage] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Data storage<\/a>and collaborative startups. This move will undoubtedly bring more convenience to AI developers and accelerate the democratization of artificial intelligence!<\/p>\n<p>XetHub&#039;s story began in 2021, when it was co-founded by former Apple engineers Yucheng Low, Rajat Arya, and Ajit Banerjee. This dynamic team quickly gained industry recognition with the vision of simplifying the process of building machine learning and AI applications. Last year, they raised $7.5 million in funding from Madrona Ventures, laying the foundation for the company&#039;s rapid development.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of XetHub, Yuchen Low, enthusiastically said on LinkedIn: Our common vision is to democratize artificial intelligence so that everyone can host, share and build models and data sets. In Hugging Face, we will continue to pursue this vision by integrating our technology into Hugging Face Hub and creating the future of artificial intelligence collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pgc-img\" data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17644\" title=\"get-255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/get-255.jpg\" alt=\"get-255\" width=\"562\" height=\"851\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As the protagonist of this acquisition, New York-based Hugging Face has established a strong influence in the field of AI development. The development tools they provide help many companies test, store and run large-scale AI models that require a lot of computing and storage capabilities. Just one year ago, Hugging Face raised $235 million in Series D financing, showing investors&#039; confidence in its development prospects. In June of this year, they acquired another development tool startup called Argilla for $10 million, further expanding their technical strength.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hugging Face did not disclose the specific amount of the acquisition, they emphasized that this is the company&#039;s largest acquisition to date. This acquisition is not only a technology integration, but also a gathering of talents. XetHub&#039;s 14 employees will join the Hugging Face team and inject new innovative power into the company.<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition is not an isolated case, but reflects the overall trend of the current AI industry. As the AI craze continues to heat up, we see more and more small AI startups and their executives being acquired by large companies. This not only reflects the huge data storage and computing needs brought about by the development of artificial intelligence, but also indicates that the trend of industry consolidation is accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>As the co-founder of XetHub, Rajat Arya, said: \u201cTo date, this artificial intelligence function has been limited to those large companies, but we will increasingly see each enterprise employing artificial intelligence.\u201d With the strong combination of Hugging Face and XetHub, we have reason to believe that the development of AI will become easier and the democratization of artificial intelligence will accelerate further\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Hugging Face, a well-known AI development platform, announced the acquisition of XetHub, a data storage and collaboration startup founded by a former Apple engineer. This move will undoubtedly bring more convenience to AI developers and speed up the democratization of AI once again! The story of XetHub began in 2021, founded by former Apple engineers Yucheng Low, Rajat Arya, and Ajit Banerjee. With a vision to simplify the process of building machine learning and AI apps, this dynamic team quickly gained industry recognition. Last year, they raised $7.5 million in funding from Madrona Ventures, setting the stage for the company's rapid growth. XetHu.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[384,3943,3944],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hugging-face","tag-xethub","tag-3944"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}