Founded in 2016, Hugging Face is a New York-based company that has become a leading provider of tools and platforms for building machine learning applications, especially in natural language processing. Originally starting as a chatbot app developer, the company pivoted to focus on transforming the field of AI development after open-sourcing the model behind their chatbot. Hugging Face is now best known for its transformers library used to build NLP models and its platform for sharing models and datasets. Key milestones include raising over $300 million in funding, acquiring other AI startups like Gradio, releasing major models like BLOOM, and forming partnerships with tech leaders like AWS, Graphcore, and Salesforce.
The use of Hugging Face important to our 30 Days of AI journey is that it is a place for developers to host their AI applications. Today, we’re taking a look at the T2I ADAPTER SDXL (full credit here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TencentARC/T2I-Adapter-SDXL-Sketch). This is an application that allows users to draw out whatever picture they want created and with help from a prompt, the output is a custom picture based on the theme selected in the dropdown. Themes included cinematic, neonpunk, pixel, 3D model, anime, digital art, photographic, fantasy art, and manga. Overall my two favorite are the pixel art and neonpunk. Share your creations with me on Twitter!
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