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Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement


Hugging Face has settled a lawsuit against Korean AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused the former of infringing on one of its patents.

FriendliAI claimed that the “server” component of Hugging Face’s Text Generation Inference tool used its patented method to batch incoming requests. Hugging Face, which has raised a total of $235 million from backers including Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and Salesforce, is one of the largest repositories of AI tools and models in the world. In addition to hosting models and tools, the company develops its own, and it offers consulting services to help enterprises fine-tune, customize, and deploy AI.

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