Hugging Face has announced a strategic commercial collaboration with Arcee AI, one of the fastest-rising American AI labs. Under the agreement, Arcee will store all its models, datasets, and agent traces on the Hugging Face Hub, including private models and proprietary datasets. This partnership marks a significant step in the integration of Hugging Face's infrastructure into Arcee's operations. The collaboration will ensure that all of Arcee's artifacts, whether open or confidential, are managed through the Hugging Face Hub. This includes the use of Buckets, Hugging Face's private storage product, which Arcee helped shape as a launch partner from the beginning. Buckets provides simple per-TB storage with egress and CDN included, optimized for AI artifacts like weights and datasets. This setup allows Arcee to remain compute agnostic, enabling them to train on any provider and move clusters as needed without egress fees or lock-in. The partnership also emphasizes the importance of open-source AI and the role of Hugging Face as a distribution platform for AI builders worldwide. Arcee's models and datasets will be accessible to the global AI community, with the Hugging Face Hub serving as the single source of truth for all Arcee artifacts. Source: huggingface

Arcee has already been an active contributor to the Hugging Face Hub, with 204 models and 63 datasets published as a verified organization. The organization has over 100,000 model downloads per month and millions of total downloads. Notable models include the Trinity family, AFM-4.5B foundation models, and Llama-3.1-SuperNova-Lite. Open datasets such as The-Tome and Llama-405B-Logits distillation dataset are also available for other labs to use. Arcee's commitment to open-source AI is evident in its approach to building and sharing models, which has fostered a growing ecosystem of AI developers and enterprises. The partnership with Hugging Face aims to deepen these integrations and provide more open weights and datasets for the global AI community. Source: huggingface

The collaboration between Arcee and Hugging Face highlights the growing importance of open-source AI in the industry. Arcee's models are already being used in large enterprises, proving that high-quality results can be achieved without massive parameter counts. The partnership underscores the value of Hugging Face as a trusted infrastructure for AI artifacts and the importance of open distribution platforms for the AI community. Source: huggingface