5 years ago, we launched Gradio as a simple Python library to let researchers at Stanford easily demo computer vision models with a web interface.
Today, Gradio is used by >1 million developers each month to build and share AI web apps. This includes some of the most popular open-source projects of all time, like Automatic1111, Fooocus, Oobabooga’s Text WebUI, Dall-E Mini, and LLaMA-Factory.
How did we get here? How did Gradio keep growing in the very crowded field of open-source Python libraries? I get this question a lot from folks who are building their own open-source libraries. This post distills some of the lessons that I have learned over the past few years:
1. Invest in good primitives, not high-level abstractions 2. Embed virality directly into your library 3. Focus on a (growing) niche 4. Your only roadmap should be rapid iteration 5. Maximize ways users can consume your library's outputs
1. Invest in good primitives, not high-level abstractions
When we first launched Gradio, we offered only one high-level class (gr.Interface), which created a complete web app from a single Python function. We quickly realized that developers wanted to create other kinds of apps (e.g. multi-step workflows, chatbots, streaming applications), but as we started listing out the apps users wanted to build, we realized what we needed to do:
For Inference Providers who have built support for our Billing API (currently: Fal, Novita, HF-Inference – with more coming soon), we've started enabling Pay as you go (=PAYG)
What this means is that you can use those Inference Providers beyond the free included credits, and they're charged to your HF account.
You can see it on this view: any provider that does not have a "Billing disabled" badge, is PAYG-compatible.
I was puzzled by the scope of 🐋DeepSeek🐋 projects, i.e. why they built (then open sourced) so many pieces which are all over their technology stack. Good engineers are minimalists. They build only when they have to.
Then I realized that FP8 should be the main driving force here. So your raw inter-GPU bandwidth is cut in half (H800). But if you compress your data presentation from 16 bits to 8 bits, then the effective throughput of your workload stays unchanged!
The idea is simple but lots of work had to be done. Their v3 technical report will give you a wholistic view (better than reading the code). To summarize, data structure is the foundation to any software. Since FP8 was new and untried, the ecosystem wasn't there. So DeepSeek became the trailblazer. Before cooking your meals, you need to till the land, grow crops, and grind the flour 😅
Super happy to welcome Nvidia as our latest enterprise hub customer. They have almost 2,000 team members using Hugging Face, and close to 20,000 followers of their org. Can't wait to see what they'll open-source for all of us in the coming months!
While everyone is buzzing about DeepSeek AI R1's groundbreaking open-source release, ByteDance has quietly launched something remarkable - Trae, an adaptive AI IDE that's redefining the development experience and unlike competitors like Cursor, it' completely FREE!
Trae is a sophisticated development environment built on Microsoft's VSCode foundation(with a nice skin on top), offering unlimited free access to both OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet models.
Technical Highlights: - Real-time AI pair programming with comprehensive codebase understanding - Natural language commands for code generation and project-level development - Intelligent task decomposition for automated planning and execution - Seamless VS Code and Cursor configuration compatibility - Multi-language support with specialized optimization for English and Chinese interfaces
Currently available for macOS (Windows version in development), Trae is distributed through ByteDance's Singapore subsidiary, Spring (SG) Pte. What sets it apart is its ability to handle mixed-language workflows and enhanced localization features that address common pain points in existing IDEs.
The AI assistant can generate code snippets, optimize logic, and even create entire projects from scratch through natural language prompts. It also features an innovative AI Chat system accessible via keyboard shortcuts for real-time coding assistance.
For developers looking to enhance their productivity without breaking the bank, Trae offers enterprise-grade AI capabilities completely free during its initial release. This move by ByteDance signals a significant shift in the AI IDE landscape, challenging established players with a robust, accessible alternative.
How do your annotations for FineWeb2 compare to your teammates'?
I started contributing some annotations to the FineWeb2 collaborative annotation sprint and I wanted to know if my labelling trends were similar to those of my teammates.
I did some analysis and I wasn't surprised to see that I'm being a bit harsher on my evaluations than my mates 😂
Do you want to see how your annotations compare to others? 👉 Go to this Gradio space: nataliaElv/fineweb2_compare_my_annotations ✍️ Enter the dataset that you've contributed to and your Hugging Face username.
After some heated discussion 🔥, we clarify our intent re. storage limits on the Hub
TL;DR: - public storage is free, and (unless blatant abuse) unlimited. We do ask that you consider upgrading to PRO and/or Enterprise Hub if possible - private storage is paid above a significant free tier (1TB if you have a paid account, 100GB otherwise)
Six predictions for AI in 2025 (and a review of how my 2024 predictions turned out):
- There will be the first major public protest related to AI - A big company will see its market cap divided by two or more because of AI - At least 100,000 personal AI robots will be pre-ordered - China will start to lead the AI race (as a consequence of leading the open-source AI race). - There will be big breakthroughs in AI for biology and chemistry. - We will begin to see the economic and employment growth potential of AI, with 15M AI builders on Hugging Face.
How my predictions for 2024 turned out:
- A hyped AI company will go bankrupt or get acquired for a ridiculously low price ✅ (Inflexion, AdeptAI,...)
- Open-source LLMs will reach the level of the best closed-source LLMs ✅ with QwQ and dozens of others
- Big breakthroughs in AI for video, time-series, biology and chemistry ✅ for video 🔴for time-series, biology and chemistry
- We will talk much more about the cost (monetary and environmental) of AI ✅Monetary 🔴Environmental (😢)
- A popular media will be mostly AI-generated ✅ with NotebookLM by Google
- 10 millions AI builders on Hugging Face leading to no increase of unemployment 🔜currently 7M of AI builders on Hugging Face
What a great day for Open Science! @AIatMeta released models, datasets, and code for many of its research artefacts! 🔥
1. Meta Segment Anything Model 2.1: An updated checkpoint with improved results on visually similar objects, small objects and occlusion handling. A new developer suite will be added to make it easier for developers to build with SAM 2.
I'm excited to share that Gradio 5 will launch in October with improvements across security, performance, SEO, design (see the screenshot for Gradio 4 vs. Gradio 5), and user experience, making Gradio a mature framework for web-based ML applications.
Gradio 5 is currently in beta, so if you'd like to try it out early, please refer to the instructions below:
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Gradio 5 depends on Python 3.10 or higher, so if you are running Gradio locally, please ensure that you have Python 3.10 or higher, or download it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/
* Locally: If you are running gradio locally, simply install the release candidate with pip install gradio --pre * Spaces: If you would like to update an existing gradio Space to use Gradio 5, you can simply update the sdk_version to be 5.0.0b3 in the README.md file on Spaces.
In most cases, that’s all you have to do to run Gradio 5.0. If you start your Gradio application, you should see your Gradio app running, with a fresh new UI.
