Public AI on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥

We're thrilled to share that Public AI is now a supported Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub! Public AI joins our growing ecosystem, enhancing the breadth and capabilities of serverless inference directly on the Hub’s model pages. Inference Providers are also seamlessly integrated into our client SDKs (for both JS and Python), making it super easy to use a wide variety of models with your preferred providers.

This launch makes it easier than ever to access public and sovereign models from institutions like the Swiss AI Initiative and AI Singapore — right from Hugging Face. You can browse Public AI’s org on the Hub at https://huggingface.co/publicai and try trending supported models at https://huggingface.co/models?inference_provider=publicai&sort=trending .

The Public AI Inference Utility is a nonprofit, open-source project. The team builds products and organizes advocacy to support the work of public AI model builders like the Swiss AI Initiative and AI Singapore, among others.

At the time of writing, usage of the Public AI Inference Utility through Hugging Face Inference Providers is free of charge. Pricing and availability may change.

The Public AI Inference Utility runs on a distributed infrastructure that combines a vLLM-powered backend with a deployment layer designed for resilience across multiple partners. Behind the scenes, inference is handled by servers exposing OpenAI-compatible APIs on vLLM, deployed across clusters donated by national and industry partners. A global load-balancing layer ensures requests are routed efficiently and transparently, regardless of which country’s compute is serving the query.

Free public access is supported by donated GPU time and advertising subsidies, while long-term stability is intended to be anchored by state and institutional contributions. You can learn more about Public AI’s platform and infrastructure at https://platform.publicai.co/ .

You can now use the Public AI Inference Utility as an Inference Provider on Hugging Face. We're excited to see what you'll build with this new provider.