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		Graphcore and Hugging Face are working together to make training of Transformer models on IPUs fast and easy.<br/>
		<a href="https://www.graphcore.ai/hugging-face-hardware" class="underline" data-ga-category="graphcore-org" data-ga-action="clicked contact graphcore" data-ga-label="contact graphcore" >Contact Graphcore</a> to learn more about leveraging IPUs for your training needs.
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		<div class="underline">Learn more about our partnership</div>
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		<div class="underline">Check out Optimum Graphcore library</div>
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		<div class="underline">Discover Graphcore developer tools</div>
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			Accelerate training and inference models with high-performance optimisations across natural language processing, computer vision and more.
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			Graphcore’s IPU is powering advances in AI applications such as fraud detection for finance, drug discovery for life sciences, defect detection for manufacturing, traffic monitoring for smart cities and for all of tomorrow’s new breakthroughs.
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			Learn more at <a href="/hardware/graphcore" class="underline">hf.co/hardware/graphcore</a>
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You can try out Hugging Face Optimum on IPUs instantly using Paperspace Gradient. Join our [Slack Community](https://www.graphcore.ai/join-community) for help and support.

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