Hugging Face Inc., an Artificial Intelligence startup, has introduced the latest version of its open-source tool, Gradio 5. The tool enables developers to build production-ready machine learning web applications in just minutes.
Gradio has become a significant player in the AI development ecosystem, with over 470,000 applications built on the platform and over 2 million monthly users. With a new AI-powered app development tool, more web development options, and a stronger security focus, the latest version of Gradio is all about making AI development more accessible.
Gradio 5 addresses all the challenges developers face while maintaining its simple and intuitive developer-facing API. According to the write-up published on Hugging Face, Gradio 5 is designed to be a production-ready web framework for all kinds of machine learning applications. The company has also made significant improvements around web security, including getting a 3rd-party audit of Gradio.
Hugging Face has made an experimental “AI Playground” available with Gradio 5, simplifying the process of developing and previewing AI apps using just natural language commands.
Gradio is similar to other no-code or low-code app building environments in that you can simply enter a text prompt describing the kind of application you want to build, and it will understand that request and transform it into Gradio code, as Hugging Face’s Abubakar Abid, who founded the platform, explains in an interview with VentureBeat.
Hugging Face’s AI model hub is directly connected with Gradio’s platform, which is one of the primary benefits of developing an app on it. Thus, with just a few lines of code—and now, just a few spoken commands—developers can use Gradio to power a new web application after a model has been published into its repository.
According to the company, bridging the gap between machine learning developers and web developers is another key focus of the Gradio 5 release. While most machine learning developers are proficient with Python, they lack actual web development, which relies more on a separate set of tools and programming languages.
“Gradio lets developers build performant, scalable apps that follow best practices in security and accessibility, all in just a few lines of Python,” Abid said during the interview.
The latest version of Gradio, according to Abid, is still under development, and the company plans to add more new features and functionalities in the upcoming weeks and months. These will include support for new image and video modalities, sidebars, navbars, mobile support, and multi-page Gradio apps.
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