Building for an Open Future - our new partnership with Google Cloud

Source: HuggingFace Date: 2025-11-13 URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/google-cloud

Summary

Partnership announcement deepening HuggingFace’s integration with Google Cloud: open models available through Vertex AI Model Garden and GKE, a new CDN gateway caching HF models on GCP infrastructure, native TPU support (7th gen), and VirusTotal/Mandiant security scanning for hosted models and datasets. GCP customer usage of HF models has grown 10x over 3 years to tens of petabytes monthly.

Implications

Thread: HF as open-source ML hub. The CDN caching and TPU native support are the substantive moves — they reduce the infrastructure friction between HF as a model registry and GCP as a compute platform. This continues HF’s pattern of becoming the distribution layer for open models across every major cloud (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Studio, now deeper GCP). The VirusTotal security integration is notable: model supply chain security is becoming a first-class concern. Watch whether this drives HF’s inference endpoint pricing down relative to direct GCP options.