Weaviate Support for Hugging Face Inference API

AI Impact Summary

Weaviate now offers a module for directly utilizing the Hugging Face Inference API, simplifying the process of running ML models for vector search and similarity tasks. This eliminates the need for teams to manage and scale their own inference infrastructure, reducing operational overhead and costs. The module automatically handles data vectorization and querying through Hugging Face, allowing users to leverage pre-trained sentence similarity models without managing the underlying compute resources.