JavaScript Library Lets Devs Add AI Capabilities to Web - The New Stack

AI company Hugging Face has released a new open source JavaScript library that allows frontend and web developers to add machine learning capabilities to webpages and apps. Traditionally, Python notebooks are the toolkit for data scientists, but for most web and frontend developers, it's JavaScript. Until now, adding those functions meant a Python app on the backend that did the work, said Jeff Boudier, head of product and growth at the startup. Using JavaScript, the browser can request machine learning models to serve predictions and obtain answers for a visitor. "We provide some low code/no code tools, but if you want to dig in a little bit, you still have to whip out some Python notebooks, etc. And that's the traditional toolkit of data scientists," Boudier told The New Stack.