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Hugging Face settles lawsuit with FriendliAI over patent infringement
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, has reached a confidential agreement with Korean AI startup FriendliAI to settle a lawsuit accusing Hugging Face of infringing on one of its patents. The agreement was filed on January 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Delaware, with FriendliAI agreeing to dismiss its suit “with prejudice,” meaning it cannot be brought back to court.
FriendliAI had filed the suit nearly two years ago, alleging that Hugging Face had violated its patent on “batching with iteration-level scheduling.” The VC-backed FriendliAI, founded in 2021 and based in both Brooklyn and Redwood City, California, develops infrastructure solutions for AI.
According to FriendliAI, its patented technology improves the process of batching data fed into an AI system, allowing the system to process multiple requests simultaneously. The patent also covers AI systems that can send finished requests to a user and add new requests to a batch before processing the full batch.
Hugging Face, backed by $235 million from investors such as Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and Salesforce, is known for being one of the largest repositories of AI tools and models globally. The platform hosts models and tools, develops its own, and provides consulting services to help enterprises optimize and deploy AI solutions.
