Generative AI Companies Face Off in Patent Infringement Suit
Summary
On July 28, generative AI company FriendliAI filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Hugging Face Inc. in a Delaware federal court. Hugging Face is alleged to have developed an inference server called Text Generation Inference for Large Language Models which relies on a type of “continuous” or “dynamic” batching for which FriendliAI received a patent (entitled “Dynamic Batching for Inference System for Transformer-Based Generation Tasks”) in 2022.
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