5 years ago, we launched Gradio as a simple Python library to let researchers at Stanford easily demo computer vision models with a web interface.
Today, Gradio is used by >1 million developers each month to build and share AI web apps. This includes some of the most popular open-source projects of all time, like Automatic1111, Fooocus, Oobaboogaโs Text WebUI, Dall-E Mini, and LLaMA-Factory.
How did we get here? How did Gradio keep growing in the very crowded field of open-source Python libraries? I get this question a lot from folks who are building their own open-source libraries. This post distills some of the lessons that I have learned over the past few years:
1. Invest in good primitives, not high-level abstractions 2. Embed virality directly into your library 3. Focus on a (growing) niche 4. Your only roadmap should be rapid iteration 5. Maximize ways users can consume your library's outputs
1. Invest in good primitives, not high-level abstractions
When we first launched Gradio, we offered only one high-level class (gr.Interface), which created a complete web app from a single Python function. We quickly realized that developers wanted to create other kinds of apps (e.g. multi-step workflows, chatbots, streaming applications), but as we started listing out the apps users wanted to build, we realized what we needed to do:
๐ฅ 'Open Meme Studio': Your Creative Meme Factory ๐ญโจ
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๐ช Why 'Open Meme Studio' is So Effective
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๐ Streamlined Meme Creation Process Tasks that previously required complex tools like Photoshop can now be accomplished with just a few simple prompts. Experience intuitive image manipulation through text commands.
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This time, I have mapped and contributed to https://www.openstreetmap.org more than 100 swimming pools around my wife's hometown. Only took about 20min to find them all (+~3 min verification) in a free Colab GPU๐
This is the most exciting of this weekโs release for me: Gemini Robotics - A SOTA generalist Vision-Language-Action model that brings intelligence to the physical world. It comes with a verifiable real-world knowledge Embodied Reasoning QA benchmark. Cool part is that the model can be specialized with fast adaptation to new tasks and have such adaptations transferred to new robot embodiment like humanoids. Looking forward to the model and data on hf, itโs about time I go full physical:) Technical Report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini-robotics/gemini_robotics_report.pdf