Transformers v5: Simple model definitions powering the AI ecosystem
Transformers’ version v4.0.0rc-1, the initial release candidate for version 4, was released on November 19th, 2020. Five years later, we now release v5.0.0rc-0.
Today, as we launch v5, Transformers is installed more than 3 million times each day via pip – up from 20,000/day in v4 🤯. Altogether, it has now surpassed 1.2 billion installs!
The ecosystem has expanded from 40 model architectures in v4 to over 400 today, and the community has contributed more than 750,000 model checkpoints on the Hub compatible with Transformers, up from roughly 1,000 at the time of v4.