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Products that do what depot.ai – easily embed ML / AI models in your Dockerfile does

Hey HN! We're excited to launch https://depot.ai today - depot.ai is an open-source Docker registry that makes it easy to embed public models from Hugging Face in your Docker images using a `COPY`: # Copy all files from the model repo to the current WORKDIR COPY --link --from=depot.ai/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 / . # COPY just one file from the model repo to the current WORKDIR COPY --link --from=depot.ai/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 /v1-5-pruned.ckpt . To optimize build speed, cache hits, and registry storage, we're building each image…

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