Guide to Building and Deploying Your Custom API with OpenAI Models to Hugging Face Spaces

Subhrajit Mohanty
9 min readMay 22, 2023

Developing Your Space in Hugging Face: A Step-By-Step Guide

Step 1: Setting Up Your Account

To get started, you’ll first need to create an account on Hugging Face. It’s free, and you can sign up using either your GitHub or Google account. Click here

Step 2: Create Your Space

Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Spaces page. You’ll find it in the dropdown under your username in the top-right corner. Click on “New Space” to start.

Fill out the necessary details, such as the title of your space, a brief description, and the main programming language used (Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).

Step 3: Customizing Your Space

Your space is essentially a repository where you can share all your machine-learning projects. You can customize it according to your needs. You can upload notebooks, datasets, models, or even scripts.

Upload any files or notebooks directly from your computer, or use the provided editor to create new files within your space.

Step 4: Uploading a Model

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Subhrajit Mohanty

Head of Engineering at Katonic, expert in data engineering, DevOps, MLOps, AI, and generative AI, solving complex AI challenges with innovative solutions.