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Gradio adds gr.Workflow for building AI pipelines as typed node graphs with automatic REST API and one-command deploy
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Gradio introduced gr.Workflow, a built-in feature that lets developers describe AI pipelines as graphs of typed nodes that Gradio serves as a drag-and-drop canvas with visible intermediate results, automatic REST endpoints for each output, and one-command deployment to Hugging Face Spaces.
This turns multi-step AI application construction from sequential Python scripting into a visual graph editor where every intermediate result is inspectable and each output is automatically exposed as a REST endpoint. It removes the need to manually wire API calls between models and handle deployment separately, though deployment currently targets Hugging Face Spaces specifically.
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gr.Workflow describes AI pipelines as graphs with three node types: references (inputs), operators (processing steps), and subjects (outputs), connected through typed ports.
Every workflow automatically becomes both a drag-and-drop UI and a REST API, with each output getting its own named endpoint callable from the Gradio client.
Operator nodes can call Hugging Face Inference Providers, other Gradio Spaces, custom Python functions, or GPU models via ZeroGPU using the @spaces.GPU decorator.
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