Deploy AI Comic Factory on Hugging Face Inference API

AI Impact Summary

Deploying the AI Comic Factory on Hugging Face Inference API enables a Next.js Space architecture to run two back-end services (LLM and Stable Diffusion) via Docker in private spaces, using PRO access to unlock models like meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-chat-hf and stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0. By forcing both LLM_ENGINE and RENDERING_ENGINE to INFERENCE_API, teams can achieve lower resource overhead and potentially faster deployment for end-user applications. However, this is an early-stage integration and features such as the SDXL refiner step and upscaling are not yet ported, which may require interim workarounds for production-quality rendering.