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On January 30th, according to the British Financial Times, at the end of last year, when the chip giant, Yvette, threw a $500 million investment offer to Hugging Face, the AI start-up company made an unexpected decision - to refuse. According to well-informed sources, the transaction could have pushed the Hugging Face valuation to $7 billion, more than its total financing over the past decade. However, the company chose to say “no”. Hugging Face on the other hand, doesn't want a single lead..

According to the news of November 19, TechCrunch today, the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, Clem Delange, raised the point at the Axios BFFD event that there is no so-called "AI" foam, but rather a "large-language model bubble" and that this bubble may break down before long. Foams say hundreds of billions of dollars today, but even if the bubble breaks, the future of AI is not threatened. According to Clem Delangue, currently..

TechCrunch (May 29) published a blog post reporting that AI development platform Hugging Face has made a further foray into robotics with the launch of its latest open-source humanoid robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a full-sized robot with 66 degrees of freedom, capable of walking, waving its arms, and other complex movements. HopeJR is a full-sized robot with 66 degrees of freedom, capable of walking, waving its arms, and other complex movements, while Reachy Mini is a smaller, desktop robot...

May 8 news, technology media analyticsindiamag yesterday (May 7) released a blog post, reported that Hugging Face launched a free cloud-based AI intelligent body tool Open Computer Agent, support for users through text commands to remotely manipulate Linux-based virtual computers, the use of Firefox and other applications. 1AI cited the blog post as introducing the Open Computer Agent tool, which integrates smolagents, Qwen2...

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Artificial intelligence development platform Hugging Face has announced the acquisition of France-based humanoid robotics startup Pollen Robotics in an undisclosed deal. Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen's humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and allow developers to download and suggest improvements to its code, according to Wired magazine. Pollen Robotics was founded by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouin...

March 20, 2010 - Hugging Face has launched its latest iOS app, HuggingSnap, which allows users to ask AI to generate visual descriptions directly on the device side without relying on cloud servers. The app is based on the lightweight multimodal model smolVLM2 (with parameter sizes ranging from 256 million to 2.2 billion), which performs all calculations locally and avoids the need to upload data to the cloud to ensure privacy. Optimized for mobile devices, smolVLM2 efficiently handles graphical tasks (e.g., image/video analysis) but is slightly less accurate than the cloud...

Feb. 24 - Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, a community for AI big models, announced in a post early this morning that DeepSeek-R1 has received more than 10,000 likes on Hugging Face, making it the most popular big model out of nearly 1.5 million models on the platform. "It's astounding!" Late last month, Hugging Face also announced the Open-R1 project, which plans to fill the DeepSeek R1 un...

It's been about a week since DeepSeek released R1, an open-source inference model that competes with OpenAI o1, generating global attention. Now, Hugging Face, a community of big AI models, has announced the Open-R1 project, which plans to fill in some of the components of DeepSeek's R1 that are not open-source, adding "more fuel to the fire" of this global craze. According to Hugging Face, while the weights used by DeepSeek are known, the datasets and code used to train the models are...

January 24, 2011 - Technology media NeoWin published a blog post yesterday (January 23) reporting that Microsoft plans to deploy Copilot Chat for Outlook and Copilot Chat for Teams online starting in February 2025, which will bring a new Copilot Chat experience and provide easier access. Citing Microsoft's updated Microsoft 365 roadmap, 1AI attached the information as follows:Late January 2025...

The Hugging Face platform published a blog post yesterday (November 26) announcing the launch of the SmolVLM AI visual language model (VLM), with just 2 billion parameters for device-side reasoning, which stands out from its peers by virtue of its extremely low memory footprint. Officials say the SmolVLM AI model benefits from being small, fast, memory efficient, and completely open source, with all model checkpoints, VLM datasets, training recipes, and tools released under the Apache 2.0 license. SmolVLM AI ...

Recently, Runway suddenly and secretly deleted its code base from the Hugging Face platform, including the highly anticipated Stable Diffusion v1.5 project, which caused quite a stir in the technology community. Runway's behavior not only left no trace, but also did not notify Hugging Face or any community members. Even more shocking is that even the page on GitHub has become empty. This sudden change has undoubtedly caused trouble for developers and researchers who rely on these resources. ht…

Recently, Hugging Face, a well-known AI development platform, announced the acquisition of XetHub, a data storage and collaboration startup founded by former Apple engineers. This move will undoubtedly bring more convenience to AI developers and accelerate the democratization of artificial intelligence! The story of XetHub began in 2021 and was co-founded by former Apple engineers Yucheng Low, Rajat Arya, and Ajit Banerjee. This dynamic team, with the vision of simplifying the process of building machine learning and AI applications, quickly gained industry recognition…

Recently, the open source platform Hugging Face and NVIDIA announced an exciting new service, Inference-as-a-Service, which will be driven by NVIDIA's NIM technology. The launch of the new service allows developers to prototype more quickly, use open source AI models provided on the Hugging Face Hub, and deploy them efficiently. The news was announced at the ongoing SIGGRAPH2024 conference. This…

Nowadays, small language models are becoming more popular, and many manufacturers have begun to launch "small models" suitable for lightweight devices such as mobile phones. This week, Hugging Face announced the "SmolLM" small language model family, which includes 135 million, 360 million and 1.7 billion parameter models. According to reports, these models are said to be trained with carefully planned high-quality training data sets and are said to be quite powerful in Python programming performance. The team pointed out that they focused on optimizing the amount of RAM required by the model, "even on an iPhone with 6GB RAM...

Recently, Hugging Face launched a new AI tool - SmolLM. This is a series of high-performance small language models with parameters ranging from 135M to 1.7B, designed specifically for various devices and applications. Imagine that these small models can run efficiently on mobile phones and laptops, which is really cool! The characteristics of SmolLM models are small and powerful. They can still perform well with less computing resources and help users protect privacy. Hugging Face uses a tool called SmolLM-Corp when training these models...

According to The decoder report on Thursday, Clément Delangue, CEO of the open source AI community Hugging Face, said in an interview mid-month that more and more AI startup founders want to sell their companies, which may indicate that the AI market is about to see consolidation. On June 13, Hugging Face announced that it would acquire a small company called Argilla for $10 million (currently about RMB 72.819 million)…

Hugging Face, the world's largest open source AI community, reported a security vulnerability on May 31. Its team detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform, which may have led to the leakage of some user keys. Hugging Face is one of the world's largest artificial intelligence and data science project collaboration platforms, with more than one million models, data sets, and artificial intelligence-driven applications. A Hugging Face spokesperson said in a statement: "In the past few months, we have seen network...

Hugging Face, the world's largest open source AI community, recently announced that it will provide $10 million in free shared GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies. Specifically, the purpose of Hugging Face's move is to help small developers, researchers, and startups fight against large AI companies and prevent AI progress from falling into "centralization." Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue was interviewed by The Verge...

AI startup Hugging Face announced that it has open-sourced its robotics toolkit LeRobot, a move that marks a major boon for the field of AI robotics research and development. Previously, Hugging Face has successfully attracted former Tesla scientist Remi Cadene to join and lead this new open source project. LeRobot's core features Open source robotics toolkit: LeRobot is developed based on the largest crowdsourced robotics dataset to date, and is designed to promote the research and development of AI robotics technology. Comprehensive platform: LeRobot is not only...

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Hugging Face was originally a New York-based startup focused on chatbot services. However, during the startup process, they open-sourced a library called Transformers and released it on GitHub. Although the chatbot business did not succeed, the library quickly became popular in the machine learning community. Currently, Hugging Face has shared more than 100,000 pre-trained models and 10,000 datasets, becoming an important open source resource in the machine learning community. The Hugging Face website provides a wealth of…

Hugging Face recently released an iOS client app called "Hugging Chat" to bring convenience to users. Users can now access and use various open source models hosted on the Hugging Face platform on their mobile phones. Download address: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/huggingchat/id6476778843 Web address: https://huggingface.co/chat Currently, the app provides six...

Stability AI recently released the Stable Video 3D model, which can create multi-view 3D videos from a single image. ▲ Image source Stability AI Stable Video 3D includes two variants, SV3D_u can generate track videos based on a single image input without camera adjustment; and SV3D_p extends the functionality of SVD3_u, which can accommodate track views, allowing 3D videos to be created along a specified camera path. Compared with the previous Stable…

According to foreign media VentureBeat, AI startup Hugging Face has set up an open source robot project, led by former Tesla scientist Remi Cadene. Remi Cadene's X platform dynamics show that this former Tesla humanoid robot Optimus team member joined Hugging Face and started an open source robot project, recruiting engineers willing to build "real robots" in Paris. Hugging Face's main business is currently in the form of software, including the development of...