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Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool

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A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say they’ve built an “open” version of OpenAI’s deep research tool. Deep research, which OpenAI unveiled during an event Sunday, crawls the web to compile research reports on any subject. While impressive, deep research is currently […]

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MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research

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MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says

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Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model

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Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into a tizzy — researchers at Hugging Face are trying to replicate the model from scratch in what they’re calling a pursuit of “open knowledge.” Hugging Face head of research Leandro von Werra and several company engineers have launched Open-R1, a

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Hugging Face makes it easier for devs to run AI models on third-party clouds

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AI dev platform Hugging Face has partnered with third-party cloud vendors including SambaNova to launch Inference Providers, a feature designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to run AI models using the infrastructure of their choice. Other partners involved with the new effort include Fal, Replicate, and Together AI. Hugging Face says

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Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind

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A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to work well on “constrained devices” like laptops with under around 1GB of RAM. The team says that they’re also ideal for

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Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement

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Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, has settled a lawsuit against Korean AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused Hugging Face of infringing on one of its patents. Per a filing on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Delaware, FriendliAI reached a “confidential agreement” with Hugging Face on January 8 and

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HuggingFace CEO has concerns about Chinese open source AI models

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China’s open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and ‘reasoning.’  However, they have also attracted criticism – including from OpenAI employees – for censoring topics sensitive to the Chinese government, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre. HuggingFace’s CEO Clement Delangue says

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Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training

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Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third-parties from doing so. Per a report by 404 Media, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research, pushing

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Hugging Face says it detected ‘unauthorized access’ to its AI model hosting platform

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Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources. In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets,

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