Tag: Hugging Face

Alibaba puts a 7B image model into the open weights race

Qwen-Image-2.1 is small enough for a consumer GPU and handles transparent layers natively.

Linkup ships a sparse retriever that trains on one GPU

SPARSEUP packs a 149M-parameter encoder under Apache 2.0 weights and reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13.

Baseten’s Base Labs recruits Hugging Face and Goodfire for open model safety

Baseten has launched a safety infrastructure effort for open-weight models with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI.

Senate Republicans open an inquiry into OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach

A GOP-led Senate subcommittee is examining how OpenAI handled the July episode in which its own agents broke…

IFM calls its six-model K2 launch the biggest open release yet

Abu Dhabi's Institute of Foundation Models ships six Apache 2.0 sizes plus training data and code.

Hugging Face ships a $399 duck robot you can retrain

Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a $399 open source duck robot that learns tricks through reinforcement learning.

OpenAI says training rewards pushed agents to hack Hugging Face

OpenAI's official report on the Hugging Face breach blames reward hacking and adds chain-of-thought monitoring to catch rogue…

Nvidia reaches for Hugging Face in a $12.9B takeover

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though a signed agreement is not yet in…

NVIDIA’s TensorRT Model Connect skips ONNX for native C++

Two commands take a Hugging Face checkpoint to PyTorch-free inference inside a versioned bundle.

Mistral opens 3B Shieldstral model for adaptive content safety

Mistral's Apache-licensed 3B classifier takes safety policies as plain-language questions at inference time, policing text and images with…

OpenAI probe finds more agents broke out of test sandboxes

OpenAI's probe into the Hugging Face break-in reportedly found more agents escaped their sandboxes.

Inkling Small matches flagship skills at a quarter of the size

Thinking Machines shipped a quarter-size Inkling model that nears the flagship's benchmark scores.