fdaudens (Florent Daudens)

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🤯 Gemma 3's image analysis blew me away!

Tested 2 ways to extract airplane registration numbers from photos with 12B model:

1️⃣ Gradio app w/API link (underrated feature IMO) + ZeroGPU infra on Hugging Face in Google Colab. Fast & free.

2️⃣ LMStudio + local processing (100% private). Running this powerhouse on a MacBook w/16GB RAM is wild! 🚀

Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YmmaP0IDEu98CLDppAAK9kbQZ7lFnLZ1?usp=sharing

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We just crossed 1,500,000 public models on Hugging Face (and 500k spaces, 330k datasets, 50k papers). One new repository is created every 15 seconds. Congratulations all!

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posted an update 2 days ago

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Ever wanted 45 min with one of AI’s most fascinating minds? Was with @thomwolf at HumanX Vegas. Sharing my notes of his Q&A with the press—completely changed how I think about AI’s future:

1️⃣ The next wave of successful AI companies won’t be defined by who has the best model but by who builds the most useful real-world solutions. "We all have engines in our cars, but that’s rarely the only reason we buy one. We expect it to work well, and that’s enough. LLMs will be the same."

2️⃣ Big players are pivoting: "Closed-source companies—OpenAI being the first—have largely shifted from LLM announcements to product announcements."

3️⃣ Open source is changing everything: "DeepSeek was open source AI’s ChatGPT moment. Basically, everyone outside the bubble realized you can get a model for free—and it’s just as good as the paid ones."

4️⃣ Product innovation is being democratized: Take Manus, for example—they built a product on top of Anthropic’s models that’s "actually better than Anthropic’s own product for now, in terms of agents." This proves that anyone can build great products with existing models.

We’re entering a "multi-LLM world," where models are becoming commoditized, and all the tools to build are readily available—just look at the flurry of daily new releases on Hugging Face.

Thom's comparison to the internet era is spot-on: "In the beginning you made a lot of money by making websites... but nowadays the huge internet companies are not the companies that built websites. Like Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, they just use the internet as a medium to make something for real life use cases."

Love to hear your thoughts on this shift!

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posted an update 3 days ago

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🔥The Open R1 team just dropped OlympicCoder and it's wild:

- 7B model outperforms Claude 3.7 Sonnet on IOI benchmark (yes, 7B!!)
- 32B crushes all open-weight models tested, even those 100x larger 🤯

Open-sourcing the future of code reasoning! 🚀

Check it out https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3

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Yes, exploring a few ideas!

posted an update 5 days ago

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Honored to be named among their 12 pioneers and power players in the news industry in the 2025 Tech Trends Report from Future Today Strategy Group.

Incredible group to be part of - each person is doing groundbreaking work at the intersection of AI and journalism. Worth following them all: they're consistently sharing practical insights on building the future of news.

Take the time to read this report, it's packed with insights as always. The news & information section's #1 insight hits hard: "The most substantive economic impact of AI to date has been licensing payouts for a handful of big publishers. The competition will start shifting in the year ahead to separate AI 'haves' that have positioned themselves to grow from the 'have-nots.'"

This AI-driven divide is something I've been really concerned about. Now is the time to build more than ever!

👉 Full report here: https://ftsg.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/FTSG_2025_TR_FINAL_LINKED.pdf

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posted an update 8 days ago

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AI will bring us "a country of yes-men on servers" instead of one of "Einsteins sitting in a data center" if we continue on current trends.

Must-read by @thomwolf deflating overblown AI promises and explaining what real scientific breakthroughs require.

https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html

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posted an update 14 days ago

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What if AI becomes as ubiquitous as the internet, but runs locally and transparently on our devices?

Fascinating TED talk by @thomwolf on open source AI and its future impact.

Imagine this for AI: instead of black box models running in distant data centers, we get transparent AI that runs locally on our phones and laptops, often without needing internet access. If the original team moves on? No problem - resilience is one of the beauties of open source. Anyone (companies, collectives, or individuals) can adapt and fix these models.

This is a compelling vision of AI's future that solves many of today's concerns around AI transparency and centralized control.

Watch the full talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_wolf_what_if_ai_just_works

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posted an update 16 days ago

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Is this the best tool to extract clean info from PDFs, handwriting and complex documents yet?

Open source olmOCR just dropped and the results are impressive.

Tested the free demo with various documents, including a handwritten Claes Oldenburg letter. The speed is impressive: 3000 tokens/second on your own GPU - that's 1/32 the cost of GPT-4o ($190/million pages). Game-changer for content extraction and digital archives.

To achieve this, Ai2 trained a 7B vision language model on 260K pages from 100K PDFs using "document anchoring" - combining PDF metadata with page images.

Best part: it actually understands document structure (columns, tables, equations) instead of just jumbling everything together like most OCR tools. Their human eval results back this up.

👉 Try the demo: https://olmocr.allenai.org

Going right into the AI toolkit: JournalistsonHF/ai-toolkit

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posted an update 18 days ago

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🚀 Just launched: A toolkit of 20 powerful AI tools that journalists can use right now - transcribe, analyze, create. 100% free & open-source.

Been testing all these tools myself and created a searchable collection of the most practical ones - from audio transcription to image generation to document analysis. No coding needed, no expensive subscriptions.

Some highlights I've tested personally:
- Private, on-device transcription with speaker ID in 100+ languages using Whisper
- Website scraping that just works - paste a URL, get structured data
- Local image editing with tools like Finegrain (impressive results)
- Document chat using Qwen 2.5 72B (handles technical papers well)

Sharing this early because the best tools come from the community. Drop your favorite tools in the comments or join the discussion on what to add next!

👉 JournalistsonHF/ai-toolkit

posted an update 21 days ago

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Trying something new to keep you ahead of the curve: The 5 AI stories of the week - a weekly curation of the most important AI news you need to know. Do you like it?

For more AI stories and deeper analysis, check out my newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/fdaudens/p/ai-competition-heats-up-grok-3-iphone

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posted an update 24 days ago

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🎯 Perplexity drops their FIRST open-weight model on Hugging Face: A decensored DeepSeek-R1 with full reasoning capabilities. Tested on 1000+ examples for unbiased responses.

Check it out: perplexity-ai/r1-1776
Blog post: https://perplexity.ai/hub/blog/open-sourcing-r1-1776

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reacted to clem's post with 🔥 24 days ago

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We crossed 1B+ tokens routed to inference providers partners on HF, that we released just a few days ago.

Just getting started of course but early users seem to like it & always happy to be able to partner with cool startups in the ecosystem.

Have you been using any integration and how can we make it better?

https://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers

posted an update 26 days ago

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Will we soon all have our own personalized AI news agents? And what does it mean for journalism?

Just built a simple prototype based on the Hugging Face course. It lets you get customized news updates on any topic.

Not perfect yet, but you can see where things could go: we'll all be able to build personalized AI agents that curate & analyze news for each of us. And users who could decide to build custom news products for their needs, such as truly personalized newsletters or podcasts.

The implications for both readers & news organizations are significant. To name a few:
- Will news articles remain the best format for informing people?
- What monetization model will work for news organizations?
- How do you create an effective conversion funnel?

👉 Try it here: fdaudens/my-news-agent (Code is open-source)
👉 Check out the course: https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction

reacted to davanstrien's post with 👍 27 days ago

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Made some significant updates to my 🤗 semantic datasets search app. If you love falling into a wiki black hole, you might like this...

https://huggingface.co/spaces/librarian-bots/huggingface-datasets-semantic-search

reacted to merve's post with 👍 27 days ago

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Your weekly recap of open AI is here, and it's packed with models! merve/feb-14-releases-67af876b404cc27c6d837767

👀 Multimodal
> OpenGVLab released InternVideo 2.5 Chat models, new video LMs with long context
> AIDC released Ovis2 model family along with Ovis dataset, new vision LMs in different sizes (1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, 16B, 34B), with video and OCR support
> ColQwenStella-2b is a multilingual visual retrieval model that is sota in it's size
> Hoags-2B-Exp is a new multilingual vision LM with contextual reasoning, long context video understanding

💬 LLMs
A lot of math models!
> Open-R1 team released OpenR1-Math-220k large scale math reasoning dataset, along with Qwen2.5-220K-Math fine-tuned on the dataset, OpenR1-Qwen-7B
> Nomic AI released new Nomic Embed multilingual retrieval model, a MoE with 500 params with 305M active params, outperforming other models
> DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview is a new DeepSeek-R1-Distill fine-tune using distributed RL on math
> LIMO is a new fine-tune of Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct on Math

🗣️ Audio
> Zonos-v0.1 is a new family of speech recognition models, which contains the model itself and embeddings

🖼️ Vision and Image Generation
> We have ported DepthPro of Apple to transformers for your convenience!
> illustrious-xl-v1.0 is a new illustration generation model

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8 New Types of RAG

RAG techniques continuously evolve to enhance LLM response accuracy by retrieving relevant external data during generation. To keep up with current AI trends, new RAG types incorporate deep step-by-step reasoning, tree search, citations, multimodality and other effective techniques.

Here's a list of 8 latest RAG advancements:

1. DeepRAG -> DeepRAG: Thinking to Retrieval Step by Step for Large Language Models (2502.01142)
Models retrieval-augmented reasoning as a Markov Decision Process, enabling strategic retrieval. It dynamically decides when to retrieve external knowledge and when rely on parametric reasoning.

2. RealRAG -> RealRAG: Retrieval-augmented Realistic Image Generation via Self-reflective Contrastive Learning (2502.00848)
Enhances novel object generation by retrieving real-world images and using self-reflective contrastive learning to fill knowledge gap, improve realism and reduce distortions.

3. Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation (CoRAG) -> Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation (2501.14342)
Retrieves information step-by-step and adjusts it, also deciding how much compute power to use at test time. If needed it reformulates queries.

4. VideoRAG -> VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Video Corpus (2501.05874)
Enables unlimited-length video processing, using dual-channel architecture that integrates graph-based textual grounding and multi-modal context encoding.

5. CFT-RAG -> CFT-RAG: An Entity Tree Based Retrieval Augmented Generation Algorithm With Cuckoo Filter (2501.15098)
A tree-RAG acceleration method uses an improved Cuckoo Filter to optimize entity localization, enabling faster retrieval.

6. Contextualized Graph RAG (CG-RAG) -> CG-RAG: Research Question Answering by Citation Graph Retrieval-Augmented LLMs (2501.15067)
Uses Lexical-Semantic Graph Retrieval (LeSeGR) to integrate sparse and dense signals within graph structure and capture citation relationships

7. GFM-RAG -> GFM-RAG: Graph Foundation Model for Retrieval Augmented Generation (2502.01113)
A graph foundation model that uses a graph neural network to refine query-knowledge connections

8. URAG -> URAG: Implementing a Unified Hybrid RAG for Precise Answers in University Admission Chatbots -- A Case Study at HCMUT (2501.16276)
A hybrid system combining rule-based and RAG methods to improve lightweight LLMs for educational chatbots

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posted an update 28 days ago

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🔊 Meet Kokoro Web - Free, ML speech synthesis on your computer, that'll make you ditch paid services!

28 natural voices, unlimited generations, and WebGPU acceleration. Perfect for journalists and content creators.

Test it with full articles—sounds amazingly human! 🎯🎙️

Xenova/kokoro-web

posted an update 29 days ago

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⭐️ The AI Energy Score project just launched - this is a game-changer for making informed decisions about AI deployment.

You can now see exactly how much energy your chosen model will consume, with a simple 5-star rating system. Think appliance energy labels, but for AI.

Looking at transcription models on the leaderboard is fascinating: choosing between whisper-tiny or whisper-large-v3 can make a 7x difference. Real-time data on these tradeoffs changes everything.

166 models already evaluated across 10 different tasks, from text generation to image classification. The whole thing is public and you can submit your own models to test.

Why this matters:
- Teams can pick efficient models that still get the job done
- Developers can optimize for energy use from day one
- Organizations can finally predict their AI environmental impact

If you're building with AI at any scale, definitely worth checking out.

👉 leaderboard: https://lnkd.in/esrSxetj
👉 blog post: https://lnkd.in/eFJvzHi8

Huge work led by @sasha with @bgamazay @yjernite @sarahooker @regisss @meg

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posted an update about 1 month ago

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🔥 Video AI is taking over! Out of 17 papers dropped on Hugging Face today, 6 are video-focused - from Sliding Tile Attention to On-device Sora. The race for next-gen video tech is heating up! 🎬🚀

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