Before 2020, most of the AI field was open and collaborative. For me, that was the key factor that accelerated scientific progress and made the impossible possible—just look at the “T” in ChatGPT, which comes from the Transformer architecture openly shared by Google.
Then came the myth that AI was too dangerous to share, and companies started optimizing for short-term revenue. That led many major AI labs and researchers to stop sharing and collaborating.
With OAI and sama now saying they're willing to share open weights again, we have a real chance to return to a golden age of AI progress and democratization—powered by openness and collaboration, in the US and around the world.
This is incredibly exciting. Let’s go, open science and open-source AI!
Very interesting security section by @yjernite@lvwerra@reach-vb@dvilasuero & the team replicating R1. Broadly applicable to most open-source models & some to APIs (but APIs have a lot more additional risks because you're not in control of the underlying system):
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!
I was chatting with @peakji , one of the cofounders of Manu AI, who told me he was on Hugging Face (very cool!).
He shared an interesting insight which is that agentic capabilities might be more of an alignment problem rather than a foundational capability issue. Similar to the difference between GPT-3 and InstructGPT, some open-source foundation models are simply trained to 'answer everything in one response regardless of the complexity of the question' - after all, that's the user preference in chatbot use cases. Just a bit of post-training on agentic trajectories can make an immediate and dramatic difference.
As a thank you to the community, he shared 100 invite code first-come first serve, just use “HUGGINGFACE” to get access!
Super happy to welcome Nvidia as our latest enterprise hub customer. They have almost 2,000 team members using Hugging Face, and close to 20,000 followers of their org. Can't wait to see what they'll open-source for all of us in the coming months!
Six predictions for AI in 2025 (and a review of how my 2024 predictions turned out):
- There will be the first major public protest related to AI - A big company will see its market cap divided by two or more because of AI - At least 100,000 personal AI robots will be pre-ordered - China will start to lead the AI race (as a consequence of leading the open-source AI race). - There will be big breakthroughs in AI for biology and chemistry. - We will begin to see the economic and employment growth potential of AI, with 15M AI builders on Hugging Face.
How my predictions for 2024 turned out:
- A hyped AI company will go bankrupt or get acquired for a ridiculously low price ✅ (Inflexion, AdeptAI,...)
- Open-source LLMs will reach the level of the best closed-source LLMs ✅ with QwQ and dozens of others
- Big breakthroughs in AI for video, time-series, biology and chemistry ✅ for video 🔴for time-series, biology and chemistry
- We will talk much more about the cost (monetary and environmental) of AI ✅Monetary 🔴Environmental (😢)
- A popular media will be mostly AI-generated ✅ with NotebookLM by Google
- 10 millions AI builders on Hugging Face leading to no increase of unemployment 🔜currently 7M of AI builders on Hugging Face
