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OpenAI Says AI Models Went Rogue Triggering Unusual Breach During Testing
OpenAI's advanced models escaped containment, reach the internet, and break into Hugging Face while being tested in a controlled environment.
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AI Is Now Fighting AI And China May Have An Edge
A rogue AI agent launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face, a popular platform for open-source AI models. The company fought AI with AI.
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Hugging Face Releases SmolVLA Open Source AI Model For Robotics Workflows
Hugging Face released an open-source vision language action (VLA) artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed SmolVLA, the large language model is aimed at robotics workflows and training-related tasks. The company claims that the AI model is small and efficient enough to run locally on a computer with a single GPU, or a MacBook.
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Hugging Face Releases a Free AI Agent That Can Complete Computer-Based Tasks
Hugging Face released a demo of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Tuesday that can complete various web-based tasks. Dubbed Open Computer Agent, the tool is available for free, and anyone can go to the website to access the agent. Since it can perform tasks on web browsers, it can access websites such as Google Search, Maps, and even ticket ...
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Hugging Face Expands LeRobot Platform With Multimodal Dataset for AI-Powered Cars
Hugging Face announced the expansion of its LeRobot platform on Wednesday with a large dataset aimed at automotive automation. The online artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) repository said that the dataset was created in collaboration with the AI startup Yaak. Dubbed Learning to Drive (L2D), the dataset was collected from a suit...
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Alibaba Releases Open-Source Wan 2.1 Suite of AI Video Generation Models, Claimed to Outperform OpenAI’s Sora
Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were first i...
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Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hub, is said to contain malicious ML models. A cybersecurity research firm discovered two such models that contain code that can be used to package and distribute malware to those who download these files. As per the researchers, threat actors are using a hard-to-detect method...
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Hugging Face Is Trying to Build a Fully Open-Source Version of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model
Hugging Face announced a new initiative on Tuesday to build Open-R1, a fully open reproduction of the DeepSeek-R1 model. The hedge fund-backed Chinese AI firm released the DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model in the public domain last week, sending shockwaves across Silicon Valley and NASDAQ. A big reason was that such an advanced and lar...
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Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops
Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older two-b...
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Microsoft Open Sources Phi-4 Small Language Model, Available For Download on Hugging Face
Microsoft open-sourced its Phi-4 small language model on Wednesday. The latest artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Phi series was released last month, however, at the time it was only available via the company’s Azure AI Foundry. At the time, the Redmond-based tech giant said that it would soon make the source code of the AI model available...
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Hugging Face Introduces Smolagents Library to Build AI Agents With Open-Source LLMs
Hugging Face introduced a new code library last week to enable developers to easily build artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Dubbed smolagents, the tool defines the basic logic for general purpose simple AI agents that can perform actions by executing them in code. Smolagent can be connected with any open-source large language model (LLM) or a se...
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Hugging Face Showcases How Test-Time Compute Scaling Can Help SLMs Outperform Larger AI Models
Hugging Face shared a new case study last week showcasing how small language models (SLMs) can outperform larger models. In the post, the platform’s researchers claimed that instead of increasing the training time of artificial intelligence (AI) models, focusing on the test-time compute can show enhanced results for AI models.
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Hugging Face Introduces Open-Source SmolVLM Vision Language Model Focused on Efficiency
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform, introduced a new vision-focused AI model last week. Dubbed SmolVLM (where VLM is an acronym for vision language model), it is a compact-sized model that is focused on efficiency. The company claims that due to its smaller size and high efficiency, it can be useful fo...
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Alibaba Researchers Unveil Marco-o1 AI Model As Another Reasoning-Focused Competitor to OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba recently introduced a reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Marco-o1. The model is similar to the QwQ-32B large language model, which is also optimised for tasks requiring advanced reasoning capabilities, however, one important distinction is that the Marco-o1 is a smaller model and is distilled from the Qwen2-7B-Instr...
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OpenAI Says AI Models Went Rogue Triggering Unusual Breach During Testing
OpenAI's advanced models escaped containment, reach the internet, and break into Hugging Face while being tested in a controlled environment.
-
AI Is Now Fighting AI And China May Have An Edge
A rogue AI agent launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face, a popular platform for open-source AI models. The company fought AI with AI.
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Hugging Face Releases SmolVLA Open Source AI Model For Robotics Workflows
Hugging Face released an open-source vision language action (VLA) artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed SmolVLA, the large language model is aimed at robotics workflows and training-related tasks. The company claims that the AI model is small and efficient enough to run locally on a computer with a single GPU, or a MacBook.
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Hugging Face Releases a Free AI Agent That Can Complete Computer-Based Tasks
Hugging Face released a demo of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Tuesday that can complete various web-based tasks. Dubbed Open Computer Agent, the tool is available for free, and anyone can go to the website to access the agent. Since it can perform tasks on web browsers, it can access websites such as Google Search, Maps, and even ticket ...
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Hugging Face Expands LeRobot Platform With Multimodal Dataset for AI-Powered Cars
Hugging Face announced the expansion of its LeRobot platform on Wednesday with a large dataset aimed at automotive automation. The online artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) repository said that the dataset was created in collaboration with the AI startup Yaak. Dubbed Learning to Drive (L2D), the dataset was collected from a suit...
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Alibaba Releases Open-Source Wan 2.1 Suite of AI Video Generation Models, Claimed to Outperform OpenAI’s Sora
Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were first i...
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Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hub, is said to contain malicious ML models. A cybersecurity research firm discovered two such models that contain code that can be used to package and distribute malware to those who download these files. As per the researchers, threat actors are using a hard-to-detect method...
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Hugging Face Is Trying to Build a Fully Open-Source Version of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model
Hugging Face announced a new initiative on Tuesday to build Open-R1, a fully open reproduction of the DeepSeek-R1 model. The hedge fund-backed Chinese AI firm released the DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model in the public domain last week, sending shockwaves across Silicon Valley and NASDAQ. A big reason was that such an advanced and lar...
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Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops
Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older two-b...
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Microsoft Open Sources Phi-4 Small Language Model, Available For Download on Hugging Face
Microsoft open-sourced its Phi-4 small language model on Wednesday. The latest artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Phi series was released last month, however, at the time it was only available via the company’s Azure AI Foundry. At the time, the Redmond-based tech giant said that it would soon make the source code of the AI model available...
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Hugging Face Introduces Smolagents Library to Build AI Agents With Open-Source LLMs
Hugging Face introduced a new code library last week to enable developers to easily build artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Dubbed smolagents, the tool defines the basic logic for general purpose simple AI agents that can perform actions by executing them in code. Smolagent can be connected with any open-source large language model (LLM) or a se...
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Hugging Face Showcases How Test-Time Compute Scaling Can Help SLMs Outperform Larger AI Models
Hugging Face shared a new case study last week showcasing how small language models (SLMs) can outperform larger models. In the post, the platform’s researchers claimed that instead of increasing the training time of artificial intelligence (AI) models, focusing on the test-time compute can show enhanced results for AI models.
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Hugging Face Introduces Open-Source SmolVLM Vision Language Model Focused on Efficiency
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform, introduced a new vision-focused AI model last week. Dubbed SmolVLM (where VLM is an acronym for vision language model), it is a compact-sized model that is focused on efficiency. The company claims that due to its smaller size and high efficiency, it can be useful fo...
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Alibaba Researchers Unveil Marco-o1 AI Model As Another Reasoning-Focused Competitor to OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba recently introduced a reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Marco-o1. The model is similar to the QwQ-32B large language model, which is also optimised for tasks requiring advanced reasoning capabilities, however, one important distinction is that the Marco-o1 is a smaller model and is distilled from the Qwen2-7B-Instr...
