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meg 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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🤖 Did you know your voice might be cloned without your consent from just *one sentence* of audio?
That's not great. So with @frimelle , we brainstormed a new idea for developers who want to curb malicious use: ✨The Voice Consent Gate.✨
Details, code, here: https://huggingface.co/blog/voice-consent-gate
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evijit 
posted an update 2 months ago
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AI for Scientific Discovery Won't Work Without Fixing How We Collaborate.

My co-author @cgeorgiaw and I just published a paper challenging a core assumption: that the main barriers to AI in science are technical. They're not. They're social.

Key findings:

🚨 The "AI Scientist" myth delays progress: Waiting for AGI devalues human expertise and obscures science's real purpose: cultivating understanding, not just outputs.
📊 Wrong incentives: Datasets have 100x longer impact than models, yet data curation is undervalued.
⚠️ Broken collaboration: Domain scientists want understanding. ML researchers optimize performance. Without shared language, projects fail.
🔍 Fragmentation costs years: Harmonizing just 9 cancer files took 329 hours.

Why this matters: Upstream bottlenecks like efficient PDE solvers could accelerate discovery across multiple sciences. CASP mobilized a community around protein structure, enabling AlphaFold. We need this for dozens of challenges.

Thus, we're launching Hugging Science! A global community addressing these barriers through collaborative challenges, open toolkits, education, and community-owned infrastructure. Please find all the links below!

Paper: AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem (2509.06580)
Join: hugging-science
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/VYkdEVjJ5J
Tonic 
posted an update 3 months ago
meg 
posted an update 3 months ago
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🤖 As AI-generated content is shared in movies/TV/across the web, there's one simple low-hanging fruit 🍇 to help know what's real: Visible watermarks. With the Gradio team, I've made sure it's trivially easy to add this disclosure to images, video, chatbot text. See how: https://huggingface.co/blog/watermarking-with-gradio
Thanks to the code collab in particular from @abidlabs and Yuvraj Sharma.
Tonic 
posted an update 3 months ago
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COMPUTER CONTROL IS ON-DEVICE !

🏡🤖 78 % of EU smart-home owners DON’T trust cloud voice assistants.

So we killed the cloud.

Meet Exté: a palm-sized Android device that sees, hears & speaks your language - 100 % offline, 0 % data sent anywhere.

🔓 We submitted our technologies for consideration to the Liquid AI hackathon.

📊 Dataset: 79 k UI-action pairs on Hugging Face (largest Android-control corpus ever) Tonic/android-operator-episodes

⚡ Model: 98 % task accuracy, 678MB compressed , fits on existing android devices ! Tonic/l-android-control

🛤️ Experiment Tracker : check out the training on our TrackioApp Tonic/l-android-control

🎮 Live Model Demo: Upload an Android Screenshot and instructions to see the model in action ! Tonic/l-operator-demo



Built in a garage, funded by pre-orders, no VC. Now we’re scaling to 1 k installer units.

We’re giving 50 limited-edition prototypes to investors , installers & researchers who want to co-design the sovereign smart home.

👇 Drop “EUSKERA” in the comments if you want an invite, tag a friend who still thinks Alexa is “convenient,” and smash ♥️ if AI should belong to people - not servers.
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yjernite 
posted an update 3 months ago
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Tremendous quality of life upgrade on the Hugging Face Hub - we now have auto-complete emojis 🤗 🥳 👏 🙌 🎉

Get ready for lots more very serious analysis on a whole range of topics from yours truly now that we have unlocked this full range of expression 😄 🤔 🗣 🙊
Tonic 
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🙋🏻‍♂️ Hey there folks ,

Just wanted to annouce 🏭SmolFactory : it's the quickest and best way to finetune SmolLM3 and GPT-OSS-20B on huggingface !

Basicaly it's an app you can run on huggingface by duplicating the space and running your training directly on huggingface GPUs .

It will help you basically select datasets and models, fine tune your model , make an experiment tracker you can use on your mobile phone , push all your model card and even automatically make a demo for you on huggingface so you can directly test it out when it's done !

check out the blog to learn more : https://huggingface.co/blog/Tonic/smolfactory

or just try the app directly :
Tonic/SmolFactory

you can vibe check the cool models I made :
French SmolLM3 : Tonic/Petite-LLM-3
Medical GPT-OSS : Tonic/med-gpt-oss-20b-demo

check out the model cards :
multilingual reasoner (gpt-oss) - Tonic/gpt-oss-20b-multilingual-reasoner
med-gpt-oss : Tonic/med-gpt-oss-20b
petite-elle-l-aime : Tonic/petite-elle-L-aime-3-sft

github repo if you like command line more than gradio : https://github.com/josephrp/smolfactory

drop some likes on these links it's really much appreciated !

feedback and PRs are welcome !
meg 
posted an update 4 months ago
meg 
posted an update 4 months ago
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🤖 ICYMI: Yesterday, Hugging Face and OpenAI partnered to bring open source GPT to the public. This is a Big Deal in "AI world".

0. Common ground setting: OpenAI is the ChatGPT people. An “open source” model is one whose weights are available — that means the model can be “yours”.
1. You don’t have to interact with the company directly, nor give them your interactions, to use the system. The company can't "surveil" you.
2. You can evaluate the unique contributions of their SOTA model much more rigorously than you can when there are collections of models+code behind a closed API. You can find out specifically what the model can and can't do.
3. And you can directly customize it for whatever you'd like. Fine-tuning, wherein you give the model data that's tailored to your use cases and train it some more on that data, is trivial* when you have the model weights.
*Provided you have the compute.
4. You can directly benchmark whatever you'd like. Biases? Energy usage? Strengths/weaknesses? Go for it. You wants it you gots it--this transparency helps people understand SOTA *in general*, not just for this model, but points to, e.g., what's going on with closed Google models as well.
5. One of the most powerful things about "openness" that I've learned is that it cultivates ecosystems of collaborators building on top of one another's brilliance to make systems that are significantly better than they would be if created in isolation.
But, caveat wrt my own philosophy...
6. I do not take it as a given that advancing LLMs is good, and have a lot more to say wrt where I think innovation should focus more. For example, a focus on *data* -- curation, measurement, consent, credit, compensation, safety -- would deeply improve technology for everyone.
7. The transparency this release provides is massive for people who want to *learn* about LLMs. For the next generation of technologists to advance over the current, they MUST be able to learn about what's happening now. (cont...)
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alielfilali01 
posted an update 4 months ago