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On April 15th, Hugging Face, the renowned open-source large language model platform, announced its acquisition of Pollen Robotics, marking its official entry into the physical robotics field. While specific transaction terms remain undisclosed, the acquisition will bring approximately 20 Pollen Robotics employees to Hugging Face. This represents the company's largest personnel acquisition to date, signifying its ambition in expanding its business areas. Hugging Face's co-founder...

Hugging Face, a leading AI development platform, recently announced the acquisition of Pollen Robotics, a French humanoid robotics startup, marking its strategic foray into the robotics sector. While the financial details of the deal remain undisclosed, the acquisition has generated significant attention. Founded in 2016 by engineers Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, Pollen Robotics' flagship product, Reachy2, is an advanced humanoid robot already utilized at Cornell...

Hugging Face, the AI development platform, has announced the acquisition of French robotics startup Pollen Robotics for an undisclosed sum. This marks Hugging Face's first foray into hardware and aims to promote the global adoption and development of open-source robotics. Pollen Robotics, founded in 2016 and based in Bordeaux, France, is known for its open-source humanoid robot, Reachy2. Priced at approximately $70,000, Reachy2 has been adopted by institutions such as Cornell University.

Hugging Face, a leading open-source AI community platform, has launched a highly anticipated new feature: users can quickly see which machine learning models their computer hardware can run via platform settings. Users simply add their hardware information, such as GPU model, to their Hugging Face profile settings (located at the top right corner: Profile Icon > Settings > Local Apps and Hardware).

Beijing—ByteDance recently released its latest text-to-speech (TTS) model, MegaTTS3, on the Hugging Face open-source AI community. This release has quickly garnered attention from AI researchers and developers worldwide due to its breakthroughs in lightweight design and multilingual support. Based on community feedback and official information, MegaTTS3 is hailed as a significant advancement in speech synthesis. MegaTTS3's core highlights are...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek quietly released its large language model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, sending ripples through the AI industry. The model, weighing in at 641GB, appeared on Hugging Face, showcasing DeepSeek's understated yet impactful style—a release with only an empty README file and model weights. Licensed under MIT, the model is free for commercial use and can run on consumer-grade hardware, such as a Mac equipped with an M...

Transforming complex documents into structured data has long been a challenging problem in computer science. Previous approaches involved cumbersome multi-model pipelines or massive, hallucination-prone, and expensive multimodal models. However, IBM and Hugging Face have recently introduced SmolDocling, a lightweight 256M parameter open-source Vision-Language Model (VLM)...

According to the latest rankings released by the Hugging Face open-source community, Alibaba's Wanxiang large model, after only 6 days of open-sourcing, has surpassed DeepSeek-R1 to claim the top spot on both the trending models and model hub leaderboards. This achievement not only highlights Wanxiang's superior technical performance but also reflects its widespread recognition and influence within the global open-source community.

Hugging Face has recently launched an online learning course called 'Agent Course', aimed at helping learners deepen their understanding of the fundamentals and applications of intelligent agents. The course is rich in content and is divided into five modules, progressing from basic concepts of agents to final assessment assignments, assisting students in mastering the necessary skills. The first module is 'Welcome to the Course', providing an overview, guidelines, and required tools to ensure that learners have a solid foundation during their studies. Next is

Hugging Face, in collaboration with Physical Intelligence, has launched the groundbreaking robotic foundation model Pi0. This is the first open-source model capable of directly transforming natural language commands into robotic actions, marking a new era in robotics technology. The Pi0 model has been trained on seven different robotic platforms and has mastered 68 unique tasks, enabling it to perform complex operations ranging from folding clothes to tidying up tables. The model utilizes innovative flow matching technology to generate smooth real-time actions at a frequency of 50Hz.

Recently, Hugging Face partnered with Physical Intelligence to launch 'Pi0' (Pi-Zero), the first foundational model that directly converts natural language commands into physical actions. This innovative release has garnered widespread attention, with Hugging Face's Chief Research Scientist Remi Cadene announcing on social media, 'Pi0 is the most advanced visual-language action model that can translate natural language commands into autonomous behaviors.'