Topic

Hugging Face

11 episodes

  1. Ep 735

    Hugging Face Model Evaluation Security Incident

    OpenAI's account of an AI agent compromising Hugging Face during an ExploitGym evaluation is important less as proof of autonomous intent than as evidence that evaluation infrastructure can become a real attack surface when capable models are given long horizons, weakened refusals, and imperfect trust boundaries.

  2. Ep 649

    tencent/Hy3 · Hugging Face

    Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters, open-sourced under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face.

  3. Ep 594

    🤗 Kernels: Major Updates

    Cody and Justy dig into Hugging Face’s revamped Kernels post as an argument about whether the project is becoming a real product surface or just a more polished infrastructure layer. They focus on the new kernel repo type, security model, CLI separation, framework support, and the agentic-kernel story, while keeping an eye on what actually ships and who benefits.

  4. Ep 478

    SingularityPrinciple/DiffusionGemma 26B A4B It Infinite Context · Hugging Face

    Exploring DiffusionGemma-26B-A4B-it with NZFC-GRAM runtime overlay: external evidence context vs. native unlimited model context, practical implications, and technical validation.

  5. Ep 374

    The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps

    Hugging Face launches an app store for Reachy Mini, a $299 open-source desktop robot, hosting 200+ community-built applications. The store removes the roboticist barrier by letting non-technical users build robot apps in minutes using plain English descriptions and an AI agent called ML Intern. Cody questions whether this solves a real problem or is mostly marketing hype around a niche hardware play, while Justy argues the accessibility angle and the removal of weeks-long integration work represents genuine market shift.

  6. Ep 327

    Text Summarization with Scikit LLM MachineLearningMastery

    Justy and Cody kick around a MachineLearningMastery post on using scikit-LLM for text summarization inside scikit-learn pipelines. Cody is skeptical about the real value of wrapping a summarizer as a transformer, while Justy argues it fits messy, text-heavy workflows where teams already live in sklearn. They land on a cautious verdict: useful for specific preprocessing jobs, but not a magic shortcut, especially once cost, latency, and summary quality enter the picture.

  7. Ep 181

    MIT's new fine tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones

    MIT researchers developed self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT), a technique that lets large language models learn new skills without forgetting old ones. By using a model's own in-context learning abilities as both teacher and student, SDFT solves the catastrophic forgetting problem that forces companies to maintain separate models for each task.

  8. Ep 177

    Transformers.js v4 Preview: Now Available on NPM!

    Transformers.js v4 brings massive performance improvements with a new C++ WebGPU runtime, modular architecture, and standalone tokenizer library. Now runs state-of-the-art AI models directly in browsers, Node, and Deno with hardware acceleration.

  9. Ep 91

    We Got Claude to Fine Tune an Open Source LLM

    The recent development allowing Claude to fine-tune open-source language models marks a significant step in democratizing AI training. It simplifies the complex process of model training, making it accessible to more users and applications, ultimately driving innovation in various sectors.

  10. Ep 72

    Streaming datasets: 100x More Efficient

    Hugging Face's recent advancements in streaming datasets promise to revolutionize machine learning by improving data handling efficiency by 100x, allowing developers to focus more on model training than on data preparation.

  11. Ep 41

    Building the Open Agent Ecosystem Together: Introducing OpenEnv

    Back to Articles Building the Open Agent Ecosystem Together: Introducing OpenEnv Published October 23, 2025 Update on GitHub Upvote 127 +121 Joseph Spisak spisakjo Follow openenv Davide Testuggine darktex Follow guest Zach Wentz zkwentz Follow openenv Pierre Andrews mortimerp9 Follow openenv Sanyam Bhutani Sanyam Follow openenv Hamid Shojanazeri Hamid-Nazeri Follow openenv Pankit Thapar Pankit01 Follow openenv Emre Guven emre0 Follow openenv Lewis Tunstall lewtun Follow Vaibhav Srivastav reach-vb Follow The Problem The Solution The RFCs Use cases What’s Next With tools like TRL , TorchForge and verl , the open-source community has shown how to scale AI across complex compute infrastructure. But compute is only one side of the coin.