Generative AI makes me appreciate artists and their creative process so much more. Intention is human only.

It's Friday, let's have some fun with AI! 🕹️🤗
I'm trying out InstantCharacter, the most liked Space of the Week. Let's make @yann-lecun.bsky.social fly! 🦸🏻‍♂️

Try it yourself: huggingface.co/spaces/Insta...
Spaces of the week: huggingface.co/spaces

merve (Merve Noyan) VLMs, vision & co

Follow Merve here: huggingface.co/merve

TGIF! Hugging Face community cooked this week - here are the highlights by the amazing @merve.bsky.social, with LLMs, VLMs, TTS and more from Jina AI, Kyutai Labs, Bytedance, UnslothAI and more!

📚 huggingface.co/collections/...

Follow Merve on @hf.co to get her weekly updates!

AI Agents Are Here. What Now? We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

To wrap your head around agents and think through the ethics, our Society and Ethics team put together a great resource - 👏 @mmitchell.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social @evijit.io @giadapistilli.com

huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...

GitHub - huggingface/smolagents: 🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents. Agents write python code to call tools and orchestrate other agents. 🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents. Agents write python code to call tools and orchestrate other agents. - huggingface/smolagents

The short course is powered by smolagents, a simple, concise framework to build your own agents. smolagents was released 2 weeks ago, already reached 5,000 stars on GitHub! 🤩

smolagents: github.com/huggingface/...

While "agents" is certainly a big marketing theme this year, giving models tools is very effective in making AI systems work a lot better.

x.com/AymericRouch...

😍 New today: Agents 101 dropped in smolcourse - covering code agents, retrieval agents and functional agents.

Free course: github.com/huggingface/...

Blog: kyutai.org/2025/01/13/h...

kyutai/helium-1-preview-2b · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Model: huggingface.co/kyutai/heliu...

.@kyutai-labs.bsky.social just dropped Helium-1 Preview on @hf.co

📲 2B Base LLM for mobile / edge
🌍 Multi-lingual: 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇹
⚖️ CC-BY-4.0 license
🚀 Available today in transformers (pull main)

Helium-1 Preview shows strong capabilities in multi-modal, and a full model is in the works!

transformers.js-examples/attention-visualization at main · huggingface/transformers.js-examples A collection of 🤗 Transformers.js demos and example applications - huggingface/transformers.js-examples

[🖼️] Click the 🐯 image to load your own image

[⚙️] App loads locally the DINOv2 w/ Registers model

[🧭] Explore all the transformer layers and heads to see what features they focus on

Give the app a Like if you think it's cool! If you're curious, source code is here: github.com/huggingface/...

Attention Visualization - a Hugging Face Space by webml-community Vision Transformer Attention Visualization

Try it here - huggingface.co/spaces/webml... - it runs entirely in your browser using transformers.js 🔥

What do Transformers see? 👀

See for yourself with this amazing Vision Transformers self-attention visualization app by @xenova.bsky.social 😍

Prediction - Intel Xeon CPUs will become a workhorse of Gen AI inference workloads

smol models + TGI>llama.cpp = hybrid cloud + on-device Gen AI experiences for 80% of use cases

AI Journalists on Bsky Join the conversation

This is a goldmine: Check out @brigittetousi.hf.co's curated list of AI journalists on Bluesky! Who else should make the list?

This space is buzzing! ✨

Hey Skeeters, you can add your Sky handle to your @huggingface.bsky.social profile - here's how

I lead the business team at 🤗 Hugging Face, the open platform for AI builders.

I work daily with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Dell in the AI ecosystem to make it easy for companies to build their own AI with open source and open models.

So that's what I'll share most about!

Halo: Open Source Health Tracking with Wearables A Blog post by Cyril on Hugging Face

We need more open-source models, datasets & apps in AI healthcare. It makes it not only more likely to benefit everyone but also much safer, controllable and respects privacy!

Great initiative so that everyone can build their own open-source AI health tracker for $12: huggingface.co/blog/cyrilza...

Would anyone be interested in having a HF custom handle?