Florent Daudens

Gpt Oss News Agent - a Hugging Face Space by fdaudens This application allows you to search for and summarize news articles. You can ask for general news, specific topics, or news from particular sites. The app will provide summaries and citations bas...

Want to build an AI Agent?

I made a free cookbook for creating your own news research agent with open-weight GPT-OSS models — no GPU, no setup.

Searches news → pulls articles → summarizes w/ sources → runs in a Gradio chat UI.

Check it out: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...

GPT-OSS:
- 5M downloads in <1 week on @huggingface 🚀
- 400 new models
- lready outpacing DeepSeek R1’s launch numbers, and that’s without counting inference calls
- also the most-liked release of any major LLM this summer

You can run gpt-oss-20B on Google Colab 🤯

Well, it took just 2 hours for GPT-OSS to hit #1 on @hf.co. Don’t remember seeing anything rise that fast!

AudioRag Demo - a Hugging Face Space by fdaudens Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
Blog post from the team working on this: huggingface.co/blog/manu/co...

AudioRAG is becoming real! Just built a demo with ColQwen-Omni that does semantic search on raw audio, no transcription needed.

What’s exciting: it skips transcription, making it faster and better at capturing emotion, ambient sound, and tone, surfacing results text search would miss.

Medical charlatans have existed through history. But AI has turbocharged them | Edna Bonhomme For centuries medical charlatans were individuals selling products in a public square. Now we have the staggering, dangerous power of AI, says Edna Bonhomme, a historian of science

⚠️ AI isn’t just a tool—it’s also supercharging medical misinformation. From fake studies to hallucinated citations, the risks are real when governments and charlatans lean on unchecked AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm New technologies are paving the way for farms that can run themselves, with minimal human input

🤖 On the farm, AI is running the show: self-driving tractors, robot fruit pickers, and drones are making “hands-off” farming real. The future of food? More tech, less sweat. www.wsj.com/tech/autonom...

Kids are asking AI companions to solve their problems, according to a new study. Here’s why that’s a problem | CNN Nearly three-quarters of teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly, new research finds. Moreover, one-third turn to chatbots for social interactions.

🧠 Nearly 3/4 of teens are turning to AI companions for advice, friendship, and comfort. The upside? New connections. The risk? Losing touch with real-world relationships. Wild times for growing up. www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/h...

Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders Mira Murati and several other former OpenAI researchers are behind the buzzy AI startup, now valued at $12 billion and officially out of stealth.

💰 Ex-OpenAI stars just raised a jaw-dropping $2B for Thinking Machines Lab. The AI talent wars are heating up, and the next breakthrough might come from this stealthy new contender. www.wired.com/story/thinki...

Nvidia C.E.O. Treads Carefully in Beijing

🤝 Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang is walking a tightrope in Beijing, balancing US-China tech rivalry while keeping Nvidia at the heart of the AI revolution. The stakes? Trillions and global influence. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/b...

Today’s reads: Nvidia’s CEO navigating US-China tensions, a $2B AI upstart, and why so many teens are confiding in chatbots.

Here’s what I found most interesting 👇

HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

The best part? It's only a 2.2B model! huggingface.co/HuggingFaceT...

more info here: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2

and more modelshttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-text-to-text

5 Things You Need to Know About Moonshot AI and Kimi K2, the New #1 model on the Hub A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face

You might not have heard of Moonshot AI, but within 24 hours, their Kimi K2 model shot to the top of the Hugging Face trending models. So… who are they, and why does this matter?
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...

AI-powered web browsers want to help people save time. But are they effective? Perplexity AI’s browser, Comet, which launched last week, aims to help people accomplish their tasks without having to do the work of actually browsing.

AI-powered browsers like Perplexity’s Comet promise to do your web surfing for you. But do they really save time, or just add more noise? 🌐 www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Google and Brookfield strike $3bn hydro power deal Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence

Google just inked a $3B deal for hydro power to run its AI data centers. Big Tech is scrambling for clean, reliable energy as AI’s appetite explodes. ⚡ www.ft.com/content/d8be...

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf | TechCrunch Cognition is acquiring Windsurf days after Google DeepMind hired its CEO and research leaders, and months after OpenAI offered to buy it.

Cognition (the Devin AI agent crew) snapped up Windsurf, a fast-growing AI coding startup. The battle for AI developer tools is getting fierce. 💻 techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c...

Nvidia just got the OK to sell AI chips to China after its CEO met Trump. Tech, trade, and geopolitics: all on the table. www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-...

Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes

Meta’s superintelligence lab is debating ditching open-source AI for a closed model www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

+ is dropping hundreds of billions on giant AI data centers www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today’s headlines are all about AI power plays: Meta’s open-source future is on the line, Big Tech is pouring billions into data centers and energy, and the AI talent wars just hit a new level.

Let’s dive into the 5 most important stories of the day 👇

Kimi K2 just hit #1 on @hf.co trending models in <24 hours!

This MoE powerhouse packs 1T params with 32B active - crushing coding challenges and autonomous agent tasks.

SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

🧑‍💻 Want to try it? SmolLM3 is fully open-source, with all training recipes and code released. Jump in, run it locally, and see how far a smol model can go! huggingface.co/blog/smollm3

🤖 Dual-mode genius: Switch between fast answers or deep reasoning with simple flags (/think or /no_think). Plus, it supports tool calling for agentic workflows.

🌍 Multilingual: SmolLM3 supports 6 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) and shines across knowledge, reasoning, math, and coding benchmarks. Small but mighty!

🛠️ Under the hood: SmolLM3 uses a transformer decoder with Grouped Query Attention, NoPE for long context, and clever training tweaks for rock-solid stability—handling up to 128k context length with ease!

SmolLM3 outperforms other 3B models and even competing with 4B giants, it’s open, efficient, and ready for your toughest reasoning tasks.

Get architecture details, data mixtures, and the whole three-stage pretraining process. No secrets, no reverse engineering needed—just the complete recipe for hybrid reasoning.

🚀 Meet SmolLM3: a 3B parameter language model that punches above its weight, and comes with the *full* engineering blueprint!

Inside the AI newsroom: Florent Daudens on building tools journalists actually want Hugging Face’s media liaison talks trust, tech, and why the next great newsroom might look more like a dev team.

AI is flipping the entire information ecosystem upside down. Had a chat with @petepachal.bsky.social about what this means for journalism: mediacopilot.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Teaching Data Literacy with Hugging Face's AI Sheets A Blog post by Parul Pandey on Hugging Face

Teaching data literacy to kids using 🤗 tools? This warm piece shows how to use AI Sheets for fun projects.

Love seeing HF used for the next generation. 🌱👩‍💻👦‍💻

huggingface.co/blog/ParulPa...