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🎯 Perplexity drops their FIRST open-weight model on Hugging Face: A decensored DeepSeek-R1 with full reasoning capabilities. Tested on 1000+ examples for unbiased responses.

Check it out: perplexity-ai/r1-1776
Blog post: https://perplexity.ai/hub/blog/open-sourcing-r1-1776

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We crossed 1B+ tokens routed to inference providers partners on HF, that we released just a few days ago.

Just getting started of course but early users seem to like it & always happy to be able to partner with cool startups in the ecosystem.

Have you been using any integration and how can we make it better?

https://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers

posted an update 5 days ago

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Will we soon all have our own personalized AI news agents? And what does it mean for journalism?

Just built a simple prototype based on the Hugging Face course. It lets you get customized news updates on any topic.

Not perfect yet, but you can see where things could go: we'll all be able to build personalized AI agents that curate & analyze news for each of us. And users who could decide to build custom news products for their needs, such as truly personalized newsletters or podcasts.

The implications for both readers & news organizations are significant. To name a few:
- Will news articles remain the best format for informing people?
- What monetization model will work for news organizations?
- How do you create an effective conversion funnel?

👉 Try it here: fdaudens/my-news-agent (Code is open-source)
👉 Check out the course: https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction

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Made some significant updates to my 🤗 semantic datasets search app. If you love falling into a wiki black hole, you might like this...

librarian-bots/huggingface-datasets-semantic-search

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Your weekly recap of open AI is here, and it's packed with models! merve/feb-14-releases-67af876b404cc27c6d837767

👀 Multimodal
> OpenGVLab released InternVideo 2.5 Chat models, new video LMs with long context
> AIDC released Ovis2 model family along with Ovis dataset, new vision LMs in different sizes (1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, 16B, 34B), with video and OCR support
> ColQwenStella-2b is a multilingual visual retrieval model that is sota in it's size
> Hoags-2B-Exp is a new multilingual vision LM with contextual reasoning, long context video understanding

💬 LLMs
A lot of math models!
> Open-R1 team released OpenR1-Math-220k large scale math reasoning dataset, along with Qwen2.5-220K-Math fine-tuned on the dataset, OpenR1-Qwen-7B
> Nomic AI released new Nomic Embed multilingual retrieval model, a MoE with 500 params with 305M active params, outperforming other models
> DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview is a new DeepSeek-R1-Distill fine-tune using distributed RL on math
> LIMO is a new fine-tune of Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct on Math

🗣️ Audio
> Zonos-v0.1 is a new family of speech recognition models, which contains the model itself and embeddings

🖼️ Vision and Image Generation
> We have ported DepthPro of Apple to transformers for your convenience!
> illustrious-xl-v1.0 is a new illustration generation model

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8 New Types of RAG

RAG techniques continuously evolve to enhance LLM response accuracy by retrieving relevant external data during generation. To keep up with current AI trends, new RAG types incorporate deep step-by-step reasoning, tree search, citations, multimodality and other effective techniques.

Here's a list of 8 latest RAG advancements:

1. DeepRAG -> DeepRAG: Thinking to Retrieval Step by Step for Large Language Models (2502.01142)
Models retrieval-augmented reasoning as a Markov Decision Process, enabling strategic retrieval. It dynamically decides when to retrieve external knowledge and when rely on parametric reasoning.

2. RealRAG -> RealRAG: Retrieval-augmented Realistic Image Generation via Self-reflective Contrastive Learning (2502.00848)
Enhances novel object generation by retrieving real-world images and using self-reflective contrastive learning to fill knowledge gap, improve realism and reduce distortions.

3. Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation (CoRAG) -> Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation (2501.14342)
Retrieves information step-by-step and adjusts it, also deciding how much compute power to use at test time. If needed it reformulates queries.

4. VideoRAG -> VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Video Corpus (2501.05874)
Enables unlimited-length video processing, using dual-channel architecture that integrates graph-based textual grounding and multi-modal context encoding.

5. CFT-RAG -> CFT-RAG: An Entity Tree Based Retrieval Augmented Generation Algorithm With Cuckoo Filter (2501.15098)
A tree-RAG acceleration method uses an improved Cuckoo Filter to optimize entity localization, enabling faster retrieval.

6. Contextualized Graph RAG (CG-RAG) -> CG-RAG: Research Question Answering by Citation Graph Retrieval-Augmented LLMs (2501.15067)
Uses Lexical-Semantic Graph Retrieval (LeSeGR) to integrate sparse and dense signals within graph structure and capture citation relationships

7. GFM-RAG -> GFM-RAG: Graph Foundation Model for Retrieval Augmented Generation (2502.01113)
A graph foundation model that uses a graph neural network to refine query-knowledge connections

8. URAG -> URAG: Implementing a Unified Hybrid RAG for Precise Answers in University Admission Chatbots -- A Case Study at HCMUT (2501.16276)
A hybrid system combining rule-based and RAG methods to improve lightweight LLMs for educational chatbots

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posted an update 7 days ago

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🔊 Meet Kokoro Web - Free, ML speech synthesis on your computer, that'll make you ditch paid services!

28 natural voices, unlimited generations, and WebGPU acceleration. Perfect for journalists and content creators.

Test it with full articles—sounds amazingly human! 🎯🎙️

Xenova/kokoro-web

posted an update 8 days ago

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⭐️ The AI Energy Score project just launched - this is a game-changer for making informed decisions about AI deployment.

You can now see exactly how much energy your chosen model will consume, with a simple 5-star rating system. Think appliance energy labels, but for AI.

Looking at transcription models on the leaderboard is fascinating: choosing between whisper-tiny or whisper-large-v3 can make a 7x difference. Real-time data on these tradeoffs changes everything.

166 models already evaluated across 10 different tasks, from text generation to image classification. The whole thing is public and you can submit your own models to test.

Why this matters:
- Teams can pick efficient models that still get the job done
- Developers can optimize for energy use from day one
- Organizations can finally predict their AI environmental impact

If you're building with AI at any scale, definitely worth checking out.

👉 leaderboard: https://lnkd.in/esrSxetj
👉 blog post: https://lnkd.in/eFJvzHi8

Huge work led by @sasha with @bgamazay @yjernite @sarahooker @regisss @meg

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posted an update 11 days ago

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🔥 Video AI is taking over! Out of 17 papers dropped on Hugging Face today, 6 are video-focused - from Sliding Tile Attention to On-device Sora. The race for next-gen video tech is heating up! 🎬🚀

posted an update 15 days ago

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📢 SmolLM2 paper released! Learn how the 🤗 team built one of the best small language models: from data choices to training insights. Check out our findings and share your thoughts! 🤏💡

Check it out: SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model (2502.02737)

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This week in open AI was 🔥 Let's recap! 🤗 merve/january-31-releases-679a10669bd4030090c5de4d
LLMs 💬
> Huge: AllenAI released new Tülu models that outperform DeepSeek R1 using Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) based on Llama 3.1 405B 🔥
> Mistral AI is back to open-source with their "small" 24B models (base & SFT), with Apache 2.0 license 😱
> Alibaba Qwen released their 1M context length models Qwen2.5-Instruct-1M, great for agentic use with Apache 2.0 license 🔥
> Arcee AI released Virtuoso-medium, 32.8B LLMs distilled from DeepSeek V3 with dataset of 5B+ tokens
> Velvet-14B is a new family of 14B Italian LLMs trained on 10T tokens in six languages
> OpenThinker-7B is fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on OpenThoughts dataset

VLMs & vision 👀
> Alibaba Qwen is back with Qwen2.5VL, amazing new capabilities ranging from agentic computer use to zero-shot localization 🔥
> NVIDIA released new series of Eagle2 models with 1B and 9B sizes
> DeepSeek released Janus-Pro, new any-to-any model (image-text generation from image-text input) with MIT license
> BEN2 is a new background removal model with MIT license!

Audio 🗣️
> YuE is a new open-source music generation foundation model, lyrics-to-song generation

Codebase 👩🏻‍💻
> We are open-sourcing our SmolVLM training and eval codebase! https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/tree/main/vision
> Open-R1 is open-source reproduction of R1 by @huggingface science team https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

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posted an update 19 days ago

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📊 R1 just built its own download dashboard!

Some fresh stats: +6M downloads for 800+ derivative models vs 2M for originals. Watch the numbers grow here: fdaudens/deepseek-download-stats

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🎯 Kokoro TTS just hit v1.0! 🚀

Small but mighty: 82M parameters, runs locally, speaks multiple languages. The best part? It's Apache 2.0 licensed!
This could unlock so many possibilities ✨

Check it out: hexgrad/Kokoro-82M

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hexgrad/Kokoro-82M got an upgrade! ⬆️ More voices, more languages, pip install kokoro, and still 82M parameters.

GitHub: https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/kokoro/
Space: hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS

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posted an update 23 days ago

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💪 The open-source community is really unstoppable:

+5M total downloads for DeepSeek models on @hf .co
+4M are from the 700 models created by the community
That's 30% more than yesterday!

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🚀 The open source community is unstoppable: 4M total downloads for DeepSeek models on Hugging Face, with 3.2M coming from the +600 models created by the community.

That's 30% more than yesterday!

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7 Open-source Methods to Improve Video Generation and Understanding

AI community is making great strides toward achieving the full potential of multimodality in video generation and understanding. Last week studies showed that working with videos is now one of the main focuses for improving AI models. Another highlight of the week is that open source, once again, proves its value. For those who were impressed by DeepSeek-R1, we’re with you!

Today, we’re combining these two key focuses and bringing you a list of open-source methods for better video generation and understanding:

1. VideoLLaMA 3 model: Excels in various video and image tasks thanks to vision-centric training approach. VideoLLaMA 3: Frontier Multimodal Foundation Models for Image and Video Understanding (2501.13106)

2. FILMAGENT framework assigns roles to multiple AI agents, like a director, screenwriter, actor, and cinematographer, to automate the filmmaking process in 3D virtual environments. FilmAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Film Automation in Virtual 3D Spaces (2501.12909)

3. Improving Video Generation with Human Feedback (2501.13918) proposes a new VideoReward Model and approach that uses human feedback to refine video generation models.

4. DiffuEraser video inpainting model, based on stable diffusion, is designed to fill in missing areas with detailed, realistic content and to ensure consistent structures across frames. DiffuEraser: A Diffusion Model for Video Inpainting (2501.10018)

5. MAGI is a hybrid video gen model that combines masked and casual modeling. Its key innovation, Complete Teacher Forcing (CTF), conditions masked frames on fully visible frames. Taming Teacher Forcing for Masked Autoregressive Video Generation (2501.12389)

6. Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise (2501.08331) proposes motion control, allowing users to guide how objects or the camera move in generated videos. Its noise warping algorithm replaces random noise in videos with structured noise based on motion info.

7. Video Depth Anything model estimates depth consistently in super-long videos (several minutes or more) without sacrificing quality or speed. Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos (2501.12375)

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🔥So many exciting releases coming from the Chinese community this month!
zh-ai-community/2025-january-6786b054f492fb223591269e

LLMs:
✨ Qwen2.5 -1M by Alibaba
Qwen/qwen25-1m-679325716327ec07860530ba
✨ InternLM3-8B-Instruct by Shanghai AI Lab
internlm/internlm3-8b-instruct
✨ MiniMax-Text-01 by MiniMax AI
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01
✨ RWKV-7 by BlinkDL -- RNN + Transformer 👀
BlinkDL/rwkv-7-world
✨ DeepSeek-R1 by DeepSeek -- THE ONE 🙌
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
✨ Baichuan-M1-14B by Baichuan - Medical 🩺
baichuan-inc/Baichuan-M1-14B-Base
✨ Qwen2.5-Math-PRM by Alibaba - Math 🔢
Qwen/Qwen2.5-Math-PRM-7B

Code:
✨ Tare by Bytedance
https://trae.ai

TTS:
✨ T2A-01-HD by MiniMax AI
https://hailuo.ai/audio
✨ LLaSA by HKUST Audio
HKUSTAudio/Llasa-3B

MLLM:
✨ Kimi k1.5 by Moonshot AI
https://kimi.ai
✨ MiniCPM-o-2_6 by OpenBMB
openbmb/MiniCPM-o-2_6
✨ Sa2VA-4B by ByteDance
ByteDance/Sa2VA-4B
✨ VideoLLaMA 3 by Alibaba DAMO
DAMO-NLP-SG/videollama3-678cdda9281a0e32fe79af15
✨ LLaVA-Mini by Chinese Academy of Sciences
ICTNLP/llava-mini-llama-3.1-8b
✨Hunyuan-7B by Tencent
tencent/Hunyuan-7B-Instruct
✨ Hunyuan 3D 2.0 by Tencent
tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
✨MiniMax-VL-01 by MiniMax AI - A non transformer based VLM 👀
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-VL-01

Agent:
✨ UI-TARS by Bytedance
bytedance-research/UI-TARS-7B-SFT
✨ GLM-PC by Zhipu AI
https://cogagent.aminer.cn

Dataset:
✨ Fineweb-Edu-Chinese by Opencsg
opencsg/Fineweb-Edu-Chinese-V2.1
✨ Multimodal_textbook by Alibaba
DAMO-NLP-SG/multimodal_textbook
✨ MME-Finance by Hithink AI

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Yes, DeepSeek R1's release is impressive. But the real story is what happened in just 7 days after:

- Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...

- The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on Hugging Face. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.

The reason? DeepSeek models are open-weight, letting anyone build on top of them. Interesting to note that the community focused on quantized versions for better efficiency & accessibility. They want models that use less memory, run faster, and are more energy-efficient.

When you empower builders, innovation explodes. For everyone. 🚀

The most popular community model? @bartowski 's DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF version — 1M downloads alone.

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What's at stake with Meta's decision to change its content moderation policy? @giadap has, by far, the most thoughtful take I’ve seen on this question. Read her op-ed: https://www.techpolicy.press/when-freedom-bites-back-meta-moderation-and-the-limits-of-tolerance/

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