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If you didn't yet, you should read the technical report for SmolVLA, published yesterday by the Hugging Face robotics team!
➡️ Amongst other ideas, it introduces "Async inference" to boost their robot actions.
Robots have a problem: performing the actions takes time (Unlike agents where action executions are near-instant!)
Most often, robots wait until they've finished performing actions to start thinking about hte next steps. This is a huge latency cost!
So the team decided to have the PolicyServer (aka the"thinking" part) restart early : instead of waiting for the n observations they just sent to be completed, they gather the observations after k < n steps, and start preparing the next actions based on that while the steps are running until n, to directly send their next steps.
➡️ This boosted robot throughput by ~30%! (nearly 2× tasks per time window).
gg @cadene and team! 👏
Report here: SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics (2506.01844)
➡️ Amongst other ideas, it introduces "Async inference" to boost their robot actions.
Robots have a problem: performing the actions takes time (Unlike agents where action executions are near-instant!)
Most often, robots wait until they've finished performing actions to start thinking about hte next steps. This is a huge latency cost!
So the team decided to have the PolicyServer (aka the"thinking" part) restart early : instead of waiting for the n observations they just sent to be completed, they gather the observations after k < n steps, and start preparing the next actions based on that while the steps are running until n, to directly send their next steps.
➡️ This boosted robot throughput by ~30%! (nearly 2× tasks per time window).
gg @cadene and team! 👏
Report here: SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics (2506.01844)
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This is the story of how open source AI created a $3M business for a news company:
Clare Spencer tells on the GAIN blog how a Danish software engineer found OpenAI's Whisper model and turned it into Good Tape. It's now generating $3M ARR for news service Zetland.
Great playbook on how to build a good product:
- This idea came from a software engineer, Jakob Steinn, who was not only able to spot a new model, but also listen to feedback from his colleagues in the newsrooms (he thought they would use it for translation, but they were more interested in transcription in Danish)
- They built iteratively: they went from running the model in the terminal to a notebook to a full-fledged web interface
- They didn't just wrap the API. They rebuilt the transcription engine from scratch, moved it to TPUs for 45-second processing of hour-long audio, and added EU-based data sovereignty
Now Good Tape has 2.5M users worldwide, with only 30-35% being journalists.
Small languages (Danish, Finnish, Croatian, Hebrew) were underserved by existing tools - suddenly there's a "very very big market" when you put them together.
This shows how open source AI can solve real workflow problems and create sustainable businesses. Sometimes the best opportunities emerge from solving your own daily problems.
Worth a read: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-a-danish-news-service-made-a-profit-with-its-transcription-tool-285bc05b7cf9
Clare Spencer tells on the GAIN blog how a Danish software engineer found OpenAI's Whisper model and turned it into Good Tape. It's now generating $3M ARR for news service Zetland.
Great playbook on how to build a good product:
- This idea came from a software engineer, Jakob Steinn, who was not only able to spot a new model, but also listen to feedback from his colleagues in the newsrooms (he thought they would use it for translation, but they were more interested in transcription in Danish)
- They built iteratively: they went from running the model in the terminal to a notebook to a full-fledged web interface
- They didn't just wrap the API. They rebuilt the transcription engine from scratch, moved it to TPUs for 45-second processing of hour-long audio, and added EU-based data sovereignty
Now Good Tape has 2.5M users worldwide, with only 30-35% being journalists.
Small languages (Danish, Finnish, Croatian, Hebrew) were underserved by existing tools - suddenly there's a "very very big market" when you put them together.
This shows how open source AI can solve real workflow problems and create sustainable businesses. Sometimes the best opportunities emerge from solving your own daily problems.
Worth a read: https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-a-danish-news-service-made-a-profit-with-its-transcription-tool-285bc05b7cf9
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🎵 Dream come true for content creators! TIGER AI can extract voice, effects & music from ANY audio file 🤯
This lightweight model uses frequency band-split technology to separate speech like magic. Kudos to @fffiloni for the amazing demo! fffiloni/TIGER-audio-extraction
This lightweight model uses frequency band-split technology to separate speech like magic. Kudos to @fffiloni for the amazing demo! fffiloni/TIGER-audio-extraction
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Just completed the AI Agents course and wow, that capstone project really makes you understand how to build agents that can handle real-world complexity!
The final project uses the GAIA dataset - your agent has to solve tasks like analyzing Excel files, processing audio recordings, answering questions about YouTube videos, and diving into research papers. This isn't toy examples, it's the messy, multimodal stuff agents need to handle in practice.
Whether you’re just getting started with agents or want to go deeper with tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and SmolAgents, this course has tons of useful stuff. A few key insights:
- Code agents are incredibly versatile once you get the architecture right
- The sweet spot is finding the right balance of guidance vs autonomy for each use case
- Once the logic clicks, the possibilities really are endless - it's like letting LLMs break free from the chatbox
The course is free and the certification deadline is July 1st, 2025.
The Hugging Face team built something special here. If you're tired of AI that impresses in demos but fails in practice, this is your path to building agents that actually deliver. https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction
Best part? There's the MCP course next!
The final project uses the GAIA dataset - your agent has to solve tasks like analyzing Excel files, processing audio recordings, answering questions about YouTube videos, and diving into research papers. This isn't toy examples, it's the messy, multimodal stuff agents need to handle in practice.
Whether you’re just getting started with agents or want to go deeper with tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and SmolAgents, this course has tons of useful stuff. A few key insights:
- Code agents are incredibly versatile once you get the architecture right
- The sweet spot is finding the right balance of guidance vs autonomy for each use case
- Once the logic clicks, the possibilities really are endless - it's like letting LLMs break free from the chatbox
The course is free and the certification deadline is July 1st, 2025.
The Hugging Face team built something special here. If you're tired of AI that impresses in demos but fails in practice, this is your path to building agents that actually deliver. https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction
Best part? There's the MCP course next!
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A new research paper from KAIST builds on smolagents to push boundaries of distillation 🥳
➡️ "Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools" teaches that, when trying to distil reasoning capability from a strong LLM ("teacher") into a smaller one ("student"), it's much better to use Agent traces than CoT traces.
Advantages are:
1. Improved generalization
Intuitively, this is because your agent can encounter more "surprising" results by interacting with its environment : for example, a web research called by the LLM teacher in agent mode can bring results that the LLM teacher would not have generated in CoT.
2. Reduce hallucinations
The trace won't hallucinate tool call outputs!
Thank you @akseljoonas for mentioning this paper!
➡️ "Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools" teaches that, when trying to distil reasoning capability from a strong LLM ("teacher") into a smaller one ("student"), it's much better to use Agent traces than CoT traces.
Advantages are:
1. Improved generalization
Intuitively, this is because your agent can encounter more "surprising" results by interacting with its environment : for example, a web research called by the LLM teacher in agent mode can bring results that the LLM teacher would not have generated in CoT.
2. Reduce hallucinations
The trace won't hallucinate tool call outputs!
Thank you @akseljoonas for mentioning this paper!
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Two lines in your terminal and you have an AI agent running whatever model and tools you want 🤯
Just tried the new Tiny Agents in Python. Asked it which team won the Italian Serie A soccer league and to export the final table to CSV. Coolest thing is you can interact with the agent, guide it, and correct its mistakes.
The agent connected to web browsing tools, searched for Serie A standings, identified the champion, and generated a CSV export.
The setup:
That's it. The MCP protocol handles all the tool integrations automatically - no custom APIs to write, no complex setups. Want file system access? It's already there. Need web browsing? Built in.
You can swap models, change inference providers, run local models, or add new tools just by editing a simple JSON config. You can also use Gradio Spaces as MCP servers! The entire agent is ~70 lines of Python - essentially a while loop that streams responses and executes tools. Everything is open-source. ❤️ Hugging Face
Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/python-tiny-agents
Just tried the new Tiny Agents in Python. Asked it which team won the Italian Serie A soccer league and to export the final table to CSV. Coolest thing is you can interact with the agent, guide it, and correct its mistakes.
The agent connected to web browsing tools, searched for Serie A standings, identified the champion, and generated a CSV export.
The setup:
pip install "huggingface_hub[mcp]>=0.32.0"
tiny-agents runThat's it. The MCP protocol handles all the tool integrations automatically - no custom APIs to write, no complex setups. Want file system access? It's already there. Need web browsing? Built in.
You can swap models, change inference providers, run local models, or add new tools just by editing a simple JSON config. You can also use Gradio Spaces as MCP servers! The entire agent is ~70 lines of Python - essentially a while loop that streams responses and executes tools. Everything is open-source. ❤️ Hugging Face
Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/python-tiny-agents
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Here’s what happens when a national institution builds its own digital intelligence: France’s Ministry of Culture just released 17K+ real users testing 30+ chatbots in French. Raw, diverse, and a goldmine for studying LLMs in the wild.
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Always surprised that so few people actually read the FineTasks blog, on
✨how to select training evals with the highest signal✨
If you're serious about training models without wasting compute on shitty runs, you absolutely should read it!!
An high signal eval actually tells you precisely, during training, how wel & what your model is learning, allowing you to discard the bad runs/bad samplings/...!
The blog covers in depth prompt choice, metrics, dataset, across languages/capabilities, and my fave section is "which properties should evals have"👌
(to know on your use case how to select the best evals for you)
Blog: HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fine-tasks
✨how to select training evals with the highest signal✨
If you're serious about training models without wasting compute on shitty runs, you absolutely should read it!!
An high signal eval actually tells you precisely, during training, how wel & what your model is learning, allowing you to discard the bad runs/bad samplings/...!
The blog covers in depth prompt choice, metrics, dataset, across languages/capabilities, and my fave section is "which properties should evals have"👌
(to know on your use case how to select the best evals for you)
Blog: HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fine-tasks
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SmolVLM is now available on PocketPal — you can run it offline on your smartphone to interpret the world around you. 🌍📱
And check out this real-time camera demo by @ngxson , powered by llama.cpp:
https://github.com/ngxson/smolvlm-realtime-webcam
https://x.com/pocketpal_ai
And check out this real-time camera demo by @ngxson , powered by llama.cpp:
https://github.com/ngxson/smolvlm-realtime-webcam
https://x.com/pocketpal_ai
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Tried something new: an AI-generated podcast that breaks down the top research paper each day. Fully automated, now live on Spotify.
I built this prototype to help keep up with the rapid pace of AI developments and, hopefully, make cutting-edge research more accessible. I don’t know about you, but just listening to a conversation about a paper really helps the content sink in for me.
This build taught me a lot about full automation. If you’re into the technical weeds: Qwen3 runs on Inference to handle the script, Kokoro does the voice, and the whole thing gets published automatically thanks to the Hugging Face Jobs API and Gradio deployment.
It’s not perfect yet — I’ll be monitoring for hallucinations and incoherence. The voice model still needs polish, but it’s a promising start. Would love to build this with the community — submit a PR or send feedback. It’s just a beta of an experimental idea!
Big kudos to @m-ric , whose Open NotebookLM this is based on, and to @nielsr for his terrific work making research papers more accessible.
- Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3PTucIW1w1GIkqTYm32ka7?si=c7a851f83e6d4331 (Apple Podcasts soon)
- Code: fdaudens/podcast-jobs
- Open NotebookLM: m-ric/open-notebooklm
- Also super helpful, @qgallouedec 's tutorial on HF Jobs API: qgallouedec/run-hello-world
I built this prototype to help keep up with the rapid pace of AI developments and, hopefully, make cutting-edge research more accessible. I don’t know about you, but just listening to a conversation about a paper really helps the content sink in for me.
This build taught me a lot about full automation. If you’re into the technical weeds: Qwen3 runs on Inference to handle the script, Kokoro does the voice, and the whole thing gets published automatically thanks to the Hugging Face Jobs API and Gradio deployment.
It’s not perfect yet — I’ll be monitoring for hallucinations and incoherence. The voice model still needs polish, but it’s a promising start. Would love to build this with the community — submit a PR or send feedback. It’s just a beta of an experimental idea!
Big kudos to @m-ric , whose Open NotebookLM this is based on, and to @nielsr for his terrific work making research papers more accessible.
- Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3PTucIW1w1GIkqTYm32ka7?si=c7a851f83e6d4331 (Apple Podcasts soon)
- Code: fdaudens/podcast-jobs
- Open NotebookLM: m-ric/open-notebooklm
- Also super helpful, @qgallouedec 's tutorial on HF Jobs API: qgallouedec/run-hello-world
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