- At Alibaba Cloud Summit, Qwen dropped at least 7 new series of models. ( some are not open sourced ) - Since June, Tencent has doubled down on open source, especially after Hunyuan gained traction
✨ Some of the community’s hottest models come from startups.
- Kimi K2-0905 - GLM v4.6 -OpenBMB MiniCPM 4.1
✨ New players are pushing hard!
- Baidu ERNIE & Qianfan: enterprise-ready focus - Ant Group: MoE + low-activation; from small to trillion, from core to reasoning fast track - Xiaomi MiMo: stands out with Any-to-Any audio models
✨ Robotics is joining the open-source wave
- Unitree released its first open-source model - BAAI launched RoboBrain-X0, an open-source robotics model + dataset
👀 Each month brings cooler models. After the 8-day National Holiday, expect another wave before the end of the year.
Want to deploy open models using vLLM as the inference engine? We just released a step-by-step guide on how to do it with @huggingface Inference Endpoints, now available in the vLLM docs.
One of the hardest challenges in AI safety is finding the right balance: how do we protect people from harm without undermining their agency? This tension is especially visible in conversational systems, where safeguards can sometimes feel more paternalistic than supportive.
In my latest piece for Hugging Face, I argue that open source and community-driven approaches offer a promising (though not exclusive) way forward.
✨ Transparency can make safety mechanisms into learning opportunities. ✨ Collaboration with diverse communities makes safeguards more relevant across contexts. ✨ Iteration in the open lets protections evolve rather than freeze into rigid, one-size-fits-all rules.
Of course, this isn’t a silver bullet. Top-down safety measures will still be necessary in some cases. But if we only rely on corporate control, we risk building systems that are safe at the expense of trust and autonomy.
✨ 0.6B/4B/8B - Apache2.0 ✨ Two variants: Gen & Steam ✨ Trained on a dataset of 1.19 million prompts ✨ Classifies content into Safe / Unsafe / Controversial ✨ Supports 119 languages & dialects