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giadapย  authored a paper 14 days ago
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Ethics and Environmental Sustainability in AI Research and Practice
sashaย  authored a paper 22 days ago
Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
evijitย  authored a paper 22 days ago
Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
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clemย 
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You can now bill your inference costs from all our inference partners (together, fireworks, fal, sambanova, cerebras, hyperbolic,...) to your Hugging Face organization.

Useful to drive more company-wide usage of AI without the billing headaches!
yjerniteย 
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Today in Privacy & AI Tooling - introducing a nifty new tool to examine where data goes in open-source apps on ๐Ÿค—

HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ”

That requires actually reading the code though, which isn't always easy or quick! Good news: code LMs have gotten pretty good at automatic review, so we can offload some of the work - here I'm using Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct to generate reports and it works pretty OK ๐Ÿ™Œ

The app works in three stages:
1. Download all code files
2. Use the Code LM to generate a detailed report pointing to code where data is transferred/(AI-)processed (screen 1)
3. Summarize the app's main functionality and data journeys (screen 2)
4. Build a Privacy TLDR with those inputs

It comes with a bunch of pre-reviewed apps/Spaces, great to see how many process data locally or through (private) HF endpoints ๐Ÿค—

Note that this is a POC, lots of exciting work to do to make it more robust, so:
- try it: yjernite/space-privacy
- reach out to collab: yjernite/space-privacy
BrigitteTousiย 
posted an update 9 days ago
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AI agents are transforming how we interact with technology, but how sustainable are they? ๐ŸŒ

Design choices โ€” like model size and structure โ€” can massively impact energy use and cost. โšก๐Ÿ’ฐ The key takeaway: smaller, task-specific models can be far more efficient than large, general-purpose ones.

๐Ÿ”‘ Open-source models offer greater transparency, allowing us to track energy consumption and make more informed decisions on deployment. ๐ŸŒฑ Open-source = more efficient, eco-friendly, and accountable AI.

Read our latest, led by @sasha with assists from myself + @yjernite ๐Ÿค—
https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-agent-sustainability
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clemย 
posted an update 11 days ago
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Llama 4 is in transformers!

Fun example using the instruction-tuned Maverick model responding about two images, using tensor parallel for maximum speed.

From https://huggingface.co/blog/llama4-release
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clemย 
posted an update 13 days ago
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Llama models (arguably the most successful open AI models of all times) just represented 3% of total model downloads on Hugging Face in March.

People and media like stories of winner takes all & one model/company to rule them all but the reality is much more nuanced than this!

Kudos to all the small AI builders out there!
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clemย 
posted an update 14 days ago
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Now in Enterprise Hub organizations, you can centralize your billing not only for HF usage but also inference through our inference partners.

Will prevent some headaches for your finance & accounting teams haha (so feel free to share that with them).
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giadapย 
authored a paper 14 days ago
clemย 
posted an update 16 days ago
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Before 2020, most of the AI field was open and collaborative. For me, that was the key factor that accelerated scientific progress and made the impossible possibleโ€”just look at the โ€œTโ€ in ChatGPT, which comes from the Transformer architecture openly shared by Google.

Then came the myth that AI was too dangerous to share, and companies started optimizing for short-term revenue. That led many major AI labs and researchers to stop sharing and collaborating.

With OAI and sama now saying they're willing to share open weights again, we have a real chance to return to a golden age of AI progress and democratizationโ€”powered by openness and collaboration, in the US and around the world.

This is incredibly exciting. Letโ€™s go, open science and open-source AI!
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clemย 
posted an update 19 days ago
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What's this cool purple banner haha ๐Ÿ˜ถ๐Ÿ˜ถ๐Ÿ˜ถ
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clemย 
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giadapย 
posted an update 21 days ago
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We've all become experts at clicking "I agree" without a second thought. In my latest blog post, I explore why these traditional consent models are increasingly problematic in the age of generative AI.

I found three fundamental challenges:
- Scope problem: how can you know what you're agreeing to when AI could use your data in different ways?
- Temporality problem: once an AI system learns from your data, good luck trying to make it "unlearn" it.
- Autonomy trap: the data you share today could create systems that pigeonhole you tomorrow.

Individual users shouldn't bear all the responsibility, while big tech holds all the cards. We need better approaches to level the playing field, from collective advocacy and stronger technological safeguards to establishing "data fiduciaries" with a legal duty to protect our digital interests.

Available here: https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/beyond-consent
sashaย 
authored a paper 22 days ago
evijitย 
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clemย 
posted an update 27 days ago
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Should we assemble affordable open-source robots at Hugging Face for the community. Would you buy them? At what price?
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clemย 
posted an update 28 days ago
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Nice new space to see how fast your personal or organization followers are growing on HF:
julien-c/follow-history

As you can see, I still have more followers than @julien-c even if he's trying to change this by building such cool spaces ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
clemย 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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We just crossed 1,500,000 public models on Hugging Face (and 500k spaces, 330k datasets, 50k papers). One new repository is created every 15 seconds. Congratulations all!
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BrigitteTousiย 
posted an update about 1 month ago
BrigitteTousiย 
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Regardless of X being down or not, so glad I can rely on HF Posts for AI news โค๏ธ๐Ÿค—
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