Microsoft’s recent Azure Open Source Day showed off a new reference application built using cloud-native tools and services, with a focus on Microsoft’s own open source tools. The app was built to be ...

A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are ...

Google and Hugging Face have announced a strategic partnership aimed at advancing open AI and machine learning development. This collaboration will integrate Hugging Face's platform with Google ...

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Apple has contributed 20 new Core Machine Learning models to an open source AI repository Hugging Face, adding to its existing public models and research papers. In April 2024, Apple publicly shared a ...

China’s open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.” However, they have also attracted criticism — including ...

Late last month, Facebook parent Meta unveiled Llama 3.1, the world's largest open-source model. With 405 billion parameters, it's so big that even model libraries like Hugging Face need to scale up ...

In a new case study, Hugging Face researchers have demonstrated how small language models (SLMs) can be configured to outperform much larger models. Their findings show that a Llama 3 model with 3B ...

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It's not news to anyone that there are concerns about AI’s rising energy bill. But a new analysis shows the latest reasoning models are substantially more energy intensive than previous generations, ...