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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Aug 14

Want to build an AI Agent?

I made a free cookbook for creating your own news research agent with open-weight GPT-OSS models — no GPU, no setup.

Searches news → pulls articles → summarizes w/ sources → runs in a Gradio chat UI.

Check it out: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...

Gpt Oss News Agent - a Hugging Face Space by fdaudens

This application allows you to search for and summarize news articles. You can ask for general news, specific topics, or news from particular sites. The app will provide summaries and citations bas...

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Aug 11

GPT-OSS:
- 5M downloads in <1 week on @huggingface 🚀
- 400 new models
- lready outpacing DeepSeek R1’s launch numbers, and that’s without counting inference calls
- also the most-liked release of any major LLM this summer

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Aug 7

You can run gpt-oss-20B on Google Colab 🤯

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Aug 5

Well, it took just 2 hours for GPT-OSS to hit #1 on @hf.co. Don’t remember seeing anything rise that fast!

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 18

Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
Blog post from the team working on this: huggingface.co/blog/manu/co...

AudioRag Demo - a Hugging Face Space by fdaudens

Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 18

AudioRAG is becoming real! Just built a demo with ColQwen-Omni that does semantic search on raw audio, no transcription needed.

What’s exciting: it skips transcription, making it faster and better at capturing emotion, ambient sound, and tone, surfacing results text search would miss.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

⚠️ AI isn’t just a tool—it’s also supercharging medical misinformation. From fake studies to hallucinated citations, the risks are real when governments and charlatans lean on unchecked AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Medical charlatans have existed through history. But AI has turbocharged them | Edna Bonhomme

For centuries medical charlatans were individuals selling products in a public square. Now we have the staggering, dangerous power of AI, says Edna Bonhomme, a historian of science

www.theguardian.com

Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤖 On the farm, AI is running the show: self-driving tractors, robot fruit pickers, and drones are making “hands-off” farming real. The future of food? More tech, less sweat. www.wsj.com/tech/autonom...

Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm

New technologies are paving the way for farms that can run themselves, with minimal human input

www.wsj.com

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧠 Nearly 3/4 of teens are turning to AI companions for advice, friendship, and comfort. The upside? New connections. The risk? Losing touch with real-world relationships. Wild times for growing up. www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/h...

Kids are asking AI companions to solve their problems, according to a new study. Here’s why that’s a problem | CNN

Nearly three-quarters of teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly, new research finds. Moreover, one-third turn to chatbots for social interactions.

www.cnn.com

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

💰 Ex-OpenAI stars just raised a jaw-dropping $2B for Thinking Machines Lab. The AI talent wars are heating up, and the next breakthrough might come from this stealthy new contender. www.wired.com/story/thinki...

Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders

Mira Murati and several other former OpenAI researchers are behind the buzzy AI startup, now valued at $12 billion and officially out of stealth.

www.wired.com

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤝 Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang is walking a tightrope in Beijing, balancing US-China tech rivalry while keeping Nvidia at the heart of the AI revolution. The stakes? Trillions and global influence. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/b...

Nvidia C.E.O. Treads Carefully in Beijing

www.nytimes.com

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

Today’s reads: Nvidia’s CEO navigating US-China tensions, a $2B AI upstart, and why so many teens are confiding in chatbots.

Here’s what I found most interesting 👇

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 16

The best part? It's only a 2.2B model! huggingface.co/HuggingFaceT...

more info here: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2

and more modelshttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-text-to-text

HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

You might not have heard of Moonshot AI, but within 24 hours, their Kimi K2 model shot to the top of the Hugging Face trending models. So… who are they, and why does this matter?
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...

5 Things You Need to Know About Moonshot AI and Kimi K2, the New #1 model on the Hub

A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

AI-powered browsers like Perplexity’s Comet promise to do your web surfing for you. But do they really save time, or just add more noise? 🌐 www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

AI-powered web browsers want to help people save time. But are they effective?

Perplexity AI’s browser, Comet, which launched last week, aims to help people accomplish their tasks without having to do the work of actually browsing.

www.nbcnews.com

Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

Google just inked a $3B deal for hydro power to run its AI data centers. Big Tech is scrambling for clean, reliable energy as AI’s appetite explodes. ⚡ www.ft.com/content/d8be...

Google and Brookfield strike $3bn hydro power deal

Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence

www.ft.com

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

Cognition (the Devin AI agent crew) snapped up Windsurf, a fast-growing AI coding startup. The battle for AI developer tools is getting fierce. 💻 techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c...

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf | TechCrunch

Cognition is acquiring Windsurf days after Google DeepMind hired its CEO and research leaders, and months after OpenAI offered to buy it.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

Nvidia just got the OK to sell AI chips to China after its CEO met Trump. Tech, trade, and geopolitics: all on the table. www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-...

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

Meta’s superintelligence lab is debating ditching open-source AI for a closed model www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

+ is dropping hundreds of billions on giant AI data centers www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes

www.nytimes.com

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 15

Today’s headlines are all about AI power plays: Meta’s open-source future is on the line, Big Tech is pouring billions into data centers and energy, and the AI talent wars just hit a new level.

Let’s dive into the 5 most important stories of the day 👇

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 12

Kimi K2 just hit #1 on @hf.co trending models in <24 hours!

This MoE powerhouse packs 1T params with 32B active - crushing coding challenges and autonomous agent tasks.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 8

🧑‍💻 Want to try it? SmolLM3 is fully open-source, with all training recipes and code released. Jump in, run it locally, and see how far a smol model can go! huggingface.co/blog/smollm3

SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 8

🤖 Dual-mode genius: Switch between fast answers or deep reasoning with simple flags (/think or /no_think). Plus, it supports tool calling for agentic workflows.

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 8

🌍 Multilingual: SmolLM3 supports 6 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) and shines across knowledge, reasoning, math, and coding benchmarks. Small but mighty!

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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Jul 8

🛠️ Under the hood: SmolLM3 uses a transformer decoder with Grouped Query Attention, NoPE for long context, and clever training tweaks for rock-solid stability—handling up to 128k context length with ease!

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