Florent Daudens
@fdaudens.bsky.social
Passionate about AI & Journalism / Previously @hf.co @radiocanadainfo @ledevoir & others
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...
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...
huggingface.co
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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...
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:
- 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
- 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
August 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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
- 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
You can run gpt-oss-20B on Google Colab 🤯
August 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
You can run gpt-oss-20B on Google Colab 🤯
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.
What’s exciting: it skips transcription, making it faster and better at capturing emotion, ambient sound, and tone, surfacing results text search would miss.
July 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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.
What’s exciting: it skips transcription, making it faster and better at capturing emotion, ambient sound, and tone, surfacing results text search would miss.
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 👇
Here’s what I found most interesting 👇
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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 👇
Here’s what I found most interesting 👇
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...
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
huggingface.co
July 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
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 👇
Let’s dive into the 5 most important stories of the day 👇
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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 👇
Let’s dive into the 5 most important stories of the day 👇
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.
This MoE powerhouse packs 1T params with 32B active - crushing coding challenges and autonomous agent tasks.
July 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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.
This MoE powerhouse packs 1T params with 32B active - crushing coding challenges and autonomous agent tasks.
🚀 Meet SmolLM3: a 3B parameter language model that punches above its weight, and comes with the *full* engineering blueprint!
July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚀 Meet SmolLM3: a 3B parameter language model that punches above its weight, and comes with the *full* engineering blueprint!
AI is flipping the entire information ecosystem upside down. Had a chat with @petepachal.bsky.social about what this means for journalism: mediacopilot.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the AI newsroom: Florent Daudens on building tools journalists actually want
Hugging Face’s media liaison talks trust, tech, and why the next great newsroom might look more like a dev team.
mediacopilot.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
AI is flipping the entire information ecosystem upside down. Had a chat with @petepachal.bsky.social about what this means for journalism: mediacopilot.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Teaching data literacy to kids using 🤗 tools? This warm piece shows how to use AI Sheets for fun projects.
Love seeing HF used for the next generation. 🌱👩💻👦💻
huggingface.co/blog/ParulPa...
Love seeing HF used for the next generation. 🌱👩💻👦💻
huggingface.co/blog/ParulPa...
Teaching Data Literacy with Hugging Face's AI Sheets
A Blog post by Parul Pandey on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
June 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Teaching data literacy to kids using 🤗 tools? This warm piece shows how to use AI Sheets for fun projects.
Love seeing HF used for the next generation. 🌱👩💻👦💻
huggingface.co/blog/ParulPa...
Love seeing HF used for the next generation. 🌱👩💻👦💻
huggingface.co/blog/ParulPa...
The Economist gets it: you want quick hits during the week, deep dives on weekends.
Their app redesign now surfaces short stories & “The World in Brief” on weekdays, then shifts to longer reads & analysis for weekend browsing. Smart
www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...
Their app redesign now surfaces short stories & “The World in Brief” on weekdays, then shifts to longer reads & analysis for weekend browsing. Smart
www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...
The Economist redesigns its app to promote short stories on weekdays and longer reads on weekends
In an attempt to retain subscribers, The Economist is also trying to help readers find stories more easily and quickly.
www.niemanlab.org
June 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Economist gets it: you want quick hits during the week, deep dives on weekends.
Their app redesign now surfaces short stories & “The World in Brief” on weekdays, then shifts to longer reads & analysis for weekend browsing. Smart
www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...
Their app redesign now surfaces short stories & “The World in Brief” on weekdays, then shifts to longer reads & analysis for weekend browsing. Smart
www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-...
Three big AI copyright updates this week alone. Tracking it all is getting almost impossible!
That’s why @brigittetousi.hf.co and I built this interactive tracker to keep you up to date: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
(Prototyped in minutes with DeepSite!)
That’s why @brigittetousi.hf.co and I built this interactive tracker to keep you up to date: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
(Prototyped in minutes with DeepSite!)
June 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Three big AI copyright updates this week alone. Tracking it all is getting almost impossible!
That’s why @brigittetousi.hf.co and I built this interactive tracker to keep you up to date: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
(Prototyped in minutes with DeepSite!)
That’s why @brigittetousi.hf.co and I built this interactive tracker to keep you up to date: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
(Prototyped in minutes with DeepSite!)
Gemma 3n just dropped - a natively multimodal model that runs entirely on your device. No cloud. No API calls.
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
June 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Gemma 3n just dropped - a natively multimodal model that runs entirely on your device. No cloud. No API calls.
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
🧠 Text, image, audio, and video
⚡️Only needs 2B in GPU memory to run
🤯 First sub-10B model to hit 1300+ Elo
✅ Plug-and-play with Hugging Face, MLX, llama.cpp...
First major AI copyright ruling drops:
✅ Training AI on bought content = LEGAL
❌ Training on pirated content = potential $5B+ lawsuit
The court: AI learning is "like any reader aspiring to be a writer"
This precedent will shape dozens of pending AI cases. huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
✅ Training AI on bought content = LEGAL
❌ Training on pirated content = potential $5B+ lawsuit
The court: AI learning is "like any reader aspiring to be a writer"
This precedent will shape dozens of pending AI cases. huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
The Anthropic Ruling: Why AI Training Just Got Legal (But Piracy Didn't)
A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
June 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
First major AI copyright ruling drops:
✅ Training AI on bought content = LEGAL
❌ Training on pirated content = potential $5B+ lawsuit
The court: AI learning is "like any reader aspiring to be a writer"
This precedent will shape dozens of pending AI cases. huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
✅ Training AI on bought content = LEGAL
❌ Training on pirated content = potential $5B+ lawsuit
The court: AI learning is "like any reader aspiring to be a writer"
This precedent will shape dozens of pending AI cases. huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
ASMR Shiba has something to say 🐾
June 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
ASMR Shiba has something to say 🐾
Just tested AI Sheets on a 1K dataset to extract content—didn’t disappoint!
June 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just tested AI Sheets on a 1K dataset to extract content—didn’t disappoint!
Fascinating discussion in the FT btw @mmitchell.bsky.social and @melissahei.bsky.social about AGI: "AGI as a whole is just a super problematic concept that provides an air of objectivity and positivity, when, in fact, it’s opening the door for technologists to just do whatever they want."
June 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Fascinating discussion in the FT btw @mmitchell.bsky.social and @melissahei.bsky.social about AGI: "AGI as a whole is just a super problematic concept that provides an air of objectivity and positivity, when, in fact, it’s opening the door for technologists to just do whatever they want."
Sweeeeet: big MCP update just landed:
– Tools can now return structured outputs, not just plain text
– Servers can ask users for more info mid-interaction (aka elicitation)
– Tools can now return structured outputs, not just plain text
– Servers can ask users for more info mid-interaction (aka elicitation)
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sweeeeet: big MCP update just landed:
– Tools can now return structured outputs, not just plain text
– Servers can ask users for more info mid-interaction (aka elicitation)
– Tools can now return structured outputs, not just plain text
– Servers can ask users for more info mid-interaction (aka elicitation)
Less than 1 hour left to vote for your favorite LeRobot hackathon project—and oof, it’s a tight race!! 🗳️🤖 Get your vote in
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Less than 1 hour left to vote for your favorite LeRobot hackathon project—and oof, it’s a tight race!! 🗳️🤖 Get your vote in
Being rude is better for the planet. At least with AI 😆
June 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Being rude is better for the planet. At least with AI 😆
The sycophancy problem in one line, courtesy of @giadapistilli.com
Really interesting piece by @melissahei.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/72aa...
Really interesting piece by @melissahei.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/72aa...
June 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The sycophancy problem in one line, courtesy of @giadapistilli.com
Really interesting piece by @melissahei.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/72aa...
Really interesting piece by @melissahei.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/72aa...
This graph www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog... h/t @anabellenicoud.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This graph www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog... h/t @anabellenicoud.bsky.social
MCP just hit a tipping point:
- @hf.co made it dead simple: just type "hf.co/mcp" in your chat. No JSON wrestling, no config files.
- Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all adopted it as their standard.
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
- @hf.co made it dead simple: just type "hf.co/mcp" in your chat. No JSON wrestling, no config files.
- Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all adopted it as their standard.
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
MCP is at a Tipping Point: Here's Why You Should Care
A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
June 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
MCP just hit a tipping point:
- @hf.co made it dead simple: just type "hf.co/mcp" in your chat. No JSON wrestling, no config files.
- Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all adopted it as their standard.
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...
- @hf.co made it dead simple: just type "hf.co/mcp" in your chat. No JSON wrestling, no config files.
- Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all adopted it as their standard.
huggingface.co/blog/fdauden...