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Thomas Wolf
@thomwolf.bsky.social
Co-founder @huggingface
EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race

A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.

‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
September 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reachy-Mini update🚨

Good: quality up++, sound/elec better than alpha. First tiny batches ship late Sep.

Less good: scaling to thousands units (vs. 100s planned) taking longer than expected

Still on track to ship first 3000 pre-orders before Xmas🎄(Lite & Wireless), most shipping early Dec.
September 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
first test in plugging the $100 Amazing Hands on a (cute) humanoid instead of grippers - pretty happy about it

Hand: github.com/pollen-robot...

Humanoid: www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy/
September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
oh my god this is just crazy folks

github.com/huggingface/...
September 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
wow, total BoM cost $660, folks

open-source community >> closed source hyped robots

Read more at Xlerobot.readthedocs.io
September 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini

A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community.

Read more and order now at huggingface.co/blog/reachy-...
Your open-source companion - Reachy Mini
YouTube video by Pollen Robotics
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
very excited about this
July 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
London's robot conference is going crazy over it!

Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics

A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community.

=> discord.com/invite/jsvMR...
May 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We've seen nothing yet! We hosted a 9-13 yo vibe-coding event with @robertkeus.bsky.social this weekend (h/t
@antonosika.bsky.social and Lovable)

takeaway? AI is unleashing a generation of wildly creative builders beyond anything I'd have imagined

and they grow up knowing they can build anything!
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Low Tech AI!
May 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Reposted by Thomas Wolf
This is a really good blog post about how modern speech AI models work, highly recommended ⬇️ #MLSky
[Past weekends side project] A quick introduction to contextual speech models

I made some interactive visualisations to explain a bit better how recent contextual speech models and audio tokenization work (e.g. Sesame's demo).
April 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
[Past weekends side project] A quick introduction to contextual speech models

I made some interactive visualisations to explain a bit better how recent contextual speech models and audio tokenization work (e.g. Sesame's demo).
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
being in a robotics lab in 2025

open-source hardware + good RL + impressive people => lot of fun

join the OpenDuck community to build yours: discord.com/invite/UtJZs...
April 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you've followed the progress of robotics in the past 18 months, you've likely noticed how robotics is increasingly becoming the next frontier that AI will unlock.

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Hugging Face gets into the humanoid robot game with Pollen Robotics purchase
The acquisition will see Hugging Face, best known for open-source AI models, selling hardware for the first time
fortune.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Fascinating example of applied research!

No. 1 question we get with +1.5M models on the hub: how to find the best one for your use-case?

Here comes YourBench 🪄 a research work led by Sumuk Shashidhar, Alina Lozovskaya and team.

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April 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wow - open-source LLMs for code are so back

Just one week after the latest DeepSeek release, here is the All-Hands team dropping a 32B model with matching performance on software engineering tasks benchmarks (SWE-Bench). 20 times smaller than the DeepSeek model

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March 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We've kept pushing our Open-R1 project, an open initiative to replicate and extend the techniques behind DeepSeek-R1

And even we were mind-blown by the results we got with this latest model we're releasing: ⚡️OlympicCoder

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March 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub!

A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications.

Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca...

It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply

Go schools, go universities!
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century"

Here: thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

It's an extension of this interview discussion from the AI summit: youtu.be/AxBd3G0lFLs?...
March 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Oh! My TED talk is just out.

I talk about how open-source is critical for AI safety and humanity's resilience. Yes, you don't hear that perspective often! :)

It's called "What if AI just works"

It's here: www.ted.com/talks/thomas...
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A few words on DeepSeek new releases. Links are:
- github.com/deepseek-ai/...
- github.com/deepseek-ai/...
- github.com/deepseek-ai/...
and the Ultra-Scale Playbook at huggingface.co/spaces/nanot...
February 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Thomas Wolf
We’re just scratching the surface of the "big models + raw video + closed-loop sim" stack.

More to come! 🚀

Retweet if you’re excited, and follow @valeoai.bsky.social for updates! 💚

🙏 Thanks for reading!

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February 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hugging Face just entered the top 10 organizations on
@github.com

Close to 500,000 GitHub stars across our open-source libraries!

Couldn't be more proud of what this 220-person team is accomplishing
February 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Thomas Wolf
Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket applications is very difficult to get right in Python.

Until now - Introducing FastRTC, the realtime communication library for Python ⚡️

huggingface.co/blog/fastrtc
FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
After 6+ months in the making and over a year of GPU compute, we're excited to release the "Ultra-Scale Playbook": hf.co/spaces/nanot...

A book to learn all about 5D parallelism, ZeRO, CUDA kernels, how/why overlap compute & coms with theory, motivation, interactive plots and 4000+ experiments!
The Ultra-Scale Playbook - a Hugging Face Space by nanotron
The ultimate guide to training LLM on large GPU Clusters
hf.co
February 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM