Florent Daudens
@fdaudens.bsky.social
Passionate about AI & Journalism / Previously @hf.co @radiocanadainfo @ledevoir & others
Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
Blog post from the team working on this: huggingface.co/blog/manu/co...
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
huggingface.co
July 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/fdaud...
Blog post from the team working on this: huggingface.co/blog/manu/co...
Blog post from the team working on this: huggingface.co/blog/manu/co...
⚠️ 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
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
⚠️ 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...
🤖 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
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🤖 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...
🧠 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
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🧠 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...
💰 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
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
💰 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...
🤝 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
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🤝 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...
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
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.
huggingface.co
July 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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
more info here: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2
and more modelshttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-text-to-text
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
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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.
techcrunch.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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-...
www.wsj.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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-...
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...
+ 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
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
+ is dropping hundreds of billions on giant AI data centers www.bbc.com/news/article...
🧑💻 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.
huggingface.co
July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🧑💻 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
🤖 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.
July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🤖 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.
🌍 Multilingual: SmolLM3 supports 6 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) and shines across knowledge, reasoning, math, and coding benchmarks. Small but mighty!
July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🌍 Multilingual: SmolLM3 supports 6 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) and shines across knowledge, reasoning, math, and coding benchmarks. Small but mighty!
🛠️ 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!
July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🛠️ 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!