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cgeorgiaw 
posted an update 5 months ago
abidlabs 
posted an update 6 months ago
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Why I think local, open-source models will eventually win.

The most useful AI applications are moving toward multi-turn agentic behavior: systems that take hundreds or even thousands of iterative steps to complete a task, e.g. Claude Code, computer-control agents that click, type, and test repeatedly.

In these cases, the power of the model is not how smart it is per token, but in how quickly it can interact with its environment and tools across many steps. In that regime, model quality becomes secondary to latency.

An open-source model that can call tools quickly, check that the right thing was clicked, or verify that a code change actually passes tests can easily outperform a slightly “smarter” closed model that has to make remote API calls for every move.

Eventually, the balance tips: it becomes impractical for an agent to rely on remote inference for every micro-action. Just as no one would tolerate a keyboard that required a network request per keystroke, users won’t accept agent workflows bottlenecked by latency. All devices will ship with local, open-source models that are “good enough” and the expectation will shift toward everything running locally. It’ll happen sooner than most people think.
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merve 
posted an update 6 months ago
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is out! 🔥 my take ⤵️
> pretty insane it can parse and re-render charts in HTML
> it uses CLIP and SAM features concatenated, so better grounding
> very efficient per vision tokens/performance ratio
> covers 100 languages
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abidlabs 
posted an update 7 months ago
merve 
posted an update 7 months ago
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large AI labs open-sourced a ton of models last week 🔥
here's few picks, find even more here merve/sep-16-releases-68d13ea4c547f02f95842f05 🤝
> IBM released a new Docling model with 258M params based on Granite (A2.0) 📝 ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M
> Xiaomi released 7B audio LM with base and instruct variants (MIT) XiaomiMiMo/mimo-audio-68cc7202692c27dae881cce0
> DecartAI released Lucy Edit, open Nano Banana 🍌 (NC) decart-ai/Lucy-Edit-Dev
> OpenGVLab released a family of agentic computer use models (3B/7B/32B) with the dataset 💻 OpenGVLab/scalecua-68c912cf56f7ff4c8e034003
> Meituan Longcat released thinking version of LongCat-Flash 💭 meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Thinking
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merve 
posted an update 7 months ago
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IBM just released small swiss army knife for the document models: granite-docling-258M on Hugging Face 🔥

> not only a document converter but also can do document question answering, understand multiple languages 🤯
> best part: released with Apache 2.0 license 👏 use it with your commercial projects!
> it supports transformers, vLLM and MLX from the get-go! 🤗
> built on SigLIP2 & granite-165M

model: ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M
demo: ibm-granite/granite-docling-258m-demo 💗
merve 
posted an update 7 months ago
merve 
posted an update 7 months ago
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fan-favorite vision LM Florence-2 is now officially supported in transformers 🤗

find all the models in
florence-community
org 🫡
merve 
posted an update 7 months ago
merve 
posted an update 7 months ago
cgeorgiaw 
posted an update 8 months ago
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🚀🚀🚀 The largest ever dataset of co-folded 3D protein-ligand structures just dropped on HF!!

Meet SAIR (Structurally Augmented IC₅₀ Repository): 5M+ AI-generated complexes with experimentally measured drug potency data from SandboxAQ. 🚀🚀🚀

Check it out and explore here: SandboxAQ/SAIR

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merve 
posted an update 8 months ago
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large AI labs have dropped so many open models last week 🔥 don't miss out on them

→ Apple released on-device vision LMs apple/fastvlm-68ac97b9cd5cacefdd04872e & apple/mobileclip2-68ac947dcb035c54bcd20c47
→ OpenGVLab released InternVL3.5, 32 new vision LMs with one based on gpt-oss! (OS) OpenGVLab/internvl35-68ac87bd52ebe953485927fb
→ MSFT released a killer small TTS model (OS) microsoft/VibeVoice-1.5B

find more herehttps://huggingface.co/collections/merve/august-29-releases-68b5a3754cfb8abf59e2b486
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merve 
posted an update 8 months ago