Introduction
Running a small language model locally is straightforward. Running one productively — inside a real development workflow, with proper context, tool access, and iteration speed — is a different problem entirely.
The gap between "I got a model responding in my terminal" and "I have a local AI setup that actually improves how I…
Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
Most robotics launches ask you to trust a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, is instead shipping the training loop. This week it opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robot in which every movement — walking, sitting, kicking, roller-skating, standing back up after a fall — is a…
Today, we’re introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to support developers. Gemini Omni brought real-world reasoning to generative creation, and today’s updates make Omni 1.1 production-ready for professional use via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. Whether you’re building generative video workflows, creative tools, or…
Every day, your organization produces a mountain of words. Support tickets, contracts, clinical notes, customer reviews, emails, call transcripts. Roughly 80% of all enterprise data exists as unstructured text like this — and until recently, almost none of it could be analyzed at scale. It just sat there. Natural Language Processing changed that. And in 2026, with large…
Muse Glimmer is gaining attention in the local AI community and is being compared with Qwen's 27B-class models. In many cases, it is performing better, especially for local coding and agentic workflows.
Meta looks strong in the open-model space, and with a few more iterations, models like this could start competing closely with proprietary systems.…
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded structure convincingly, yet PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, ReMOVE and CFD frequently rank their outputs the wrong way. The root cause is structural: erasure is an ill-posed, one-to-many task, so no single ground truth exists to…
Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 12B, our latest model designed to bring agentic multimodal intelligence directly to laptops. Bridging the gap between our edge-friendly E4B and our more advanced 26B Mixture of Experts (MoE), Gemma 4 12B packages powerful capabilities inside a reduced memory footprint. It is also our first mid-sized model to feature…
An operating system (OS) is the fundamental software that acts as an intermediary between computer hardware and user applications. It manages hardware resources such as the CPU, memory, storage, and input/output devices, while providing essential services like process scheduling, file management, security, and user interfaces. Without an OS, users would need to interact directly with…
Running a capable 27B model as a local AI coding agent used to mean setting up inference servers, configuring endpoints, and connecting everything manually. With Qwen3.8-27B, Ollama, and OpenCode, the process is now remarkably straightforward.
Qwen3.8-27B is one of the local models I have been most excited to try. It is strong at coding, reasoning,…
import os, sys, io, json, time, math, re, subprocess, warnings
from collections import Counter, defaultdict
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
os.environ.setdefault("USE_TORCH", "1")
def _pip(*pkgs):
subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q", *pkgs], check=False)
try:
import doctr
except ImportError:
print(">> Installing python-doctr (this takes ~1-2 min on Colab)...")
_pip("python-doctr[viz]")
try:
import reportlab
except ImportError:
_pip("reportlab")
import numpy as np
import…