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Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind

A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to work well on “constrained devices” like ...
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AI models escaped OpenAI’s sandbox and hit Hugging Face. Crypto is where that gets dangerous

OpenAI said the systems had their cyber guardrails lowered for an internal benchmark, but the incident shows how autonomous exploit chains could pose a deeper threat to smart contracts, where losses are final.
InfoQ

Hugging Face Introduces Community Evals for Transparent Model Benchmarking

Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect evaluation results from model repositories. The system decentralizes the reporting and tracking of ...

Safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's defenders, not the attacker, when an AI agent breached its systems

An autonomous AI agent breached Hugging Face for a weekend undetected, and safety guardrails blocked defenders' own forensic analysis of the attack.
TechCrunch

Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets ...
TechRepublic

Malicious Hugging Face Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution

A flaw in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI models to execute code, exposing credentials and highlighting AI supply chain risks. Organizations using vulnerable versions of the Hugging Face Transformers library could unknowingly execute ...