Transformers.js v4 Ships WebGPU Runtime for Browser ML
HuggingFace's Transformers.js v4 rewrites its WebGPU runtime in C++, supports 200+ architectures, and delivers up to 4x faster inference in browsers and server-side JS runtimes.
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Meta SAM 3.1 - 7x Faster Multi-Object Video Tracking
Meta releases SAM 3.1 with Object Multiplex, processing all tracked objects in one shared pass for 7x faster inference at 128 objects and improvements on 6 of 7 VOS benchmarks.
Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Tops ASR Leaderboard
Cohere releases its first audio model - a 2B-parameter open-source ASR system beating Whisper Large v3 by 27% on the HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard.
USCC: China's Open-Source AI Now Runs 80% of US Startups
A new USCC report finds Chinese open-source models now dominate US AI startup stacks, with Qwen surpassing Llama in global downloads and Chinese models taking 41% of all Hugging Face downloads.
Italian-Legal-BERT
Italian-Legal-BERT is a 110M-parameter domain-adapted BERT model for Italian legal NLP, trained on 3.7GB of court decisions from Italy's National Jurisprudential Archive.
Italian-Legal-BERT Brings Domain-Specific NLP to Italian Law
Researchers at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa built Italian-Legal-BERT, a 110M-parameter model trained on 3.7GB of Italian court decisions that outperforms general Italian BERT on legal NLP tasks.
16 Open-Source RL Libraries, One Shared GPU Bottleneck
A Hugging Face survey of 16 open-source reinforcement learning libraries finds the entire ecosystem has converged on async disaggregated training to fix a single brutal bottleneck: GPU idle time during long rollouts.
LeRobot v0.5.0: First Humanoid, 10x Training Speed
Hugging Face ships its largest LeRobot update yet: Unitree G1 humanoid support, Pi0-FAST VLA, Real-Time Chunking, 10x faster image training, and PEFT/LoRA fine-tuning for large robot policies.
Hugging Face Launches Storage Buckets for ML Artifacts
Hugging Face introduced Storage Buckets, mutable S3-like object storage built on Xet deduplication for ML checkpoints, logs, and artifacts - starting at $8/TB/month at volume.
NVIDIA's Alpamayo Hits 100K Downloads to Become Hugging Face's Top Robotics Model
Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter vision-language-action model that explains its own driving decisions, has become the most downloaded robotics model on Hugging Face - less than two months after its CES 2026 debut.
Hugging Face Absorbs llama.cpp Creator in Bid to Own the Local AI Stack
Georgi Gerganov's ggml.ai joins Hugging Face, bringing the most important local inference project under the $13.5 billion AI platform's umbrella.
llama.cpp Creator Joins Hugging Face, Cementing the Open-Source AI Inference Stack
Georgi Gerganov and the ggml.ai team behind llama.cpp are joining Hugging Face. The deal unifies model hosting, model definition, and local inference under one open-source roof.
