Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a 25-centimeter-tall duck-like robot that sells for $399 and ships before Christmas. CEO Clem Delangue described it as an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning,” in a post on X. The robot can waddle, pick up objects up to 800 grams with its beak, […]
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform that has become a central hub for open-source AI development, is reportedly in talks to be acquired at a valuation of $13 billion or more. Business Insider reported over the weekend that the company has been approached with acquisition offers, although no deal has been reached and the potential […]
LAS VEGAS — At the Ai4 conference last week, three of AI’s most influential figures — Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li, and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng — took the stage to confront a question that has split the industry: should the most powerful AI models be freely available, or kept under […]
The Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), the industry group spearheaded by Nvidia just over a week ago, has already grown to more than 120 companies and released its first formal proposals for public comment — a pace that reflects both the urgency of AI security concerns and the group’s stated commitment to “AI speed.” The […]
On Monday, Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang published a provocative theory arguing that open-source AI models are not actually competing with frontier labs like Anthropic — they are serving a different phase of the same lifecycle. Zhang’s post, titled “Everyone is wrong about open source AI in the enterprise,” suggests that as enterprise deployments mature, they […]
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