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I hadn’t realized it until now, but could Microduck actually be the biggest launch of a new consumer robot ever? 10,500 robots ordered and $4.54M in sales in just 4 days. It’s surprisingly hard to fin

seems like it I hadn’t realized it until now, but could Microduck actually be the biggest launch of a new consumer robot ever? 10,500 robots ordered and $4.54M in sales in just 4 days. It’s surprising

Already ordered a cute graphite Microduck, from @pollenrobotics and @huggingface, and invested whole weekend trying to forsee some basic but key situations might happen once it arrives. -How to preven

Apparently the peak of ROBOTICS in 2026 is a 399 duck on roller skates. Microduck pre-orders topped 2.6M in 24 hours. Now there’s a 4–6 month backlog. Not a humanoid. Not a warehouse robot. A duck. Th

Over 4 petabytes of models and datasets have been uploaded to HF just last week by AI builders and their agents! That's the equivalent of ~800,000 HD movies. More than ever the storage and collaborati

People don't understand. You can create a rl env to teach it to find quarters. This will make money while you sleep. Media I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW MASSIVE THIS IS YET @HuggingFace and @Pollen

I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW MASSIVE THIS IS YET @HuggingFace and @PollenRobotics just released Microduck. It is a new legged robot for 399. It passed 1 million in sales in under SEVEN hours 🤯 The

i see a lot of posts about the openai <> hugging face incident and i think most of them miss one important element: this attack could have been avoided by simply doing CoT or network monitoring, which

People spent more than 2.5 million in 24 hours... On a robot duck. Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics put Microduck on sale at 399. It's ten inches tall and has fifteen motors. It waddles, it roller-ska

if you're not training your Microduck to breakdance, you're lost Media We have a huge news to share today! Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm tiny o

just had a quick look at microduck_rl the codebase is very elegant, i’d recommend reading the agent.md since it contains quite a few fun quirks for reward modeling like head tracking too tight impairs

In late August 2026, a post titled “すぐ Web で sim 遊べるのかｗ” highlighted the publicly‑available **microduck simulator** hosted on Hugging Face Spaces by Pollen Robotics (https://huggingface.co/spaces/poll

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick things up, get back up

Breaking News: The World’s FIRST Microducks football tournament! Only in SF. @ClementDelangue, @PollenRobotics, @Thom_Wolf, @huggingface Let’s make it happen… Media We have a huge news to share today!

CHRISTMAS IS HERE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick thin

I've always thought american robotics products took themselves too seriously. Glad to see huggingface take a page out of China's playbook here. No one actually needs something like this but it's so cu

The coolest part of Microduck might not be the robot. It's how it learns to move. This repo shows the full reinforcement learning pipeline behind Microduck. The robot learns in simulation using MuJoCo

Want to learn how robots actually learn? Start here. Hugging Face has a free Robotics Course that takes you from classical robotics to modern learning-based approaches. You will explore how robots lea

⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just 0.16/1M inp

Quick, accurate summaries make https://huggingface.co/papers an even better resource and more easily searchable by both people and LLMs. We're glad to see Inkling contributing! We use Inkling-Small to

On August 25 2026, Mia AI Lab announced that the Qwen‑3.8 Flash model would be released in 22 hours, noting it can run locally without a sleep restriction. The tweet includes a link to the Hugging Fac

Hi @GaryMarcus, I'm the Research Lead for this model. It's even more consequential than just Anthropic's IPO: This paper is a blueprint for how to *actually* build AI Sovereignty. https://tinyurl.com/

i’m seeing SO many US companies shift away from frontier models to open source in the last 4 weeks. cost and privacy are big factors but more so people are realising fine-tuning and training their own

There is a child with a rare disease who is currently suffering and struggling to manage his symptoms. Rare as this is, you can directly help him. Today we are launching the 'Rare Disease, Real Kid' H

Today we are launching the 'Rare Disease, Real Kid' Hackathon together with @sagebio in which you can literally save a life if you’re interested in AI and genome 🧬 (and incidentally win 50,000 in priz

'Two labs will soon control most of the world’s compute' Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother @dylan522p We went through lab economics over the next few years - the shift from inferenc

We officially surpassed 1M model downloads on @huggingface 🔥 Your 5 most downloaded models: 1. Qwen3.8 27B — 261K 2. Ling 3.0 flash — 158K 3. Ornith 1.5 35B A3B — 50K 4. Qwen3.5 4B DFlash — 49K 5. Gem

NEW: Thomson Reuters wanted to rely less on Claude. So it built its own AI model off Alibaba's Qwen. TR's CTO says using frontier labs for intelligence, instead of building on open source, is like ren

NVIDIA built its own coding harness to optimize CUDA GPU kernels and achieved a 100% score on ARC-AGI-3’s 25 public games, solving all 183 levels. With agents, we'll move from a world where it's quite

Harvey is a great example of how American companies are building world-class specialized models: they took an open-source base (Kimi K3), post-trained it on legal data, and delivered state-of-the-art

Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark. NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels across all 25 public environments, figuring out what to do with

Agree with @gdb that we need to arm cyber defenders much more than they are now, both with APIs and open models. The real cybersecurity risk of AI is asymmetry of power, capabilities and ressources be

On August 20 2026, Amir Efrati tweeted “open source AI is…happening? :) Anthropic & OpenAI better hope AT&T is the exception, not the rule.” He noted that open‑source AI advancements are underway whil

In 2018, Hugging Face publicly announced plans to develop a chatbot specifically for teenagers. By August 19, 2026, an update (tweet by Clement Delangue) reiterated that both Hugging Face and OpenAI w

Aloha! 🌺Introducing Ornith-1.5, a family of open-source LLMs spanning 9B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE, trained with self-improving strategies. It achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-sourc

Qwen 27B is the 'DeepSeek moment' for open source. It matches the closed-source state-of-the-art from just a few months ago and runs on an RTX 5090. Without exaggeration, it’s a game changer. let that

Something super exciting happened quietly on HF over the past month: AI agents became AI builders, and they did it in the open! During our ICML reproduction challenge, 1,221 humans teamed up with codi

We just released TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview. You can take a supported @huggingface model to end-to-end TensorRT inference in just two commands. No intermediate ONNX export, and the resul

Alibaba's open-weight AI models accumulated 3 billion global downloads in the past 6 months — more than Meta Llama, more than Google Gemma, more than every Chinese domestic competitor combined. The mo

You can literally run Opus 4.6 Max-level intelligence on a MacBook Pro. Locally. We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With

Local AI is exploding! Transformers.js, that we've been building @huggingface for the past three years has now become the most popular open-source library to run AI models directly in your browser and

We are in an insane run of open-weight drops. Every modality, open source is winning. This is what an open source AI summer ☀️ looks like: 🧠 LLMs & Reasoning → DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (my king 👑): 304B

🔗 Download Muse Glimmer on @huggingface: https://huggingface.co/meta-models 🔗 Read the technical blog: https://go.meta.me/museglimmer 🔗 Find resources: https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-glimme

Introducing Muse Glimmer, an open-weight 30B-parameter model optimized for local, always-on agent workflows. Muse Glimmer delivers strong performance on key agentic use cases and benchmarks compared w

Hugging Face is getting one new repository every seven seconds. That is roughly 12,000 new models and datasets a day, every day. Clem Delangue @ClementDelangue said it on stage at AMD's developer conf

Codex is overoptimised for large models: it ranks 2nd out of 10 for GLM 5.2 but drops to 9th place for Gemma-4! Almost all the effort in this field goes into tuning the weights. We wanted to know how