Today, we introduce SmolVLA, a compact (450M), open-source Vision-Language-Action model for robotics that runs on consumer hardware. Pretrained only on compatibly licensed, open-source community-shared datasets under the lerobot tag. SmolVLA-450M outperforms much larger VLAs and strong baselines such as ACT on simulation (LIBERO, Meta-World) and real-world tasks (SO100, SO101). Supports asynchronous inference for 30% faster response and 2× task throughput. Useful links: 📚 Table of Contents

Today, at H Company, we are releasing Holo1, a family of Action Vision Language Models (VLMs) and WebClick, a new multimodal localization benchmark on the Hugging Face Hub. Surfer-H, a web-native    

By Michael Gamble, Partner & Ecosystem Lead, Arm As a software engineer and music producer, I’m always exploring how technology can expand creative expression. That curiosity recently led me to build a personal sound generation app    

We have implemented KV Caching from scratch in our nanoVLM repository (a small codebase to train your own Vision Language Model with pure PyTorch). This gave us a 38% speedup in generation. In this blog post we cover KV Caching and all our experiences while implementing it. The lessons learnt are general and can be applied to all autoregressive language model generations. Implementing from scratch on a small codebase is a great learning experience, come along for the ride!

Today at GTC Paris, we are excited to announce Training Cluster as a Service in collaboration with NVIDIA, to make large GPU clusters more easily accessible for research organizations all over the world, so they can train the foundational models of tomorrow in every domain. Making GPU Clusters Accessible Many Gigawatt-size GPU supercluster projects are being built to train the next gen of AI models. This can make it seem that the compute gap between the “GPU    

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (Generalist Robot 00 Technology) is a research and development platform for building robot foundation models and data pipelines, designed to accelerate the creation of intelligent, adaptable robots. Today, we announced the availability of Isaac GR00T N1.5, the first major update to Isaac GR00T N1, the world’s first open foundation model for generalized humanoid robot reasoning and skills. This cross-embodiment model processes multimodal inputs, including language and images, to perform manipulation tasks across diverse environments. It is adaptable […]

We’re thrilled to share that Featherless AI is now a supported Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub! Featherless AI joins our growing ecosystem, enhancing the breadth and capabilities of serverless inference directly on the Hub’s model pages. Inference Providers are also seamlessly integrated into our client SDKs (for both JS and Python), making it super easy to use a wide variety of models with your preferred providers. Featherless AI supports a wide variety of text and conversational models, including […]

Boost your model performance with pre-optimized kernels, easily loaded from the Hub. Today, we’ll explore an exciting development from Hugging Face: the Kernel Hub! As ML practitioners, we know that maximizing performance often involves diving deep into optimized code, custom CUDA kernels, or complex build systems. The Kernel Hub simplifies this process dramatically! Below is a short example of how to use a kernel in your code. import torch from kernels import get_kernel activation = get_kernel(“kernels-community/activation”) x = torch.randn((10, 10), […]

At TNG, we are self-hosting numerous Large Language Models on our cluster of 24 H100 GPUs. Serving LLMs for over 50 applications, thereby consuming more than 100 million tokens while generating over 10 millions tokens per day, requires us to carefully tune our request processing. In the previous part of our series on LLM performance, we looked into    

We’re thrilled to share that Groq is now a supported Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub! Groq joins our growing ecosystem, enhancing the breadth and capabilities of serverless inference directly on the Hub’s model pages. Inference Providers are also seamlessly integrated into our client SDKs (for both JS and Python), making it super easy to use a wide variety of models with your preferred providers. Groq supports a wide variety of text and conversational models, including the latest open-source […]