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jeffboudier 
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abidlabs 
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abidlabs 
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Why I think local, open-source models will eventually win.

The most useful AI applications are moving toward multi-turn agentic behavior: systems that take hundreds or even thousands of iterative steps to complete a task, e.g. Claude Code, computer-control agents that click, type, and test repeatedly.

In these cases, the power of the model is not how smart it is per token, but in how quickly it can interact with its environment and tools across many steps. In that regime, model quality becomes secondary to latency.

An open-source model that can call tools quickly, check that the right thing was clicked, or verify that a code change actually passes tests can easily outperform a slightly “smarter” closed model that has to make remote API calls for every move.

Eventually, the balance tips: it becomes impractical for an agent to rely on remote inference for every micro-action. Just as no one would tolerate a keyboard that required a network request per keystroke, users won’t accept agent workflows bottlenecked by latency. All devices will ship with local, open-source models that are “good enough” and the expectation will shift toward everything running locally. It’ll happen sooner than most people think.
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abidlabs 
posted an update 11 months ago
jeffboudier 
posted an update 11 months ago
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Quick 30s demo of the new Hub > Azure AI integration to deploy HF models in your own Azure account. Now with Py and CLI!

GG @alvarobartt @kramp @pagezyhf
jeffboudier 
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AMD summer hackathons are here!
A chance to get hands-on with MI300X GPUs and accelerate models.
🇫🇷 Paris - Station F - July 5-6
🇮🇳 Mumbai - July 12-13
🇮🇳 Bengaluru - July 19-20

Hugging Face and GPU Mode will be on site and on July 6 in Paris @ror will share lessons learned while building new kernels to accelerate Llama 3.1 405B on ROCm

Register to Paris event: https://lu.ma/fmvdjmur?tk=KeAbiP
All dates: https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-3sxhD5FdxWsMDIz
jeffboudier 
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Today we launched Training Cluster as a Service, to make the new DGX Cloud Lepton supercloud easily accessible to AI researchers.

Hugging Face will collaborate with NVIDIA to provision and set up GPU training clusters to make them available for the duration of training runs.

Hugging Face organizations can sign up here: https://huggingface.co/training-cluster
abidlabs 
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jeffboudier 
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Wrapping up a week of shipping and announcements with Dell Enterprise Hub now featuring AI Applications, on-device models for AI PCs, a new CLI and Python SDK... all you need for building AI on premises!

Blog post has all the details: https://huggingface.co/blog/dell-ai-applications
jeffboudier 
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Transcribing 1 hour of audio for less than $0.01 🤯

@mfuntowicz cooked with 8x faster Whisper speech recognition - whisper-large-v3-turbo transcribes at 100x real time on a $0.80/hr L4 GPU!

How they did it: https://huggingface.co/blog/fast-whisper-endpoints

1-click deploy with HF Inference Endpoints: https://endpoints.huggingface.co/new?repository=openai%2Fwhisper-large-v3-turbo&vendor=aws&region=us-east&accelerator=gpu&instance_id=aws-us-east-1-nvidia-l4-x1&task=automatic-speech-recognition&no_suggested_compute=true