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Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device

Hugging Face BlogApr 2, 2026

Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device

Google released Gemma 4 — their latest open-weight model family with frontier multimodal capabilities designed to run on-device. Gemma 4 brings vision understanding, multilingual support, and significantly improved reasoning to a form factor that fits on consumer hardware. A major open-weight model release that expands what's possible for local AI development.

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Holo3: Breaking the Computer Use Frontier

Hugging Face BlogApr 1, 2026

Holo3: Breaking the Computer Use Frontier

H company released Holo3 — a new computer use model that claims state-of-the-art performance on browser and desktop automation benchmarks. The post covers architecture decisions and benchmark results showing Holo3 outperforming existing computer use models on key tasks. A significant new entrant in the fast-moving computer use agent space.

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TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library Built to Move with the Field

Hugging Face BlogMar 31, 2026

TRL v1.0: Post-Training Library Built to Move with the Field

Hugging Face released TRL v1.0 — a major milestone for their post-training library covering RLHF, DPO, PPO, and other alignment techniques. The v1.0 release signals API stability and production readiness for teams fine-tuning and aligning open-source models. The go-to library for post-training just became officially stable.

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Liberate your OpenClaw

Hugging Face BlogMar 27, 2026

Liberate your OpenClaw

Hugging Face published a guide on running OpenClaw agents locally with open-weight models — covering model selection, setup, and the tradeoffs between hosted and self-hosted agent deployments. Relevant for developers wanting to reduce API costs or run agents in air-gapped environments using open-source models.

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EVA: A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents

Hugging Face BlogMar 24, 2026

EVA: A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents

ServiceNow AI introduced EVA — an evaluation framework specifically designed for voice agents, covering turn-taking, interruption handling, latency perception, and task completion in speech-to-speech interactions. Fills a gap in agent evaluation tooling where most existing evals focus on text. Useful for any team building production voice agents.

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State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026

Hugging Face BlogMar 17, 2026

State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026

Hugging Face's spring 2026 snapshot of the open-source AI ecosystem — covering model downloads, trending architectures, the growth of multimodal and agent-capable models, and shifts in what the community is building. A useful benchmark for understanding where open-source AI stands relative to proprietary frontier models.

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Holotron-12B: High Throughput Computer Use Agent

Hugging Face BlogMar 17, 2026

Holotron-12B: High Throughput Computer Use Agent

H company released Holotron-12B — a 12B parameter model optimised for high-throughput computer use, balancing strong automation performance with the speed needed for real-time desktop and browser control. Positioned as a cost-effective option for teams that need computer use at scale without paying frontier model prices.

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Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries

Hugging Face BlogMar 10, 2026

Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries

A comparative analysis of 16 open-source reinforcement learning libraries for LLM training — covering throughput, async rollout support, scalability, and ease of use. Cuts through the rapidly crowded RL-for-LLMs space with concrete benchmarks and recommendations for different training scales. Useful reference for teams choosing a post-training RL stack.

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Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub

Hugging Face BlogMar 10, 2026

Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub

Hugging Face launched Storage Buckets — a new Hub feature for storing arbitrary files (datasets, checkpoints, outputs) alongside models and datasets in a unified workspace. Removes the need to use separate S3/GCS buckets for ML artefacts, keeping everything in the HF ecosystem. A practical platform improvement for teams with large training pipelines.

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GGML and llama.cpp join Hugging Face

Hugging Face BlogFeb 20, 2026

GGML and llama.cpp join Hugging Face

GGML and llama.cpp — the foundational libraries behind local LLM inference — are joining Hugging Face to ensure their long-term development and maintenance. This brings the most widely-used local inference stack under HF's open-source umbrella, with commitments to continued compatibility and community governance. A significant consolidation in the local AI ecosystem.

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IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail

Hugging Face BlogFeb 18, 2026

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail

IBM Research and UC Berkeley released IT-Bench and MAST — a benchmark suite and failure taxonomy for enterprise AI agents in real IT environments. The research identifies the root causes of enterprise agent failures across categories like tool misuse, context loss, and ambiguity handling. Practical reference for teams debugging why their production agents underperform in enterprise settings.

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Custom CUDA Kernels for All Using Codex and Claude Agent Skills

Hugging Face BlogFeb 13, 2026

Custom CUDA Kernels for All Using Codex and Claude Agent Skills

Hugging Face demonstrates using Codex and Claude agent skills to generate custom CUDA kernels — making GPU-level optimisation accessible to developers without deep CUDA expertise. The post shows how agent skills can encode specialist knowledge (GPU programming patterns) and apply it on demand. A compelling use case for agent skills beyond typical software engineering tasks.

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OpenEnv: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments

Hugging Face BlogFeb 12, 2026

OpenEnv: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments

OpenEnv is a new evaluation framework that tests tool-using agents in real-world execution environments rather than sandboxed simulations — catching failure modes that controlled benchmarks miss. The post covers the framework design, evaluation methodology, and results across several agent models. Useful for any team building agents that interact with real APIs or filesystems.

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Transformers.js v4: Now Available on NPM

Hugging Face BlogFeb 9, 2026

Transformers.js v4: Now Available on NPM

Transformers.js v4 is now available on NPM, bringing Hugging Face's in-browser and Node.js inference library to a major new release with improved model support, better performance, and a cleaner API. Developers can now run transformer models directly in JavaScript without a Python backend. A big upgrade for web developers building AI-powered browser applications.

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Community Evals: Taking Model Evaluation Back from Black-Box Leaderboards

Hugging Face BlogFeb 4, 2026

Community Evals: Taking Model Evaluation Back from Black-Box Leaderboards

Hugging Face launched Community Evals — an open framework for community-run model evaluations that anyone can contribute to, challenging the opacity of existing leaderboards. The goal is to build a more trustworthy, diverse set of model benchmarks driven by real use cases rather than optimised for leaderboard gaming. Important infrastructure for the open-source AI evaluation ecosystem.

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One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment: The Future of Open-Source AI

Hugging Face BlogFeb 3, 2026

One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment: The Future of Open-Source AI

Hugging Face reflects on one year since DeepSeek disrupted the AI landscape, examining how open-source AI has evolved in response — from the proliferation of capable open-weight models to new training approaches and the emerging AI+ ecosystem. The third in a series, focusing on where the global open-source AI movement goes next.

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Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS

Hugging Face BlogJan 27, 2026

Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS

LinkedIn's AI team shares a practical retrospective on training GPT-OSS with agentic reinforcement learning — covering the infrastructure challenges, reward design decisions, and lessons learned from scaling RL training to production-grade agent models. One of the more candid engineering accounts of what it actually takes to do agentic RL at scale.

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One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment

Hugging Face BlogJan 20, 2026

One Year Since the DeepSeek Moment

Hugging Face marks one year since DeepSeek-R1 shocked the AI world by matching frontier performance at a fraction of the cost, fundamentally changing assumptions about what open-source models can achieve. The post reflects on how that moment catalysed a wave of open-weight model development and reshaped the competitive landscape between open and closed AI.

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Open Responses: HF's Open Alternative to the Responses API

Hugging Face BlogJan 15, 2026

Open Responses: HF's Open Alternative to the Responses API

Hugging Face launched Open Responses — an open-source implementation of the Responses API spec, letting developers use the same agent-friendly API pattern against any open-weight model instead of being locked to OpenAI's hosted version. Compatible with OpenAI's SDK, making migration straightforward. Important infrastructure for the open-source agent ecosystem.

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