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💪 The open-source community is really unstoppable:

+5M total downloads for DeepSeek models on @hf .co
+4M are from the 700 models created by the community
That's 30% more than yesterday!
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🚀 The open source community is unstoppable: 4M total downloads for DeepSeek models on Hugging Face, with 3.2M coming from the +600 models created by the community.

That's 30% more than yesterday!
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7 Open-source Methods to Improve Video Generation and Understanding

AI community is making great strides toward achieving the full potential of multimodality in video generation and understanding. Last week studies showed that working with videos is now one of the main focuses for improving AI models. Another highlight of the week is that open source, once again, proves its value. For those who were impressed by DeepSeek-R1, we’re with you!

Today, we’re combining these two key focuses and bringing you a list of open-source methods for better video generation and understanding:

1. VideoLLaMA 3 model: Excels in various video and image tasks thanks to vision-centric training approach. VideoLLaMA 3: Frontier Multimodal Foundation Models for Image and Video Understanding (2501.13106)

2. FILMAGENT framework assigns roles to multiple AI agents, like a director, screenwriter, actor, and cinematographer, to automate the filmmaking process in 3D virtual environments. FilmAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Film Automation in Virtual 3D Spaces (2501.12909)

3. Improving Video Generation with Human Feedback (2501.13918) proposes a new VideoReward Model and approach that uses human feedback to refine video generation models.

4. DiffuEraser video inpainting model, based on stable diffusion, is designed to fill in missing areas with detailed, realistic content and to ensure consistent structures across frames. DiffuEraser: A Diffusion Model for Video Inpainting (2501.10018)

5. MAGI is a hybrid video gen model that combines masked and casual modeling. Its key innovation, Complete Teacher Forcing (CTF), conditions masked frames on fully visible frames. Taming Teacher Forcing for Masked Autoregressive Video Generation (2501.12389)

6. Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise (2501.08331) proposes motion control, allowing users to guide how objects or the camera move in generated videos. Its noise warping algorithm replaces random noise in videos with structured noise based on motion info.

7. Video Depth Anything model estimates depth consistently in super-long videos (several minutes or more) without sacrificing quality or speed. Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos (2501.12375)
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🔥So many exciting releases coming from the Chinese community this month!
zh-ai-community/2025-january-6786b054f492fb223591269e

LLMs:
✨ Qwen2.5 -1M by Alibaba
Qwen/qwen25-1m-679325716327ec07860530ba
✨ InternLM3-8B-Instruct by Shanghai AI Lab
internlm/internlm3-8b-instruct
✨ MiniMax-Text-01 by MiniMax AI
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01
✨ RWKV-7 by BlinkDL -- RNN + Transformer 👀
BlinkDL/rwkv-7-world
✨ DeepSeek-R1 by DeepSeek -- THE ONE 🙌
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
✨ Baichuan-M1-14B by Baichuan - Medical 🩺
baichuan-inc/Baichuan-M1-14B-Base
✨ Qwen2.5-Math-PRM by Alibaba - Math 🔢
Qwen/Qwen2.5-Math-PRM-7B

Code:
✨ Tare by Bytedance
https://trae.ai

TTS:
✨ T2A-01-HD by MiniMax AI
https://hailuo.ai/audio
✨ LLaSA by HKUST Audio
HKUSTAudio/Llasa-3B

MLLM:
✨ Kimi k1.5 by Moonshot AI
https://kimi.ai
✨ MiniCPM-o-2_6 by OpenBMB
openbmb/MiniCPM-o-2_6
✨ Sa2VA-4B by ByteDance
ByteDance/Sa2VA-4B
✨ VideoLLaMA 3 by Alibaba DAMO
DAMO-NLP-SG/videollama3-678cdda9281a0e32fe79af15
✨ LLaVA-Mini by Chinese Academy of Sciences
ICTNLP/llava-mini-llama-3.1-8b
✨Hunyuan-7B by Tencent
tencent/Hunyuan-7B-Instruct
✨ Hunyuan 3D 2.0 by Tencent
tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
✨MiniMax-VL-01 by MiniMax AI - A non transformer based VLM 👀
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-VL-01

Agent:
✨ UI-TARS by Bytedance
bytedance-research/UI-TARS-7B-SFT
✨ GLM-PC by Zhipu AI
https://cogagent.aminer.cn

Dataset:
✨ Fineweb-Edu-Chinese by Opencsg
opencsg/Fineweb-Edu-Chinese-V2.1
✨ Multimodal_textbook by Alibaba
DAMO-NLP-SG/multimodal_textbook
✨ MME-Finance by Hithink AI
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Yes, DeepSeek R1's release is impressive. But the real story is what happened in just 7 days after:

- Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...

- The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on Hugging Face. Total downloads? 2.5M—nearly 5X the originals.

The reason? DeepSeek models are open-weight, letting anyone build on top of them. Interesting to note that the community focused on quantized versions for better efficiency & accessibility. They want models that use less memory, run faster, and are more energy-efficient.

When you empower builders, innovation explodes. For everyone. 🚀

The most popular community model? @bartowski 's DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF version — 1M downloads alone.
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BIG release by DeepSeek AI🔥🔥🔥

DeepSeek-R1 & DeepSeek-R1-Zero: two 660B reasoning models are here, alongside 6 distilled dense models (based on Llama & Qwen) for the community!
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

✨ MIT License : enabling distillation for custom models
✨ 32B & 70B models match OpenAI o1-mini in multiple capabilities
✨ API live now! Access Chain of Thought reasoning with model='deepseek-reasoner'
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Reminder: Don’t. Use. ChatGPT. As. A. Calculator. Seriously. 🤖

Loved listening to @sasha on Hard Fork—it really made me think.

A few takeaways that hit home:
- Individual culpability only gets you so far. The real priority: demanding accountability and transparency from companies.
- Evaluate if generative AI is the right tool for certain tasks (like search) before using it.

Curious about the full conversation? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/podcasts/hardfork-tiktok-rednote-environment.html. Give it a listen—it’s worth it! 🌍
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Everything that happened this week in open AI, a recap 🤠 merve/jan-17-releases-678a673a9de4a4675f215bf5

👀 Multimodal
- MiniCPM-o 2.6 is a new sota any-to-any model by OpenBMB
(vision, speech and text!)
- VideoChat-Flash-Qwen2.5-2B is new video multimodal models by OpenGVLab that come in sizes 2B & 7B in resolutions 224 & 448
- ByteDance released larger SA2VA that comes in 26B parameters
- Dataset: VRC-Bench is a new diverse benchmark for multimodal LLM reasoning performance

💬 LLMs
- MiniMax-Text-01 is a new huge language model (456B passive 45.9B active params) by MiniMaxAI with context length of 4M tokens 🤯
- Dataset: Sky-T1-data-17k is a diverse dataset used to train Sky-T1-32B
- kyutai released Helium-1-Preview-2B is a new small multilingual LM
- Wayfarer-12B is a new LLM able to write D&D 🧙🏻‍♂️
- ReaderLM-v2 is a new HTML parsing model by Jina AI

- Dria released, Dria-Agent-a-3B, new agentic coding model (Pythonic function calling) based on Qwen2.5 Coder
- Unsloth released Phi-4, faster and memory efficient Llama 3.3

🖼️ Vision
- MatchAnything is a new foundation model for matching
- FitDit is a high-fidelity VTON model based on DiT architecture

🗣️ Audio
- OuteTTS-0.3-1B is a new multilingual text-to-speech model with voice cloning and emotion control capabilities

📖 Retrieval
- lightblue released a new reranker based on Qwen2.5 LB-reranker-0.5B-v1.0 that can handle 95+ languages
- cde-small-v2 is a new sota small retrieval model by
@jxm
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AI agents are coming. But who's in control?

@meg , one of the best researchers in AI ethics, makes a critical point about autonomy: fully autonomous systems carry unknowable risks because they operate on computer logic rather than human logic.

The solution? Build systems that support & assist rather than override human decisions.

I highly recommend reading the blog post written by Meg, @evijit @sasha and @giadap . They define different levels of agent autonomy & provide a values-based analysis of risks, benefits, and uses of AI agents to help you make better decisions.

👉 https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-7

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🔥 The AI Agent hype is real! This blog post deep dives into everything you need to know before deploying them: from key definitions to practical recommendations. A must-read for anyone building the future of autonomous systems.

📊 Key insight: A clear table breaking down the 5 levels of AI agents - from simple processors to fully autonomous systems. Essential framework for understanding where your agent stands on the autonomy spectrum

⚖️ Deep analysis of 15 core values reveals critical trade-offs: accuracy, privacy, safety, equity & more. The same features that make agents powerful can make them risky. Understanding these trade-offs is crucial for responsible deployment

🎯 6 key recommendations for the road ahead:
- Create rigorous evaluation protocols
- Study societal effects
- Understand ripple effects
- Improve transparency
- Open source can make a positive difference
- Monitor base model evolution

Read the blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-7 Brillant work by @meg @evijit @sasha @giadap
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FACTS is a great paper from @GoogleDeepMind on measuring the factuality of LLM outputs. You can now download their prompt templates from @huggingface to improve LLM-based fact-checking yourself!

📏 The paper introduces the FACTS Grounding benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLM outputs.

🤖 Fact-checking is automated by an ensemble of LLM judges that verify if a response is fully grounded in a factual reference document.

🧪 The authors tested different prompt templates on held-out data to ensure their generalization.

📚 It's highly educational to read these templates to learn how frontier labs design prompts and understand their limitations.

💾 You can now download and reuse these prompt templates via the prompt-templates library!

🔄 The library simplifies sharing prompt templates on the HF hub or locally via standardized YAML files. Let’s make LLM work more transparent and reproducible by sharing more templates like this!

Links 👇
- prompt-templates docs: https://moritzlaurer.github.io/prompt_templates/
- all templates on the HF Hub: MoritzLaurer/facts-grounding-prompts
- FACTS paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/FACTS/FACTS_grounding_paper.pdf
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🔍 From instruction-following to creative storytelling, dive into 2024's most impactful AI datasets! These gems are shaping everything from scientific research to video understanding.

Check it out: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
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🤝 Want to share your AI models while protecting your work? Licenses are key!

Fascinating to see that nearly 60% of models on the Hub use Apache & MIT licenses.

Explore the viz here: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
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Did a fun experiment: What are the main themes emerging from the 100+ Nieman Journalism Lab predictions for 2025?

I used natural language processing to cluster and map them — really helps spot patterns that weren't obvious when reading predictions one by one. So what will shape journalism next year? A lot of AI and US politics (surprise!), but there's also this horizontal axis that spans from industry strategies to deep reflections on how to talk to the public.

Click any dot to explore the original prediction. What themes surprise/interest you the most?

👉 fdaudens/nieman_lab_2025_predictions_visualization

P.s.: I discovered that Nieman Lab's content is under Creative Commons license!
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We outperform Llama 70B with Llama 3B on hard math by scaling test-time compute 🔥

How? By combining step-wise reward models with tree search algorithms :)

We show that smol models can match or exceed the performance of their much larger siblings when given enough "time to think"

We're open sourcing the full recipe and sharing a detailed blog post.

In our blog post we cover:

📈 Compute-optimal scaling: How we implemented DeepMind's recipe to boost the mathematical capabilities of open models at test-time.

🎄 Diverse Verifier Tree Search (DVTS): An unpublished extension we developed to the verifier-guided tree search technique. This simple yet effective method improves diversity and delivers better performance, particularly at large test-time compute budgets.

🧭 Search and Learn: A lightweight toolkit for implementing search strategies with LLMs and built for speed with vLLM

Here's the links:

- Blog post: HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling-test-time-compute

- Code: https://github.com/huggingface/search-and-learn

Enjoy!
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🇪🇺 Policy Thoughts in the EU AI Act Implementation 🇪🇺

There is a lot to like in the first draft of the EU GPAI Code of Practice, especially as regards transparency requirements. The Systemic Risks part, on the other hand, is concerning for both smaller developers and for external stakeholders.

I wrote more on this topic ahead of the next draft. TLDR: more attention to immediate large-scale risks and to collaborative solutions supported by evidence can help everyone - as long as developers disclose sufficient information about their design choices and deployment contexts.

Full blog here, based on our submitted response with @frimelle and @brunatrevelin :

https://huggingface.co/blog/yjernite/eu-draft-cop-risks#on-the-proposed-taxonomy-of-systemic-risks
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TL;DR: The Story of Attention's Development by @karpathy

Origin: First proposed in 2014 by @Dzmitry Bahdanau, @KyunghyunCho , and Yoshua Bengio in Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (1409.0473) . Inspired by cognitive processes and later renamed from "RNNSearch."

Key Idea: A data-dependent weighted average for pooling and communication, enabling flexible and powerful neural network connections.

Breakthrough: Bahdanau's "soft search" mechanism (softmax + weighted averaging) solved encoder-decoder bottlenecks in machine translation.
Transformer Revolution: Attention Is All You Need (1706.03762) (2017) by @ashishvaswanigoogle et al. simplified architectures by stacking attention layers, introducing multi-headed attention and positional encodings.
Legacy: Attention replaced RNNs, driving modern AI systems like ChatGPT. It emerged independently but was influenced by contemporaneous work like Alex Graves’s Neural Turing Machines (1410.5401) and Jason Weston’s Memory Networks (1410.3916) .

Attention to history: Jürgen Schmidhuber claims his 1992 Fast Weight Programmers anticipated modern attention mechanisms. While conceptually similar, the term “attention” was absent, and there’s no evidence it influenced Bahdanau, Cho, and Bengio’s 2014 work. Paying attention (!) to history might have brought us to genAI earlier – but credit for the breakthrough still goes to Montreal.

Referenced Papers:
Attention Origin: Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (1409.0473)
Transformers: Attention Is All You Need (1706.03762)
Alex Graves' Work: Neural Turing Machines (1410.5401), Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks (1308.0850)
Jason Weston @spermwhale 's Memory Networks (1410.3916)
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks (1409.3215) by Ilya Sutskever ( @ilyasut ), Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le

Who else deserves recognition in this groundbreaking narrative of innovation? Let’s ensure every contributor gets the credit they deserve. Leave a comment below 👇🏻🤗
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