Hugging Face
Hugging Face is the GitHub of machine learning — the platform hosting millions of open models, datasets and demos. Its Transformers library and open leaderboards made it the center of gravity for open-source AI. All our Hugging Face coverage lives on this page.

PaddleOCR 3.5 Gains Support for Hugging Face Transformers
PaddleOCR has been updated with full support for Hugging Face Transformers as an inference backend. Text recognition and document parsing now work in a PyTorch…

Ettin Reranker from Hugging Face: 6 Models for Precise Search Reranking
Hugging Face released 6 Ettin rerankers based on ModernBERT with state-of-the-art accuracy and speed thanks to Flash Attention 2 and sequence optimization.

Together AI Expanded Its Platform: Fine-tuning Models with 100B+ Parameters
Together AI's fine-tuning platform now trains the most powerful open models — DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3-235B, and Llama 4 — with support for extended contexts and Hugging…

GLiGuard by Fastino Labs: a safety model 16x faster than larger competitors

5 small open models with tool calling: agents that don't need the cloud

H Company released Holotron-12B — a model for agents with a 2x speed increase

NVIDIA introduced SPEED-Bench — a unified benchmark for speculative decoding

NVIDIA showed how to fine-tune an embedding model for a specific domain in a day
NVIDIA and Hugging Face published a step-by-step recipe that turns a base embedding model into specialized search over internal documents in a few hours.

ServiceNow introduced EVA — a new framework for evaluating voice AI agents
ServiceNow released EVA — a system that evaluates voice AI agents not only by task success, but also by dialogue quality, from response brevity to turn timing.

Google released Gemma 4 on Hugging Face: multimodal models for local inference

Hugging Face added gradio.Server: custom frontends can now connect to a Gradio backend

Hugging Face transfers Safetensors to the PyTorch Foundation for neutral governance of the format

Five Free AI Image Generators: An Honest 2026 Test

Hugging Face published Ecom-RLVE, a training environment for e-commerce AI agents
Hugging Face published Ecom-RLVE, an open-source environment where AI agents learn to handle purchase conversations, use tools, and earn a verifiable reward for the…

Google, Kling, and Yandex: where to generate AI video for free in 2026 and what limits apply
A review of free AI video generation services shows where you can create a video without paying, how many attempts Google, Kling, Luma, and others provide, and what…









