Daniël de Kok

I create a starter pack of current and former @explosion-ai.bsky.social. Give some of the people who made spaCy, Prodigy, Thinc, etc. a follow: go.bsky.app/VngRFva

Next week on Netflix: AI Gone Wild With Clem 🤗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l9r... #huggingface #netflix #ai

So cool! transformers can now run GGUF models efficiently. To bring the performance close to llama.cpp, it uses the underlying ggml kernels through our kernels library. Awesome work by @marcsun.bsky.social et al.! huggingface.co/blog/transfo...

It is with great sadness that we announce the recent loss of a dear GroNLP group member. Gosse Bouma will always remain in our hearts! If you would like to write down memories or your condolences, you are welcome to do so via this www.condoleance.nl/19800.

Exactly 10 years ago today, Matthew and I sat at the notary's office overlooking the city of Berlin, and signed the founding documents of our company, @explosion.ai. So much has happened since and we got to witness the field evolve, "AI" become mainstream, and hypes come and go. (1/8)

🚨I've just released Sentence Transformers v6.0! MultiVectorEncoder joins the family: ColBERT-style late interaction models are now a first-class model type, for training, inference & interpretation, alongside dense, sparse & reranker models. Big thread 🧵

I gave a talk on "Build-to-own AI: Agentic Development for Humans" at PyCon Armenia: how coding agents change the way we build ML systems and why code and programmable interfaces matter more than ever, not less. Here's the whole thing as a thread 🧵 (1/18)

You can think of human-agent collaboration like a centaur, and we imagine we're the head. But if the computer tells you what to do and you just click buttons and report back, you've got the horse's head and the human butt. That's why so many AI workflows feel bad. We need shared interfaces.

People not in tech have been interested in what happened with the Open AI agent/Hugging Face hack. So, I "Explain it Like I'm 5"-ed it and made a cartoon in 8 panels. Apologies for some anthro-ing. 🫤 m-mitchell.com/HF-hack-cart... 1/8

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We recently made a lot of updates to the kernels ecosystem, from improving security, adding a dedicated kernels repo type on the hub, to support for Apache tvm-ffi. We made a write-up of these recent changes in this blog post: huggingface.co/blog/revampe...

I switched from Claude Sonnet/Opus to mostly using Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2, and... nothing bad happened. The @hf.co Inference API makes it super easy to switch between different models and providers: huggingface.co/inference/mo... Open models are really competitive - great pricing and fast.

Looking for a software engineer to help maintain your OS repo? I currently have availability for a part-time open-source engagement. Preferably, focused on data, evaluations, NLP/ML/LLM. I work as a consultant through my company OxyKodit. DM me if you'd like to explore working together!

The flexibility of #nix and #nixos is insane. What if you are building compute kernels with Nix, but you need them to be compatible with manylinux_2_28 (based on Enterprise Linux 8)? Simple, repackage the EL8 gcc toolset RPMs as Nix derivations and wrap it in a stdenv. github.com/huggingface/...

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Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Want to be a beta partner of our upcoming product for agentic NLP? We're looking for teams who need help with their NLP projects, especially around tasks like information extraction. Ellf is a virtual assistant for NLP projects – think Claude Code, but with NLP superpowers, or "Vibe NLP" ✨

Safetensors has become one of the cornerstones of machine learning tooling for safe loading of arrays. Safetensors has now joined the @pytorch.org Foundation: pytorch.org/blog/pytorch... The repository has also moved to a new home: github.com/safetensors/...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ The mere act of existing and being visible shouldn’t be as fraught as it is today. Let’s keep fighting to set things right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

I got tables working nice

More embedding models and an even more reliable inference engine is what you get with @hf.co Text Embeddings Inference v1.9.0 💥 More in the thread 🧵

Kernels now has an agent skill to write custom Hub kernels: huggingface.co/blog/custom-... Awesome work by @benburtenshaw.bsky.social and Sayak Paul! 🔥

kernels 0.12 is out! 🎉 Changes: * Support for kernel version branches to gracefully roll out kernel API changes. * Support for PyTorch 2.10. * kernel-builder is now merged into the kernels repo. * Initial support for standardized kernel benchmarks. github.com/huggingface/...

DeepSeek R1 dropped one year ago 🐳 and a lot has changed. With Irene Solaiman, we’re launching a blog series on @hf.co about how that moment reshaped AI + open source in 2025, starting with strategic shifts and the explosion of new open models in China! huggingface.co/blog/hugging...

🔥I am super excited for the official release of an open-source library we've been working on for about a year! 🪄interpreto is an interpretability toolbox for HF language models🤗. In both generation and classification! Why do you need it, and for what? 1/8 (links at the end)

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future. The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline: · pre-training, · post-training, · infra. 200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️

The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀 A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-... In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.

We made a blog post on how you can use kernel-builder to develop and build compute kernels for the @hf.co Kernel Hub: huggingface.co/blog/kernel-...

Just released a new version of mktestdocs. It now also supports huggingface docstrings! github.com/koaning/mkt...

Some of the ModernBERT team is back with new encoder models: Ettin, ranging from tiny to small: 17M, 32M, 68M, 150M, 400M & 1B parameters. They also trained decoder models & checked if decoders could classify & if encoders could generate. Details in 🧵:

So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Read more and order now at huggingface.co/blog/reachy-...

SUSE has released Cavil-Qwen3-4B, a fine-tuned, #opensource #LLM on #HuggingFace. Built to detect #legal text like license declarations, it empowers #devs to stay #compliant. #fast #efficiently. #openSUSE #AI #Licenses news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/s...

Over the past few months, we have worked on the @hf.co Kernel Hub. Kernel Hub allows you to get cutting-edge compute kernels directly from the hub in a few lines of code. David Holz made a great writeup of how you can use kernels in your projects: huggingface.co/blog/hello-h...

Hi Berlin people! @hugobowne.bsky.social is in town & we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about building with AI & we'll also open the floor for lightning talks. If you're around, come hang out with us! 📆 June 16, 18:00 📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg) 🎟️ lu.ma/d53y9p2u

TGI v3.3.1 is released! This version switches to Torch 2.7 and CUDA 12.8. This should improve support for GPUs with compute capabilities 10.0 (B200) and 12.0 (RTX50x0 and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs). github.com/huggingface/...

@aob.nl mooie tijdslijn van de stakingen in het onderwijsblad, alleen de staking van 18 maart bij de @rug.nl vergeten, wel een beetje jammer!

We just released text-generation-inference 3.3.0. This release adds prefill chunking for VLMs 🚀. We have also Gemma 3 faster & use less VRAM by switching to flashinfer for prefills with images. github.com/huggingface/...