Efficient Language Specialization for Small Language Models @maxencelsb and @SinoueG have released a preprint about their excellent work on fine-tuning small models in French. It shows a solid post-training pipeline to improve French performance while preserving English
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Karpathy’s Nano Repo Brings Joy to X Timeline
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When Karpathy drops a nano repo, X timeline is great again! Everyone is basically happy.
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Variant Data Type Ratified in Apache Parquet Ecosystem
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Exciting news for the open data community: Variant, the native data type for semi-structured data, is now ratified in the Apache Parquet™ community — with support across Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg™, and Apache Spark™. Variant brings a unified, open standard to how the
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Hugging Face Datasets Critical Infrastructure for AI Model Training
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Ty! huggingface work/infra/datasets are critical to projects like nanochat – to be accurate the source code of nanochat (e.g. at the $100 tier) is ~8KB of Python and ~30GB of fineweb/smoltalk.
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Karpathy releases new LLM training project under 8000 lines
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> karpathy just released a new project > in it, and in under 8000 lines of code you get to: > train the tokenizer using a new rust implementation
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Japanese LFM2 PII Extractor Released with 350M Parameters
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New LFM2 release 🥳
— Maxime Labonne @ ICLR (@maximelabonne) 13 octobre 2025
It's a Japanese PII extractor with only 350M parameters.
It's extremely fast and on par with GPT-5 (!) in terms of quality.
Check it out, it's available today on @huggingface! pic.twitter.com/ojrU8SbG42New LFM2 release It's a Japanese PII extractor with only 350M parameters. It's extremely fast and on par with GPT-5 (!) in terms of quality. Check it out, it's available today on @huggingface
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ScrapeCraft: AI-Powered Web Scraping with LangGraph
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ScrapeCraft: AI-Powered Scraping ScrapeCraft uses LangGraph to combine AI assistance with powerful web scraping. Features include bulk URL scraping, real-time data streaming, and AI-powered pipeline generation. Explore the project on GitHub! https://
github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/
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LangCode CLI: AI-Powered Development Tool with Intelligent Model Routing
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LangCode CLI A powerful dev tool that unifies AI models for smart coding. Built with LangChain, it offers automated tasks and safe code changes through intelligent model routing and diff previews. Check it out! https://
github.com/zamalali/langc
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vLLM Limitations in Broader AI Landscape
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vLLM is a small part of the whole picture. They're massively lacking.
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PyTorch Multiprocessing Tensor Sharing Across Processes
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pytorch uses this for sharing tensors across processes in torch.multiprocess