Perplexity AI, valued at $18B, just dropped a bombshell: an unsolicited $34.5B all-cash bid to buy Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, the browser used by 3B+ users. They promise to keep Chromium open source, invest $3B in 2 years, and even keep Google as the default search
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Boosting Visibility for Open-Source AI Models and Spaces
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maybe we should do it for open-source models and spaces to help getting them the visibility they deserve!
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Astral unveils private package registry business model for Python
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Astral (the VC-backed company behind the popular open source Python tools uv, ruff and ty) have unveiled the first hints at their business model today – a private package registry for companies that use Python My notes here: https://
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LLM Security and Open Source Discussion with Corey Quinn
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I talked to Corey Quinn for the latest episode of his podcast Screaming in the Cloud – we had a really fun and very high energy conversation about LLM security, open source, blogging, tiny museums and a whole host of other topics
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Morgan Stanley Joins Hugging Face Platform
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Deep Agents UI: Todo Lists, File System, and Subagents
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Deep Agents UI Deep agents operate with a todo list, file system, and subagents We built a dedicated UI for running deep agents that properly highlights all of these things! Repo: https://
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State of Model Merging 2025: Evolution and Technical Advances
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Model merging has evolved quite a lot in a year. Here's my "State of Model Merging 2025". Thanks to Nicolay for the invitation and his precise technical questions!
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French Engineer Builds Open-Source Robot with Pollen Robotics
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That's what a French engineer (@jaSimbals) is building for fun (spotted by @RemiFabreRobot) 🤯🤯🤯
— clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) 13 août 2025
Things like that are making me excited about the power of open-source and collaboration for robotics that @pollenrobotics & @huggingface can unleash!
Let's build the future!… pic.twitter.com/zYKA8L6fIgThat's what a French engineer (
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GPT-OSS Pretraining Accuracy Concerns Discussed
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yes––planning on it! although i worry about the accuracy of this kind of thing since the pretraining of GPT-OSS seems to have been pretty unique
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Evaluating Base Models: Math, Code, and Reasoning Performance
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what are some good evals for base models? will run! (FYI i expect it to not perform _that_ well since the model card emphasizes they really only pretrained gpt-oss to be good at math/code/reasoning. also my basemodelrecovery process is likely somewhat lossy.)