7/ Today, Scira is a full-stack AI search engine used by 60,000+ people each month, with more than 1 million searches served. The GitHub repo has earned 8,000+ stars and continues to climb. Built in public. Maintained solo. Proven by use, not hype.
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Scira: From 500 to 16,000 Daily Users in December
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In December, Scira's daily traffic jumped from 500 to 16,000 overnight. His GitHub repo surged from 1K to 6K stars in just a few weeks. People weren't just curious. They were using it.
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Zaid’s Journey Building a Better AI-Powered Web Search Tool
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2/ Like many great dev stories, it started with frustration. Zaid wanted a better way to search across the web using AI. Something fast, clean, and customizable. Perplexity was powerful, but felt closed and out of reach. So he started building.
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MiniPerplx: Open-Source Search with Research Groups Feature
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He called it “MiniPerplx” at first: a lightweight, open-source alternative. No login. No paywall. No noise.
Then he added Research Groups which allowed search across YouTube, Reddit, and X, all at once, grouped by source. It actually worked. That’s when it took off. pic.twitter.com/Jitwo8ad9F3/ He called it “MiniPerplx” at first: a lightweight, open-source alternative. No login. No paywall. No noise. Then he added Research Groups which allowed search across YouTube, Reddit, and X, all at once, grouped by source. It actually worked. That’s when it took off.
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Solo founder builds open-source Perplexity competitor without funding
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This solo founder built an open-source competitor to Perplexity with no team, no funding, and no permission. What started as a weekend project now powers over 1M searches, with 60K+ monthly users. This is the story of @sciraai and how Zaid Mukaddam built what others wouldn’t.
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Hugging Face Science Team Showcases Year of AI Contributions
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The @huggingface Science team now has an org on the hub and it's really cool to look back at all their contributions of the past 12 months! Fineweb, LeRobot, TheStack, StarCoder2, SmolLM2, Big Science, LLMleaderboard, TRL, Nanotron, or some of the courses that have been followed
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SmolVLA: Accessible Vision-Language AI for Consumer Robot Projects
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SmolVLA: Affordable & Efficient VLA Robotics on Consumer GPUs Want to build a robot that sees, understands, and acts, without needing a PhD or a fat wallet?
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BLIP3-o: Salesforce’s New Unified Multimodal AI Model
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Introducing BLIP3-o: The Unified Multimodal Model BLIP3-o is pushing multimodal AI into a new era. From image captioning to visual question answering, this fully open-source model family from Salesforce AI bridges text and vision like never before. With 4B and 8B parameter
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nanoGPT: From Teaching Tool to Self-Improvement Benchmark
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Love this project: nanoGPT -> recursive self-improvement benchmark. Good old nanoGPT keeps on giving and surprising 🙂 – First I wrote it as a small little repo to teach people the basics of training GPTs.
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Tencent Releases Hunyuan-A13B Open-Source Reasoning Model
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Tencent released Hunyuan-A13B, a new open-source hybrid reasoning model It nears or matches models like o1 and DeepSeek R1 on major benchmarks, while remaining efficient enough to run on a single GPU Also includes "fast and slow" modes to adjust efficiency levels