Thomas Wolf

Thrilled to finally share what we've been working on for months at @huggingface 🤝@pollenrobotics Our first robot: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Tiny price, small size, huge…

AI-native startups are a different beast: - “Do things that don’t scale” used to be for bootstrapping. AI makes it a plausible scaling strategy. - SaaS was cheap to run (zero marginal cost). AI isn’t (high linear slope) Just 2 examples. Should write a long post someday.

I remember being so impressed when I added the transformers XL model of Yang Zhilin as the third model in the transformers library back in early 2019 not surprised he's now shipping crazy impressive stuff with Moonshot AI it's a long story I should tell one day but in a way…

honestly this is just mind-blowing - open-source models just keeps pushing higher to challenge the latest closed-weights models far at the frontier of capabilities and you can run them everywhere - for a fraction of the price Also, the @Kimi_Moonshot team has been shipping a…

if you’re interested in pushing new records on fusion with AI, we’ve just launched a kaggle-like competition with @proximafusion (the startup that spun out of Wendelstein 7-X discussed in this HN news) All the details at huggingface.co/blog/cgeorgiaw…

My bar for AGI is an AI winning a Nobel Prize for a new theory it originated.

How do you get people to trust robots? Make them cute. @huggingface's co-founder and chief scientist @Thom_Wolf explains why the company is betting on friendly AI hardware. Catch the full conversation on the latest episode of @EquityPod 👇 tcrn.ch/3GPrff5

amazing times

I spoke to Hugging Face cofounder @Thom_Wolf about the Reachy Mini, and the company's bet on cute, desktop robotic devices to bring open source AI models into people's homes. TBH, I think the Reachy Mini is one of a few AI devices people I know are really excited about.

Modern reasoning models think in plain English. Monitoring their thoughts could be a powerful, yet fragile, tool for overseeing future AI systems. I and researchers across many organizations think we should work to evaluate, preserve, and even improve CoT monitorability.

$1M in Reachy Mini sales. Now we can’t wait to see what you’ll build with it.

so much of school evaluation is still fully based on tasks AI can already do better and faster curriculums are evolving but testing hasn’t caught up

5 days after launch and we've sold $1M of Reachy Mini Steadily getting $50k orders per day following the release peak time to ramp up production!

Impressive new addition to @LeRobotHF DIY hardware library HopeJR: the most advanced open-source robotic arm 🦾 3d print it for $500 (!) teleoperate it with LeRobot library 23 degrees of freedom: 16 in the hand + 7 in shoulder-elbow-wrist homepage: huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/h…

play-testing a Reachy Mini prototype (with music)

Quick update and announcement: 24h since we announced Reachy Mini and we're quickly approaching $500,000 in pre-orders (!) We knew this product was special (everyone on the team wanted one), but the response has been even more overwhelming than expected—thanks for the incredible…