Christopher Akiki
@christopher
research scientist at @unileipzig / @sca_ds in nlp, ir, and ml. @huggingface fellow. @lichess team member. @kaggle datasets expert.
A community member trained a tiny Llama model (23M parameters) on 3 million high-quality @lichess games, then deployed it to run entirely in-browser with 🤗 Transformers.js! Super cool! 🔥 It has an estimated ELO of ~1400... can you beat it? 👀 (runs on both mobile and desktop)
.@kaggle is officially at #ICML2025! We're giving researchers a preview of our new Benchmarks platform for creating, running, and sharing custom GenAI model evals. If you're here, come check it out and contribute to our crowdsourced ICML 2025 AI Experts' Benchmark (and yes, of…
Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters. Hover to see details, zoom to explore fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search page names to find interesting starting points for exploration.🧵 lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_ex…
The @NeurIPSConf 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks track CFP is open! Good datasets are essential to progress in AI so I'm thrilled to be a co-chair this year and with my fellow colleagues share some improvements to the submission and review process that raise the bar for standards of…
Can someone at @AnthropicAI please add a space between "soon." and "Or". Better yet, turn it into a comma.

Woah! @EA has just open-sourced Command and Conquer: Red Alert and a bunch of other CnC games! github.com/electronicarts…

The DuckDB Histogram function is one of my favorites 🤩 > from histogram(train, Rating) Here's a histogram for the Rating column in the chess-puzzles datasets. The dataset is over 4M rows too 👀
✨ Now on a @kaggle dataset near you! ✨ Our new Data Loader UI where you can quickly copy code to load in pandas DataFrame, @huggingface Dataset, or Croissant 🥐 formats using kagglehub kaggle.com/discussions/pr…
Welcome @lichess datasets to Kaggle! ♟️
Lichess is now on @kaggle! Use our puzzles, openings, and engine evaluation datasets directly in your kaggle notebooks: kaggle.com/organizations/… ♟️
Lichess is now on @kaggle! Use our puzzles, openings, and engine evaluation datasets directly in your kaggle notebooks: kaggle.com/organizations/… ♟️
The AI agent course keeps breaking records! Now breaking discord registration system You can still join at bit.ly/hf-learn-agents (let’s test discord infrastructure hahah)
Our review of 2024: lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog… Let’s look back at everything we’ve achieved in 2024, and some sneak previews of what might happen in 2025! What was your highlight?