clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue)

Super happy to release SmolDataEnvs: 5,000 verifiable RL environment tasks for hill-climbing small models in code and data science by @adithya_s_k 100% open source: environments, evals, training!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick things up, get back up when it falls, and even roller-skate. Welcome to the era of open-source affordable robots to democratize physical AI and world models! 🤗🤗🤗

Local AI is having its moment! Below is the number of new GGUF models created each month over the past 8 months & insights from our HF internal agent (May is partial): - 176,000 total public GGUF models on HF - Two distinct regimes: Oct–Feb averaged ~5.1K new GGUF models/month. Then March–April jumped to ~9.2K/month — nearly double the previous rate. - March was the inflection point (+55% MoM) — likely driven by a wave of new open-weight model releases being quantized to GGUF. - April sustained the momentum at 9.7K, suggesting this isn't a one-off spike but a new baseline. - The GGUF ecosystem is accelerating — the community is quantizing models faster than ever, likely thanks to better tooling (llama.cpp improvements, automated quantization pipelines, and more models supporting GGUF natively). Let's go!