Introduction
Running a small language model locally is straightforward. Running one productively — inside a real development workflow, with proper context, tool access, and iteration speed — is a different problem entirely.
The gap between "I got a model responding in my terminal" and "I have a local AI setup that actually improves how I…
Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
Most robotics launches ask you to trust a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, is instead shipping the training loop. This week it opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robot in which every movement — walking, sitting, kicking, roller-skating, standing back up after a fall — is a…
Today, we’re introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to support developers. Gemini Omni brought real-world reasoning to generative creation, and today’s updates make Omni 1.1 production-ready for professional use via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. Whether you’re building generative video workflows, creative tools, or…
MirroS released Code-as-World: a paradigm that represents physical worlds through executable world representations. The argument is narrow and testable: pixels are evidence of a physical scene, not its ontology. A video model can predict plausible frames without ever representing mass, contact, or gravity. So instead of pixels, latents, or captions, Code-as-World represents a scene as…
Every day, your organization produces a mountain of words. Support tickets, contracts, clinical notes, customer reviews, emails, call transcripts. Roughly 80% of all enterprise data exists as unstructured text like this — and until recently, almost none of it could be analyzed at scale. It just sat there. Natural Language Processing changed that. And in 2026, with large…
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Enterprise AI is moving into a very different phase.
The conversation is shifting from what AI can do to much harder questions: How do we scale it? How do we govern it? What should we automate? Is our data foundation ready? And who is accountable when AI starts making…
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded structure convincingly, yet PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, ReMOVE and CFD frequently rank their outputs the wrong way. The root cause is structural: erasure is an ill-posed, one-to-many task, so no single ground truth exists to…
At the edge, our E2B and E4B models redefine on-device utility, prioritizing multimodal capabilities, low-latency processing and seamless ecosystem integration over raw parameter count. Powerful, accessible, open To power the next generation of pioneering research and products, we've sized the Gemma 4 models specifically to run and fine-tune efficiently on hardware — from billions of…
What's new for readers We've rebuilt towardsdatascience.com from the ground up, but most of the changes affect the site’s infrastructure. The main positive effect for you is that the new site is faster. We've also moved to our own platform and have full control over every detail you see — unlike before, where WordPress limited what…
An operating system (OS) is the fundamental software that acts as an intermediary between computer hardware and user applications. It manages hardware resources such as the CPU, memory, storage, and input/output devices, while providing essential services like process scheduling, file management, security, and user interfaces. Without an OS, users would need to interact directly with…