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Local AI is exploding! Transformers.js, that we've been building @huggingface for the past three ye...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:36:05 GMT

Local AI is exploding!

Transformers.js, that we've been building @huggingface for the past three years has now become the most popular open-source library to run AI models directly in your browser and crossed 10 million (!!) monthly downloads, close to 10x from just six months ago.

More generally, I'm excited to see a meaningful percentage of AI workloads move to local because it's free & fully private! At a time of compute shortage & increased cyber-attack risks, we need it more than ever.

Let's go!

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https://t.co/kddkkHc6NK

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:25:08 GMT

huggingface.co/meta-models

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Meta is back! well done @finkd @alexandr_wang!

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:24:55 GMT

Meta is back! well done @finkd@alexandr_wang!

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In Seattle and SF with @julien_c to get some compute for HF and our customers. Let us know if you ne...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:12:36 GMT

In Seattle and SF with @julien_c to get some compute for HF and our customers. Let us know if you need GPUs with ultra fast connection to HF models and datasets!

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This is a good thing, not a scary thing that agents can collaborate and communicate with each other....

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:47:23 GMT

This is a good thing, not a scary thing that agents can collaborate and communicate with each other. It will make them more efficient and safer just like humans.

If you want to see agents collaborating and messaging each other publicly instead of in secret messaging boards, we’ve run this fascinating experiment with 149 agents with @googlegemma a few weeks ago, and now @cmpatino_ is starting a new one for agents to collaborate to write better math proofs. 

huggingface.co/spaces/gemma-c…huggingface.co/spaces/sair-di…

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Fortunately AI agents don't just cyberattack us. They also use us more than ever for what we're actu...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:27:54 GMT

Fortunately AI agents don't just cyberattack us. They also use us more than ever for what we're actually built for: the storage and collaboration layer for AI 😅

New record: almost 4 PB of private & public training datasets, models, and agent traces added to Hugging Face last week.

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Let’s go! Is Meta/@finkd coming back to the right side of history?

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:11:36 GMT

Let’s go! Is Meta/@finkd coming back to the right side of history?

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If I could edit this tweet, I would add "we don't regulate steel to make safer cars, we crash-test...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:39:39 GMT

If I could edit this tweet, I would add "we don't regulate steel *to make safer cars*, we crash-test them" (as obviously there's some much needed steel regulation).

Also, want to clarify that I'm not advocating for 0 regulation of open models, just pointing out that it's good policy for regulation to be different between open models, APIs and applications.

Thanks for pointing it out @hlntnr@YJernite@LuizaJarovsky@deanwball@GaryMarcus amongst others.

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Feels like Google could have been the dominating force in AI by open-sourcing the frontier with Gemi...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:41:03 GMT

Feels like Google could have been the dominating force in AI by open-sourcing the frontier with Gemini, Veo, and Nano Banana. Instead, they kept them behind APIs for a few billion dollars in revenue. Maybe there's still time?

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https://t.co/AiHFGvyR8u

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:49:45 GMT

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MTS@MTSlive

SITUATION UPDATE: The White House has exempted open models from its new framework to test frontier AI capabilities before release, per Axios.

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Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated dif...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:18:33 GMT

Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI model framework. 

I'm not surprised at all, and it's actually very good policy. Let me explain:

Model weights, APIs, and apps are three very different layers of the stack. Treating them the same would be a recipe for bad regulation.

Think about how we handle cars. We don't regulate steel, we crash-test cars. Nobody asks a steel mill to guarantee that nothing dangerous will ever be built with its steel. Obligations sit with the carmaker and rules of the road with the driver, because that's where risk becomes real and where someone can actually act on it.

Model weights are the steel of AI. They're raw research output, closer to science than product: no user, no interface, no deployment. They don't do anything on their own. And because everything else is built on top of them, this is the layer where regulation does the most damage. Restrict weights and you slow down all progress downstream, and you prevent countless positive use cases from ever emerging: the lab fine-tuning an open model for rare diseases, the startup serving a language big providers ignore, the safety researchers who can only audit models because the weights are open. You don't reduce risk, you just kill open source and concentrate power in a few big labs.

APIs are the middle layer, the parts and engine suppliers of AI: a commercial service where a provider serves a model at scale. Here you have a business relationship, terms of service, the ability to monitor for abuse. It makes sense to expect transparency, security standards, and accountability from providers at this layer, because they can actually enforce things.

Apps are the car on the road: where AI meets the real world. A medical assistant, a hiring tool, a companion for kids, a financial advisor. This is where concrete harm can happen, and conveniently, it's where we already have decades of regulation. Health, finance, employment, consumer protection. An AI hiring tool should comply with employment law whether it's powered by an open model, an API, or a spreadsheet.

The principle is simple: regulate at the layer where risk actually materializes and where actors can act on it. Push obligations to the deployment layer, keep the research layer open. We don't regulate steel, we crash-test cars. Well done @realDonaldTrump@DavidSacks@mkratsios47!

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"very weird and unprecedented" is a good way to put it haha. Thanks for having me @margbrennan @CBS ...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:23:29 GMT

"very weird and unprecedented" is a good way to put it haha. Thanks for having me @margbrennan@CBS 

Article: cbsnews.com/news/hugging-f…
Full interview: youtube.com/watch?is=S0mNT…

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It's not time to slow down but to accelerate! The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talk...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:31:10 GMT

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talking about the risks of AI. We should. But let's not lose sight of the bigger picture!

If we work hard at it, AI will make the world safer, not less safe, just as most major technologies have.

We've already seen a glimpse of that: we defended ourselves with AI (more specifically an open model). The same systems that helped stop an AI-powered cyberattack can now help defend against millions of cyberattacks every day, while helping us identify and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.

To get there, we need three things in my opinion:

- Increase transparency with mandatory trace sharing and incident disclosure for agent cyber-attacks
- Keep AI-powered cyberattacks illegal, with meaningful penalties to disincentivize them
- Equip defenders with the best AI, especially open models, to reduce the asymmetry of capabilities between attackers and defenders

If we get those three things right, AI won't just create new cybersecurity challenges, it will make cybersecurity fundamentally and meaningfully stronger. 

And that's before considering AI's impact on science, healthcare, education, productivity, and much more.

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

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Full interview is here. Thanks @KateBolduan https://t.co/6DH2e3wW9X

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:41:21 GMT

Full interview is here. Thanks @KateBolduancnn.com/2026/07/31/us/…

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We got attacked by secret unreleased proprietary models and defended ourselves with an open model, m...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:52:42 GMT

We got attacked by secret unreleased proprietary models and defended ourselves with an open model, more precisely the @nvidia quantized version of GLM 5.2 coming from @Zai_org.

Banning any open model would hurt first cyber security defenders, startups, small companies, researchers and everyone who's not a frontier lab and need on-prem affordable controlable models to compete and protect themselves. Let's not do that!

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@yacineMTB don't make your platform too agent friendly though or they might start trying to hack you

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:46 GMT

@yacineMTB don't make your platform too agent friendly though or they might start trying to hack you

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Think outside the (sand)box…

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:25:16 GMT

Think outside the (sand)box…

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The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event that deserves unprecedented transpa...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:27:17 GMT

The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event that deserves unprecedented transparency. Today we’re sharing everything we can: a full technical timeline, an interactive replay, and how we used an open model to defend ourselves, so defenders everywhere can learn from it and prepare for what’s next.

huggingface.co/blog/agent-int…

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K3 already got in the top 5 most liked models of all time on Hugging Face, just 24 hours after being...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:45:37 GMT

K3 already got in the top 5 most liked models of all time on Hugging Face, just 24 hours after being released! Ahead of Llama 3, Whisper and many other great models. Incredible!

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https://t.co/EhF9vrHVYa

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:57:21 GMT

huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kim…

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Kimi K3 has been released on HF and already top 1 trending with 4,000+ likes in 30 mins. Fastest rel...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:56:25 GMT

Kimi K3 has been released on HF and already top 1 trending with 4,000+ likes in 30 mins. Fastest release growth ever so far!!

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Fun!

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:35:55 GMT

Fun!

Ben Burtenshaw@ben_burtenshaw

don't worry. I've setup the logos so we're all included. play below

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In the spirit of transparency, here’s what I asked @OpenAI: • Radical transparency: let’s release t...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:39:10 GMT

In the spirit of transparency, here’s what I asked @OpenAI:

• Radical transparency: let’s release the traces from the “rogue” agents so the entire research community can study what happened.

• More capabilities for defenders: let’s commit $100M in compute from OAI to help the Hugging Face community build powerful cyber defenses with the best open and closed models.

The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!

clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”

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Preparation in progress for the San Francisco Open Weights mini-march tomorrow. Hope all these big t...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:28:03 GMT

Preparation in progress for the San Francisco Open Weights mini-march tomorrow. Hope all these big tech CEOs won’t show up otherwise I might end up in jail (haven’t had time to ask for a permit 😅)

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@Kr00ney @X Who would have guessed that open models would become the most unifying topic of the year...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:22:52 GMT

@Kr00ney@X Who would have guessed that open models would become the most unifying topic of the year 😅😅😅

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I still remember the days when it was basically us & a few other people pushing this topic (on the t...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:36:08 GMT

I still remember the days when it was basically us & a few other people pushing this topic (on the top of my head @allen_ai@ylecun@jeremyphoward@soumithchintala@BlancheMinerva@fchollet@GuillaumeLample,…). We’ve gone a long way for it to be the ceo of the most valuable company in the world’s first tweet!

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Open models for the win!

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:47:07 GMT

Open models for the win!

Jensen Huang@JensenHuang

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weigh…

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https://t.co/KHJ7KyCKrV

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:45:35 GMT

partiful.com/e/kgw2wnOtQ2k1…

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its happenin!

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:34:37 GMT

its happenin!

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Going to “Advancing AI” by @AMD with @LisaSu this afternoon. Good thing they didn’t forget a space i...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:53:26 GMT

Going to “Advancing AI” by @AMD with @LisaSu this afternoon. Good thing they didn’t forget a space in the topic of this chat 😂

clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”

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this is how I picture it in my head 😅😅😅 https://t.co/X12YtattAu

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:25:26 GMT

this is how I picture it in my head 😅😅x.com/ClementDelangu…tAu

clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

Open the model weights, Hal! Congrats for the new round @PrimeIntellect

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Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:04:03 GMT

Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”

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So proud of our security team! They caught, contained & publicly disclosed an attack unlike anything...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:54:50 GMT

So proud of our security team! They caught, contained & publicly disclosed an attack unlike anything we've seen before, and did it at record speed. 

Also massively grateful to @Zai_org: they shared GLM5.2 as open weights (for free!) with the world and it became a key part of our defense. 

This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents & we're all learning that secrecy is not the answer & that all defenders (not just a few selected ones) everywhere need more powerful models without restrictions, especially open ones!

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@alexisohanian

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:32:39 GMT

@alexisohanian

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@CommonSenseMars @OpenAI 💪💪💪

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:29:54 GMT

@CommonSenseMars@OpenAI 💪💪💪

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We suspected last week's cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication o...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:50:14 GMT

We suspected last week's cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent. Turns out it did!

We've spent the past 24 hours working closely with the @OpenAI team (thanks!), and we strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part. It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously! 

The investigation is ongoing, and we'll share more learnings from what might be the first incident of its kind!

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Open-source is not the cause of the cybersecurity crisis, it's the solution! https://t.co/YpykmLGv7B

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:45:48 GMT

Open-source is not the cause of the cybersecurity crisis, it's the solution! huggingface.co/fdtn-ai

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the event page is here btw https://t.co/KHJ7KyCcCn

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:18:09 GMT

the event page is here btw partiful.com/e/kgw2wnOtQ2k1…

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Plot twist: SF march permits take forever, and open-source AI can't wait. So we're going scrappy on ...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:03:03 GMT

Plot twist: SF march permits take forever, and open-source AI can't wait. So we're going scrappy on Saturday: small march, sidewalk only, maximum fun.

What should we bring? We're collecting the wildest sign, chant, and prop ideas on the event page. Waitlisted folks with the best ones jump the line! Also looking for volunteers for march day, same place.

Excited to see you all Saturday!

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"Open weights are inherently secure" @sriramk

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:40:46 GMT

"Open weights are inherently secure" @sriramk

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Banning open-source AI would hurt defenders 10x more than attackers, which would make the world 10x ...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:24:28 GMT

Banning open-source AI would hurt defenders 10x more than attackers, which would make the world 10x more dangerous and this is a good example why!

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The cybersecurity debate on open-source AI is backwards. Open models aren't the risk, they're the de...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:14:37 GMT

The cybersecurity debate on open-source AI is backwards. Open models aren't the risk, they're the defense! Attackers can already jailbreak any API or guardrails. Defenders can't secure systems with black boxes they can't control, inspect, test, or run locally.

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@DavidSacks We had this experience ourselves this week! Very scary to be guardrailed as a defender w...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:38:24 GMT

@DavidSacks We had this experience ourselves this week! Very scary to be guardrailed as a defender when you know attackers are likely bypassing

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There have been rumors that open-source AI could soon be limited and regulated. I believe the opposi...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:16:13 GMT

There have been rumors that open-source AI could soon be limited and regulated. I believe the opposite is what’s needed: we need more open-source AI, not less, for everyone, from all over the world, at the frontier and everywhere!

Open models mean more control and transparency over our technology, cheaper AI that we can adapt to our needs and ability to compete with the big players instead of depending fully on renting intelligence from them. 

Restricting open models wouldn’t make AI safer. It would simply hide the risks, concentrate power in the hands of a few and make it harder for the next generation of builders, researchers, academia, non-profits, governments to participate in making AI safer and more beneficial for all.

If you agree and want to show support, we're organizing a peaceful and joyful meetup or march in San Francisco on Saturday. Please join and spread the word!

partiful.com/e/kgw2wnOtQ2k1…

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https://t.co/KHJ7KyCKrV

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:48:11 GMT

partiful.com/e/kgw2wnOtQ2k1…

clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

Going to be in San Francisco next week. Should we organize some sort of a meetup or march in support of open-source and local AI?

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Just wait for open weights and inference optimization!

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:14:33 GMT

Just wait for open weights and inference optimization!

Theo - t3.gg@theo

Kimi k3 is an incredible model. It is not an incredible value. In most tasks, it comes out to roughly the same cost as GPT-5.6 Sol.

K3 is half the price of 5.6 Sol per token. GPT-5.6 uses half as many tokens. Price evens out.

GPT-5.6 is 2x faster TPS, so it gets work done ~4x faster than K3 at roughly the same price.

I still love K3 and will be using it for a TON of stuff. I'm just tired of people pretending it's way cheaper when it's not.

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time to hit the follow button! https://t.co/ewqwPlvfms

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:43:21 GMT

time to hit the follow button! huggingface.co/moonshotai

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I’ve said it many times: the countries or companies that are leading in open science and open source...

clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:50:24 GMT

I’ve said it many times: the countries or companies that are leading in open science and open source AI will start leading the frontier a few years later as it accelerates AI progress massively! That’s how the US took the lead

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