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mrfakename 
posted an update 5 days ago
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Hi everyone,

I just launched TTS Arena V2 - a platform for benchmarking TTS models by blind A/B testing. The goal is to make it easy to compare quality between open-source and commercial models, including conversational ones.

What's new in V2:

- **Conversational Arena**: Evaluate models like CSM-1B, Dia 1.6B, and PlayDialog in multi-turn settings
- **Personal Leaderboard**: Optional login to see which models you tend to prefer
- **Multi-speaker TTS**: Random voices per generation to reduce speaker bias
- **Performance Upgrade**: Rebuilt from Gradio → Flask. Much faster with fewer failed generations.
- **Keyboard Shortcuts**: Vote entirely via keyboard

Also added models like MegaTTS 3, Cartesia Sonic, and ElevenLabs' full lineup.

I'd love any feedback, feature suggestions, or ideas for models to include.

TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena-V2
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fdaudens 
posted an update 6 days ago
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Forget everything you know about transcription models - NVIDIA's parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 changed the game for me!

Just tested it with Steve Jobs' Stanford speech and was speechless (pun intended). The video isn’t sped up.

3 things that floored me:
- Transcription took just 10 seconds for a 15-min file
- Got a CSV with perfect timestamps, punctuation & capitalization
- Stunning accuracy (correctly captured "Reed College" and other specifics)

NVIDIA also released a demo where you can click any transcribed segment to play it instantly.

The improvement is significant: number 1 on the ASR Leaderboard, 6% error rate (best in class) with complete commercial freedom (cc-by-4.0 license).

Time to update those Whisper pipelines! H/t @Steveeeeeeen for the finding!

Model: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
Demo: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
ASR Leaderboard: hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard
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fdaudens 
posted an update 7 days ago
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I just gave my chatbots a massive upgrade: they can now generate audio from text, modify images — you name it. Here’s how:

The Gradio team shipped MCP support. That means you can plug any AI app built with it into Claude or Cursor using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — think of it like a USB port for LLMs.

I put it to the test:
- Whipped up a quick text-to-speech app with Kokoro on HF (with an LLM riding shotgun, naturally)
- Added "mcp_server=True" in the code
- Connected it to Claude

Now I can generate audio from any text. The possibilities are next-level: you can potentially plug any of the 500K+ AI apps on Hugging Face to your favorite LLM.

Is this the new UI for AI?

- My tts app (feel free to use/duplicate it): fdaudens/kokoro-mcp
- Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-mcp
alielfilali01 
posted an update 7 days ago
fdaudens 
posted an update 8 days ago
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Want to know which AI models are least likely to hallucinate — and how to keep yours from spiking hallucinations by 20%?

A new benchmark called Phare, by Giskard, tested leading models across multiple languages, revealing three key findings:

1️⃣ Popular models aren't necessarily factual. Some models ranking highest in user satisfaction benchmarks like LMArena are actually more prone to hallucination.

2️⃣ The way you ask matters - a lot. When users present claims confidently ("My teacher said..."), models are 15% less likely to correct misinformation vs. neutral framing ("I heard...").

3️⃣ Telling models to "be concise" can increase hallucination by up to 20%.

What's also cool is that the full dataset is public - use them to test your own models or dive deeper into the results! H/t @davidberenstein1957 for the link.

- Study: https://www.giskard.ai/knowledge/good-answers-are-not-necessarily-factual-answers-an-analysis-of-hallucination-in-leading-llms
- Leaderboard: https://phare.giskard.ai/
- Dataset: giskardai/phare
julien-c 
posted an update 12 days ago
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BOOOOM: Today I'm dropping TINY AGENTS

the 50 lines of code Agent in Javascript 🔥

I spent the last few weeks working on this, so I hope you will like it.

I've been diving into MCP (Model Context Protocol) to understand what the hype was all about.

It is fairly simple, but still quite powerful: MCP is a standard API to expose sets of Tools that can be hooked to LLMs.

But while doing that, came my second realization:

Once you have a MCP Client, an Agent is literally just a while loop on top of it. 🤯

➡️ read it exclusively on the official HF blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/tiny-agents
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fdaudens 
posted an update 14 days ago
victor 
posted an update 14 days ago
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DIA TTS is just amazing - please share your funniest gens (here is mine) 😂
nari-labs/Dia-1.6B
m-ric 
posted an update 20 days ago
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New king of open VLMs: InternVL3 takes Qwen 2.5's crown! 👑

InternVL have been a wildly successful series of model : and the latest iteration has just taken back their crown thanks to their superior, natively multimodal vision training pipeline.

➡️ Most of the vision language models (VLMs) these days are built like Frankenstein : take a good text-only Large Language Model (LLM) backbone, stitch a specific vision transformer (ViT) on top of it. Then the training is sequential 🔢 : 1. Freeze the LLM weights while you train the ViT only to work with the LLM part, then 2. Unfreeze all weights to train all weights in order to work together.

💫 The Shanghai Lab decided to challenge this paradigm and chose this approach that they call "native". For each of their model sizes, they still start from a good LLM (mostly Qwen-2.5 series, did I tell you I'm a huge fan of Qwen? ❤️), and stitch the ViT, but they don't freeze anything : they train all weights together with interleaved text and image understanding data in a single pre-training phase 🎨.

They claim it results in more seamless interactions between modalities. And the results prove them right: they took the crown of top VLMs, at nearly all sizes, from their Qwen-2.5 parents. 👑
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1024m 
authored a paper 21 days ago
fdaudens 
posted an update 21 days ago
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Just tested something this morning that feels kind of game-changing for how we publish, discover, and consume news with AI: connecting Claude directly to the New York Times through MCP.

Picture this: You ask Claude about a topic, and it instantly pulls verified and trusted NYT content — no more guessing if the info is accurate.

The cool part? Publishers stay in control of what they share via API, and users get fast, reliable access through the AI tools they already use. Instead of scraping random stuff off the web, we get a future where publishers actively shape how their journalism shows up in AI.

It’s still a bit technical to set up right now, but this could get super simple soon — like installing apps on your phone, but for your chatbot. And you keep the brand connection, too.

Not saying it solves everything, but it’s definitely a new way to distribute content — and maybe even find some fresh value in the middle of this whole news + AI shakeup. Early movers will have a head start.

Curious what folks think — could MCPs be a real opportunity for journalism?
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1024m 
authored a paper 23 days ago
fdaudens 
posted an update 26 days ago
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Want AI that truly understands your country's culture? Public institutions are sitting on the next AI revolution - and here's the practical guide to unlock it.

I've had fascinating conversations recently about sovereign AI, with people trying to solve this recurring question: "How do we build AI that truly understands our culture?"

This guide by @evijit and @yjernite brings lots of insights about this question. It's not just about throwing data at models. It's about partnering cultural expertise with tech infrastructure in ways we're just starting to figure out.

An example? The National Library of Norway already has 150+ AI models on Hugging Face. They're not just digitizing books - they're building AI that thinks in Norwegian, understands Norwegian values, and serves Norwegian citizens.

This is sovereign AI in practice: technology that understands your culture, values, and languages.

Especially loved the practical examples on how to do this:
- Real examples from museums, libraries, and government agencies
- How to convert complex documents (PDFs, PowerPoints) into ML-ready formats
- Code templates for processing public data
- Technical recipes for sharing datasets on open platforms

The stakes? Citizens' ability to leverage their collective digital intelligence.

The technology is ready. The infrastructure exists. The guide shows exactly how to use it. What's needed is your cultural expertise to shape these tools.

Check it out: https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/public-org-data-ai

P.s.: Building cool projects in a public institution? Share them in the comments for others to learn from!
fdaudens 
posted an update 27 days ago
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Do chatbots lie about Céline Dion? We now have answers, not speculation.

Ai2 just released OLMoTrace and it's a game-changer for transparency. You can literally see where an AI's responses come from in its training data - in real time.

The demo shows results about Céline. So I tried it out myself! Watch what happens in the video.

For journalists, researchers studying hallucinations and anyone who needs to trust their AI, this is like getting X-ray vision into AI systems. When the model made claims, I could instantly verify them against original sources. When it hallucinated, I could see why.

You can finally 1) understand how LLMs actually work and 2) verify if what they're saying is true. No more blind trust.

This pushes the open data movement to the next level.

👉 Blog post: https://allenai.org/blog/olmotrace
👉 Paper: https://www.datocms-assets.com/64837/1743890415-olmotrace.pdf

P.S.: A word of caution: never use a chatbot as a knowledge base. It's not Google. Better use it with a connection to the internet.
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1024m 
authored a paper 28 days ago
fdaudens 
posted an update 28 days ago
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🎨 Designers, meet OmniSVG! This new model helps you create professional vector graphics from text/images, generate editable SVGs from icons to detailed characters, convert rasters to vectors, maintain style consistency with references, and integrate into your workflow.

@OmniSVG
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reach-vb 
authored a paper 30 days ago
loubnabnl 
authored a paper 30 days ago
fdaudens 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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I read the 456-page AI Index report so you don't have to (kidding). The wild part? While AI gets ridiculously more accessible, the power gap is actually widening:

1️⃣ The democratization of AI capabilities is accelerating rapidly:
- The gap between open and closed models is basically closed: difference in benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval shrunk to just 1.7% in 2024
- The cost to run GPT-3.5-level performance dropped 280x in 2 years
- Model size is shrinking while maintaining performance - Phi-3-mini hitting 60%+ MMLU at fraction of parameters of early models like PaLM

2️⃣ But we're seeing concerning divides deepening:
- Geographic: US private investment ($109B) dwarfs everyone else - 12x China's $9.3B
- Research concentration: US and China dominate highly-cited papers (50 and 34 respectively in 2023), while next closest is only 7
- Gender: Major gaps in AI skill penetration rates - US shows 2.39 vs 1.71 male/female ratio

The tech is getting more accessible but the benefits aren't being distributed evenly. Worth thinking about as these tools become more central to the economy.

Give it a read - fascinating portrait of where AI is heading! https://hai-production.s3.amazonaws.com/files/hai_ai_index_report_2025.pdf
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BrigitteTousi 
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AI agents are transforming how we interact with technology, but how sustainable are they? 🌍

Design choices — like model size and structure — can massively impact energy use and cost. ⚡💰 The key takeaway: smaller, task-specific models can be far more efficient than large, general-purpose ones.

🔑 Open-source models offer greater transparency, allowing us to track energy consumption and make more informed decisions on deployment. 🌱 Open-source = more efficient, eco-friendly, and accountable AI.

Read our latest, led by @sasha with assists from myself + @yjernite 🤗
https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-agent-sustainability
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