Ending AI Evaluation Anarchy: How Hugging Face and EEE Are Building a Trusted Record for Model Performance
EEE and Hugging Face Community Evals are now integrated, enabling standardized evaluation results with full metadata to be posted directly on model pages, solving the problem of scattered, incomparable scores and moving the industry toward evaluation transparency.
Hugging Face Blog · Jun 30, 2026
We got local models to triage the OpenClaw repo for FREE!*
Facing the risk of closed-source model removals, the authors used local Gemma and Qwen models within an agent harness to achieve real-time, near-zero-cost issue classification for the OpenClaw repository.
Hugging Face Blog · Jun 22, 2026
Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere’s First Model For Developers
Cohere launches North Mini Code, its first developer-focused open-source model. With 30B total parameters and only 3B active, the MoE architecture delivers strong agentic coding performance, outperforming many larger peers.
Hugging Face Blog · Jun 9, 2026
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
Veteran open-source contributor Chad Whitacre is leaving the tech industry entirely due to the alienation caused by AI, choosing to become 'AI Amish' and return to an offline life, sparking deep reflection on technological accelerationism and personal digital well-being.
Simon Willison · May 31, 2026
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
The UK's NHS closed its open-source repositories due to security vulnerabilities, prompting a public rebuke from the Government Digital Service and sparking a deeper debate on open-source strategy in the AI era.
Simon Willison · May 17, 2026
Exploring the new `servo` crate
The Servo team released the first `servo` crate (v0.1.0), packaging their browser engine as an embeddable Rust library. Simon Willison used Claude Code to build a CLI screenshot tool called `servo-shot`, validating Servo's software rendering pipeline on stable Rust, though compiling to WebAssembly remains limited by threads and SpiderMonkey dependencies.
Simon Willison · Apr 13, 2026
Safetensors is Joining the PyTorch Foundation
Safetensors joins the PyTorch Foundation, marking a new development in safety and governance in the open-source community.
Hugging Face Blog · Apr 8, 2026
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Simon Willison used AI to analyze raw HTTP APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and Mistral to redesign LLM library's abstraction layer.
Simon Willison · Apr 5, 2026
Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165
The OpenMed team developed an efficient mRNA optimization pipeline, training the CodonRoBERTa-large-v2 model across 25 species by comparing various transformer architectures, significantly enhancing protein expression capabilities.
Hugging Face Blog · Mar 31, 2026
GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
The joining of GGML and llama.cpp will provide stronger support for the development of Local AI, facilitating the popularization and development of open-source intelligence.
Hugging Face Blog · Feb 20, 2026
microgpt
Andrej Karpathy's microgpt project demonstrates how to implement a simplified GPT model from scratch in just 200 lines of Python code, revealing a trend towards minimalism in AI development.
Andrej Karpathy · Feb 12, 2026