June 2023

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 3 stories

1. 1Federated learning with weak supervision for speech recognition75
2. 2The Falcon has landed in the Hugging Face ecosystem
3. 3What's going on with the Open LLM Leaderboard?

The AI products people actually use. · 10 stories

1. 1University of Michigan’s SEAGULL wins Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge75
2. 2Introducing the Vercel AI SDK
3. 3DuckDB: analyze 50,000+ datasets stored on the Hugging Face Hub

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 2 stories

1. 1Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU and GPU platforms72
2. 2Accelerating Vision-Language Models: BridgeTower on Habana Gaudi2

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 3 stories

1. 1Testimony before the U.S. Senate72
2. 2Comment on NTIA AI Accountability Policy
3. 3Questions for the Record