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This week in open AI was ๐Ÿ”ฅ Let's recap! ๐Ÿค— merve/january-31-releases-679a10669bd4030090c5de4d
LLMs ๐Ÿ’ฌ
> Huge: AllenAI released new Tรผlu models that outperform DeepSeek R1 using Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) based on Llama 3.1 405B ๐Ÿ”ฅ
> Mistral AI is back to open-source with their "small" 24B models (base & SFT), with Apache 2.0 license ๐Ÿ˜ฑ
> Alibaba Qwen released their 1M context length models Qwen2.5-Instruct-1M, great for agentic use with Apache 2.0 license ๐Ÿ”ฅ
> Arcee AI released Virtuoso-medium, 32.8B LLMs distilled from DeepSeek V3 with dataset of 5B+ tokens
> Velvet-14B is a new family of 14B Italian LLMs trained on 10T tokens in six languages
> OpenThinker-7B is fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on OpenThoughts dataset

VLMs & vision ๐Ÿ‘€
> Alibaba Qwen is back with Qwen2.5VL, amazing new capabilities ranging from agentic computer use to zero-shot localization ๐Ÿ”ฅ
> NVIDIA released new series of Eagle2 models with 1B and 9B sizes
> DeepSeek released Janus-Pro, new any-to-any model (image-text generation from image-text input) with MIT license
> BEN2 is a new background removal model with MIT license!

Audio ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
> YuE is a new open-source music generation foundation model, lyrics-to-song generation

Codebase ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป
> We are open-sourcing our SmolVLM training and eval codebase! https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/tree/main/vision
> Open-R1 is open-source reproduction of R1 by @huggingface science team https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1
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Oof, what a week! ๐Ÿฅต So many things have happened, let's recap! merve/jan-24-releases-6793d610774073328eac67a9

Multimodal ๐Ÿ’ฌ
- We have released SmolVLM -- tiniest VLMs that come in 256M and 500M, with it's retrieval models ColSmol for multimodal RAG ๐Ÿ’—
- UI-TARS are new models by ByteDance to unlock agentic GUI control ๐Ÿคฏ in 2B, 7B and 72B
- Alibaba DAMO lab released VideoLlama3, new video LMs that come in 2B and 7B
- MiniMaxAI released Minimax-VL-01, where decoder is based on MiniMax-Text-01 456B MoE model with long context
- Dataset: Yale released a new benchmark called MMVU
- Dataset: CAIS released Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) a new challenging MM benchmark

LLMs ๐Ÿ“–
- DeepSeek-R1 & DeepSeek-R1-Zero: gigantic 660B reasoning models by DeepSeek, and six distilled dense models, on par with o1 with MIT license! ๐Ÿคฏ
- Qwen2.5-Math-PRM: new math models by Qwen in 7B and 72B
- NVIDIA released AceMath and AceInstruct, new family of models and their datasets (SFT and reward ones too!)

Audio ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
- Llasa is a new speech synthesis model based on Llama that comes in 1B,3B, and 8B
- TangoFlux is a new audio generation model trained from scratch and aligned with CRPO

Image/Video/3D Generation โฏ๏ธ
- Flex.1-alpha is a new 8B pre-trained diffusion model by ostris similar to Flux
- tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, new 3D asset generation from images
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smolagents can see ๐Ÿ”ฅ
we just shipped vision support to smolagents ๐Ÿค— agentic computers FTW

you can now:
๐Ÿ’ป let the agent get images dynamically (e.g. agentic web browser)
๐Ÿ“‘ pass images at the init of the agent (e.g. chatting with documents, filling forms automatically etc)
with few LoC change! ๐Ÿคฏ
you can use transformers models locally (like Qwen2VL) OR plug-in your favorite multimodal inference provider (gpt-4o, antrophic & co) ๐Ÿค 

read our blog http://hf.co/blog/smolagents-can-see
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Everything that happened this week in open AI, a recap ๐Ÿค  merve/jan-17-releases-678a673a9de4a4675f215bf5

๐Ÿ‘€ Multimodal
- MiniCPM-o 2.6 is a new sota any-to-any model by OpenBMB
(vision, speech and text!)
- VideoChat-Flash-Qwen2.5-2B is new video multimodal models by OpenGVLab that come in sizes 2B & 7B in resolutions 224 & 448
- ByteDance released larger SA2VA that comes in 26B parameters
- Dataset: VRC-Bench is a new diverse benchmark for multimodal LLM reasoning performance

๐Ÿ’ฌ LLMs
- MiniMax-Text-01 is a new huge language model (456B passive 45.9B active params) by MiniMaxAI with context length of 4M tokens ๐Ÿคฏ
- Dataset: Sky-T1-data-17k is a diverse dataset used to train Sky-T1-32B
- kyutai released Helium-1-Preview-2B is a new small multilingual LM
- Wayfarer-12B is a new LLM able to write D&D ๐Ÿง™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
- ReaderLM-v2 is a new HTML parsing model by Jina AI

- Dria released, Dria-Agent-a-3B, new agentic coding model (Pythonic function calling) based on Qwen2.5 Coder
- Unsloth released Phi-4, faster and memory efficient Llama 3.3

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Vision
- MatchAnything is a new foundation model for matching
- FitDit is a high-fidelity VTON model based on DiT architecture

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Audio
- OuteTTS-0.3-1B is a new multilingual text-to-speech model with voice cloning and emotion control capabilities

๐Ÿ“– Retrieval
- lightblue released a new reranker based on Qwen2.5 LB-reranker-0.5B-v1.0 that can handle 95+ languages
- cde-small-v2 is a new sota small retrieval model by
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merveย 
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there's a new multimodal retrieval model in town ๐Ÿค 
LlamaIndex released vdr-2b-multi-v1
> uses 70% less image tokens, yet outperforming other dse-qwen2 based models
> 3x faster inference with less VRAM ๐Ÿ’จ
> shrinkable with matryoshka ๐Ÿช†
> can do cross-lingual retrieval!
Collection: llamaindex/visual-document-retrieval-678151d19d2758f78ce910e1 (with models and datasets)
Demo: llamaindex/multimodal_vdr_demo
Learn more from their blog post here https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual ๐Ÿ“–
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What a beginning to this year in open ML ๐Ÿค 
Let's unwrap! merve/jan-10-releases-677fe34177759de0edfc9714

Multimodal ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ
> ByteDance released SA2VA: a family of vision LMs that can take image, video, text and visual prompts
> moondream2 is out with new capabilities like outputting structured data and gaze detection!
> Dataset: Alibaba DAMO lab released multimodal textbook โ€” 22k hours worth of samples from instruction videos ๐Ÿคฏ
> Dataset: SciCap captioning on scientific documents benchmark dataset is released along with the challenge!

LLMs ๐Ÿ’ฌ
> Microsoft released Phi-4, sota open-source 14B language model ๐Ÿ”ฅ
> Dolphin is back with Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.1 8B ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ
> Prime-RL released Eurus-2-7B-PRIME a new language model trained using PRIME alignment
> SmallThinker-3B is a new small reasoning LM based on Owen2.5-3B-Instruct ๐Ÿ’ญ
> Dataset: QWQ-LONGCOT-500K is the dataset used to train SmallThinker, generated using QwQ-32B-preview ๐Ÿ“•
> Dataset: @cfahlgren1 released React Code Instructions: a dataset of code instruction-code pairs ๐Ÿ“•
> Dataset: Qwen team is on the roll, they just released CodeElo, a dataset of code preferences ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป

Embeddings ๐Ÿ”–
> @MoritzLaurer released zero-shot version of ModernBERT large ๐Ÿ‘
> KaLM is a new family of performant multilingual embedding models with MIT license built using Qwen2-0.5B

Image/Video Generation โฏ๏ธ
> NVIDIA released Cosmos, a new family of diffusion/autoregressive World Foundation Models generating worlds from images, videos and texts ๐Ÿ”ฅ
> Adobe released TransPixar: a new text-to-video model that can generate assets with transparent backgrounds (a first!)
> Dataset: fal released cosmos-openvid-1m Cosmos-tokenized OpenVid-1M with samples from OpenVid-1M

Others
> Prior Labs released TabPFNv2, the best tabular transformer is out for classification and regression
> Metagene-1 is a new RNA language model that can be used for pathogen detection, zero-shot embedding and genome understanding