Ideogram 4.0 open weights are live — claimed #1 open image model, downloadable, fine-tunable on own data, available now at ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-nf4 on HuggingFace.
HuggingFace skills let Claude Code fine-tune a VLM with a single prompt: agent calculates VRAM, picks instance, launches job on HF infra. Fully agentic model training.
HuggingFace releases smol-audio: an open notebook collection covering local fine-tuning of Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Audio Flamingo 3, and Dia-1.6B TTS — a complete local audio AI toolkit.
Unsloth, the fine-tuning optimization library, has surpassed Microsoft on HuggingFace to enter the top 10 most-followed organizations — reflecting open-source momentum over Big Tech on the platform.
Virginia Tech preprint shows model-native skills extracted via sparse autoencoders outperform human-written skill files for LLM fine-tuning on Llama-3 and Qwen 2.5.
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