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The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps

There's an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they're centered around one device: the smartphone.That changes today as Hugging Face, the 10-year-old New York City startup best known for being the go-to place online to host and use cutting-edge, open-source AI models, agents and applications, launches a new App Store for Reachy Mini, its low-cost ($299) open-source physical robot that debuted back in July 2025 (itself the fruit of Hugging Face's acquisition of another startup, Pollen Robotics). The new Hugging Face Reachy Mini App Store already hosts a library of over 200 community-built applications, and Reachy Mini owners will be able to download any of these free of charge to start (unlike smartphone [...]

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You can now pre-order Hugging Face's Reachy Mini robots

Hugging Face has launched a new AI-powered robot called the Reachy Mini. Described by its maker in a new blog as an "expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative c [...]

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The robots we saw at CES 2025: The good, the bad and the completely unhinged

It was an interesting year for robots at CES 2025. While we had hoped the AI boom would bring a new wave of useful robots to the show, it seems that many robotics companies are still figuring out exac [...]

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Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 review: This is the future of kitchen knives

There’s a type of knife tech often seen in science fiction that revolves around vibrating a blade to increase its sharpness. We’ve seen examples of this in franchises like Star Wars (vibroblades), [...]

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Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking emerges as leading open source AI, outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has e [...]

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Phi-4 proves that a 'data-first' SFT methodology is the new differentiator

AI engineers often chase performance by scaling up LLM parameters and data, but the trend toward smaller, more efficient, and better-focused models has accelerated. The Phi-4 fine-tuning methodology [...]

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Arcee aims to reboot U.S. open source AI with new Trinity models released under Apache 2.0

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, [...]

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Hugging Face warns that closed-source robots threaten user control

Hugging Face is sounding the alarm about a future where robots become opaque black boxes owned by just a handful of corporations.<br /> The article Hugging Face warns that closed-source robots t [...]

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What to be thankful for in AI in 2025

Hello, dear readers. Happy belated Thanksgiving and Black Friday!This year has felt like living inside a permanent DevDay. Every week, some lab drops a new model, a new agent framework, or a new “th [...]

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Hugging Face launches Omni Chat, an AI router for open source models

Hugging Face has launched HuggingChat Omni, an AI router that selects the best open source model for each user prompt from more than 100 available models.<br /> The article Hugging Face launches [...]

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