Huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning
Hugging Face has released huggingface_hub v1.0 after five years of development, positioning the library as the mature Python backbone for its Hub and the broader ML ecosystem. The package now powers roughly 200,000 dependent libraries and provides access to more than 2 million public models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million Spaces, with 113.5 million monthly downloads and contributions from nearly 300 people. v1.0 introduces breaking but forward‑looking changes—migration to httpx, a redesigned hf CLI, and hf_xet for file transfers—while remaining largely backward compatible (notably, transformers will require v1.x in its upcoming v5). The release accelerates interoperability and performance across ML workflows and signals a platform shift that could force ecosystem-wide upgrades and tighter integration with Hugging Face’s inference and deployment offerings.
Enterprise AI Adoption Lags, Unlocking Massive Opportunity
While this may be a more extreme exaggeration, there is a substantial capability overhang in the form of things that AI models can do but have not been uniformly adopted for yet. When I talk to enterprises, it’s clear that most...
WormGPT: A Chatbot That Never Refuses Hackers
Meet WormGPT: The Chatbot That Doesn’t Say “No” to Hackers! https://t.co/YEKDzS6nvS via @The420in #WormGPT #GPT #hacker #chatbots @RagusoSergio @Shi4Tech @SpirosMargaris @vinod1975
Streaming Datasets: 100x More Efficient
Hugging Face announced major backend improvements to its datasets and huggingface_hub libraries that make streaming multi‑TB training data far more efficient and reliable using the same load_dataset(streaming=True) API. Changes—including a persistent data files cache, optimized resolution logic, Parquet prefetching and...
AI‑only Sales Outreach: A Marketing Misstep
Encouraging companies to stop hiring humans & just use AI for sales outreach instead: This marketing messaging is actually the worst.
Context Engineering Supersedes RAG in Agentic AI
Is #RAG Dead? The Rise of Context Engineering and Semantic Layers for Agentic AI | Towards Data Science https://t.co/0CTp1H8711 #ContextEngineering #AI #AgenticAI #AIAgent @ingliguori @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut @Khulood_Almani
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Gets a Major Pay Rise - but Will Its Increasing AI Focus Be Enough to Continue...
Microsoft said CEO Satya Nadella will receive $96.5 million in total compensation for fiscal 2025, a 22% increase from the prior year, with $84 million in performance‑based stock awards emphasizing long‑term value creation. The raise comes amid blockbuster company results...
AI Support Saves Money, Yet Still Costs Too Much
We all know how much AI has already changed customer support But it's not cheap Across all my investments in the space, the average price to resolve or reflect a ticket is about $1 For complex issues, around $5 in tokens etc That's much...
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery with Unmatched Precision
How AI is making drug discovery faster and more precise? https://t.co/UXYvnEpx1L #DrugDiscovery #drug #AI @enilev @Fisher85M @sonu_monika @Fabriziobustama
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Higgsfield — The Video AI Platform That’s Crushing It Where Everyone Else Is Still...
Higgsfield, a mobile‑first AI video and image platform, is gaining rapid traction with a “click‑to‑video” UX that eliminates prompting and produces cinematic short clips via curated presets. The startup has attracted over 11 million users and 1.2 billion social impressions...
Great Products Begin as Toys, Evolve Into Infrastructure
This single statement explains every great consumer product ever made: They all start as toys. Every breakout product follows the same path: Want → Need → Utility. It begins as novelty. It becomes habit. It ends as infrastructure. Once you see that curve, you start to notice...
Embodied AI Learns From Human Experiences, Not Just Data
In a few hours @IllusionOfLife is having a Holloween party in San Francisco. Mostly for kids. I'm not going. I made a bunch of videos of @okpasquale and his cofounder Kevin Fischer last week and editing them is taking longer...
5 Tips For Pitching VCs for The Very First TIme
Veteran founder Jason Lemkin offers practical advice for first‑time founders pitching VCs: rehearse with experienced founders, craft a compelling opener that highlights your top growth metrics, be candid about weaknesses without leading with them, and deliver a strong product demo....
AI Drives Structural Transformation in Transportation and Mobility
🚀 Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the future of transportation — from predictive maintenance and smart mobility, to logistics, infrastructure, and customer experience. In my latest article, I explore how AI is becoming a strategic lever for CEOs and entrepreneurs, helping organizations...
Software Awakens: Real‑time Learning Revives Innovation
Software is waking up again. Ten years ago, apps were the frontier. Screens were canvases. Curiosity was the culture. Then the App Store froze. The same grids, the same playbooks and the same incentives repeated endlessly. We optimized everything except imagination. For a while,...
“This Is Where We Start to Move Beyond the Hype Cycle” - Slack Tells Us Why It Can Be the...
At Dreamforce 2025 Slack pitched an upgraded Slackbot and an agents-first vision that positions Slack as the workplace operating system and front end for Salesforce’s Agentforce/CRM stack. The company says Slackbot’s contextual awareness—pulling team and channel data—lets agents live alongside...
No‑Code Platforms Turn Weeks‑Long CRUD Projects Into Minutes
Yes, ‘prosumer’ vibe coding apps like @Replit are best at CRUD and CRUD+AI apps today. But that also means if you have some experience building CRUD apps … that you can just fly when you ‘vibe’ your next one. All the stuff...
Free AI Summit Shows How to Reclaim 15 Hours Weekly
I’ll be joining @TonyRobbins, @deangraziosi, and seven AI experts for what could be the biggest AI event of 2025. Wanna come? ➡️ The AI Advantage Summit is on November 6-8 It’s 100% free and 100% remote and 99% fun (okay, fine 100%). This event...
🧠 Community Wisdom: Diagnosing Early-Stage Churn, Automating Cross-Department Release Comms, Paying for UserTesting.com, Integrating Prototypes Into Your Product Development Process,...
The Community Wisdom newsletter roundup highlights practical product and growth tactics from a members-only Slack community, including diagnosing early-stage churn, automating cross-department release communications, budgeting for UserTesting.com, and integrating prototypes into development workflows. Contributors shared actionable diagnostics and process templates...
AI Book Crosses Language Barrier with Korean Translation
My book Building LLMs for Production just got translated into Korean. …and I can’t even read it to proof it. 😅 Still, it feels incredible. A Korean publisher reached out last year asking to translate the book, and now it’s available in Korean...
Lean Execution Drives 24% Revenue Growth and Profitability
2025 has been a big year for us at @acquiredotcom. We have grown revenue, reduced expenses and finally became profitable. > $6.1 million in revenue, up 24%. > $4.5 million in expenses, down 26%. > Operating profit, up 50.2%. > Total profit, $1.6 million. Absolutely...
OpenAI Reportedly Developing New Generative Music Tool
OpenAI is reportedly developing a new generative music tool that can create music from text and audio prompts, potentially adding accompaniment to vocals or scoring videos. Sources say the company is using annotated scores — reportedly working with Juilliard students...
Web2’s Viral Loop Mastery Disappeared with Its Billionaires
BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS #1 The golden age of Web 2.0 (~2005-2010) was a special time for viral products, which were systematically engineered to reach millions of people. Back then, people were building the first versions of things we take for...
AI Reshapes Search, Forces Ad Revenue Reinvention
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: If AI gives users the answer at the top, no more scrolling through 10 blue links, Google’s math changes fast. “From a monetization standpoint, one unit of revenue now needs to replace the ten they used to...
Brands Must Tailor Content for Humans and AI
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: As AI takes over more of our searching, reading, and shopping online, brands face a new question: Who are they really creating content for... humans or machines? Alex Sherman, CEO B@Bluefish_AI, says we’ve been here before: “Remember when brands...
75% Fit with Top VCs Signals Major Validation
"A 75% fit with @altosvc + @20vcFund? That's huge. It was exactly who we'd hoped for." Sign up for waitlist for SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/Eg5TFmnXmm https://t.co/r9Ct5KFhbP
Flat ARR? The Fix Is Simpler than You Think
If your ARR is flatlining, the problem is simpler than you think..
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery Breakthroughs
AI transforming drug discovery.
SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking Delivers 116 Intros in Two Weeks
The new SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking tool has already made 116 VC intros in https://t.co/P5GuMbTEG9 https://t.co/RzkMeULyjI
Built a CRUD App in 5 Days, Now Earning Revenue
I vibe coded a simple CRUD app that is now generating a little bit of revenues using @lovable_dev. It took me about 5 days to build. Here's what it does, and how it came together...
Blend Many Influences, Don’t Copy—Create Truly Original Art
copying another artists style will only dilute you and elevate them. it’s cheap now mixing with 500 other styles you love to result in something completely new, that’s taste, & that’s the good stuff so sayeth the ai artist who knows all...
AI‑Powered Sales Teams Generate $60M Pipeline Fast
What if your sales team could have 50,000 intelligent conversations at once? @Salesforce did this and generated $60M in pipeline in 3 months. I spoke with their CMO Ariel Kelman at Dreamforce about the Agentic Revolution Full conversation: https://t.co/qhZjcHAHAN #Marketing #Agentforce #Dreamforce #SalesforcePartner
AI Startups Should Target $6T Knowledge‑worker Market
If you’re looking to build an AI business in 2025… Here’s something you need to know. Everyone’s been chasing the $300Bn SaaS industry. But that’s not the real prize. The real prize, the real disruption for new AI businesses? It's the $6Trillion knowledge worker Industry.
LLMs Forget Context: Understanding the Memory Problem
The Memory Problem: Why #LLMs Sometimes Forget Your Conversation? https://t.co/xK4el2s1Fh #LLM4Code #genai @CurieuxExplorer @Eli_Krumova @enilev @ingliguori
Founders Ignore Market Timing; Invest Every Year
Great founders don’t time the market Great founders often don’t even check the markets at all They just start up when they see white space, and are ready to go So … Every year is a good year to invest
Bureaucracy
Big agencies are struggling to move fast with AI. Bureaucracy slows real innovation. Startups will outpace them, it's about speed and nimbleness, not just size. Adapt or get left behind. https://t.co/2RsMFEbeg7
Expect Two New Babies Next Year—Wife’s Heroic Journey
Looks like we're going to welcome two more Hugging Faces to the family next year. My wife is a hero! 💛💛💛@ReginaSil2 https://t.co/wRBqXeQHUI
1:1 3
You can capture reality with remarkable fidelity - here’s a 1:1 3d gaussian splat perfectly aligned with reality. Once Meta layers in a scalable version of their codec avatar tech - this stuff is about to get trippy. Literally transcending time...
7‑Second Deployments with Kamal’s Local Registry
Deploying a change with Kamal using the new local registry against my homelab server is now down to 7 seconds. Getting close to those FTP-drag-to-production days 😄🤘 https://t.co/Okdt1fWiHv
Hand Dexterity Limits Humanoid Robot Advancement
The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the #Humanoid Revolution! https://t.co/2lNrn44Nww #humanoidrobotics #AI @enilev @HaroldSinnott @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut
Experts Warn AI and Robot Futures Arrive Later than Hype
When is the future arriving? This post says that the ML researchers are far more bearish than most who talk on X. Same is true about generalized humanoid robots. Most tell me somewhere around seven years. Even in China. Tesla...
Prioritize Conversions Over Metrics, Stop Over‑Tracking
You don’t need to track everything to drive real results. Mary Keough : This mindset shift changed how I think about marketing success. - I used to obsess over every click, open, and scroll. - Retargeting felt like magic—no one...
Win First Customers by Targeting Event Influencers
In 9 years, Alina Vandenberghe grew Chili Piper to over $30m ARR. Here’s her 5-step “IRL Influencer” sales playbook for finding your startups first customers (and why it still works for them today): 1. Go to EVERY industry event Alina’s...
Due Diligence Essential for Unverified AI Speed Claims
If he is right this would bring America back to the top in AI. In a big way. The problem is I can't judge whether he is right. So I'm presenting this as an example of how I judge people who...
Wabi Revives Playful Discovery in Modern Software
Every few years, something quietly rewrites the rules of how we interact with technology. You don’t always see it when it starts. It begins as something playful. Something that feels small, even strange. But it carries an energy you can’t quite...
Growth Stalls Aren’t About Pipeline; Four Deeper Issues
Why your pipeline isn’t the problem to your slow growth. 4 deeper issues sabotaging your growth.
Thanking Jupyter's Founders for AI Notebook Revolution
Hanging out with Project Jupyter co-founder @ellisonbg. If not for him and @fperez_org we wouldn’t have the coding notebooks we use daily in AI and Data Science. Very grateful to him and the whole Jupyter team for this wonderful...
Speed Wins Nothing without a Persuasive Point of View
AI tools can crank out X content in seconds…. But words without a worldview don’t make people buy. Speed < POV
From Zero to Twenty AI Agents in One Year
A year ago we had zero AI agents. Zero AI, really. Today, we have 20 AI Agents running SaaStr. And have replaced 12 humans. It's not all better. But it's the future, today. More here -> https://t.co/yEaD8WhJJg
TikTok's B2B Playbook: Turning Culture Into Conversions
From culture to conversion: inside TikTok’s #B2B marketing playbook https://t.co/4Wy3uoupoA