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Hugging Face brings ‘Pi-Zero’ to LeRobot, making AI-powered robots easier to build and deploy

February 7, 2025
Hugging Face and Physical Intelligence have quietly launched Pi0 (Pi-Zero) this week, the first foundational model for robots that translates natural language commands directly into physical actions. “Pi0 is the most advanced vision language action model,” Remi Cadene, a principal research scientist at Hugging Face, announced in an X post that quickly gained attention across the AI community.
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Not every AI prompt deserves multiple seconds of thinking: how Meta is teaching models to prioritize

February 6, 2025
Reasoning models like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 have a problem: They overthink. Ask them a simple question such as “What is 1+1?” and they will think for several seconds before answering. Ideally, like humans, AI models should be able to tell when to give a direct answer and when to spend extra time and resources to reason before responding. A new technique presented by researchers at Meta AI…
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OmniHuman: ByteDance’s new AI creates realistic videos from a single photo

February 5, 2025
ByteDance researchers have developed an AI system that transforms single photographs into realistic videos of people speaking, singing and moving naturally — a breakthrough that could reshape digital entertainment and communications. The new system, called OmniHuman, generates full-body videos that show people gesturing and moving in ways that match their speech, surpassing previous AI models…
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Open-source revolution: How DeepSeek-R1 challenges OpenAI’s o1 with superior processing, cost efficiency

February 4, 2025
The AI industry is undergoing a major transformation with the arrival of DeepSeek-R1, an advanced open-source reasoning model from the Chinese startup DeepSeek. Launched on January 20, DeepSeek-R1 is positioning itself as a formidable competitor to OpenAI’s o1, delivering similar performance at a significantly lower cost. But how do DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1 compare in real-world applications?
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