IBM Granite 4.0 1B Speech Tops OpenASR Leaderboard
IBM's new 1B-parameter speech model claims the top spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard while running on consumer hardware, beating Whisper Large V3 by 25% on word error rate.
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16 Open-Source RL Libraries, One Shared GPU Bottleneck
A Hugging Face survey of 16 open-source reinforcement learning libraries finds the entire ecosystem has converged on async disaggregated training to fix a single brutal bottleneck: GPU idle time during long rollouts.
LeRobot v0.5.0: First Humanoid, 10x Training Speed
Hugging Face ships its largest LeRobot update yet: Unitree G1 humanoid support, Pi0-FAST VLA, Real-Time Chunking, 10x faster image training, and PEFT/LoRA fine-tuning for large robot policies.
Hugging Face Launches Storage Buckets for ML Artifacts
Hugging Face introduced Storage Buckets, mutable S3-like object storage built on Xet deduplication for ML checkpoints, logs, and artifacts - starting at $8/TB/month at volume.
Karpathy's Autoresearch Runs 100 ML Experiments Overnight
Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.
NVIDIA NemoClaw: Enterprise AI Agents Without Lock-In
NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform that runs on any hardware, with a formal reveal expected at GTC 2026 on March 16.
