Julien Chaumond
@julien_c
Co-founder and CTO at @huggingface 🤗. ML/AI for everyone, building products to propel communities fwd. @Stanford + @Polytechnique
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To this day I still don't understand why there is no ChatGPT or Claude or any other voice app on the Apple Watch, even though it looks like the perfect form factor.
Friday project:
Readable rewrite of the hardware-detection module behind @midudev's canirun-ai. Same heuristics, shaders & spec tables — just descriptive names + JSDoc.
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you friday reminder to `hf update` ⤵️
lance for robotics ? 👀
My data point: working on two projects in parallel with Pi + llama.cpp + Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B (I prefer the MoE 🙈)
This works on my M1 Max (64 GB), which I bought 4.5 years ago. "Works" as in "you can get work done", not just "runs for a demo".
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🆕 Hugging Face 🤝 Hermes Agent 🔥
> we added Hermes Agent to local apps: run it locally with any compatible GGUF/MLX model
> shipped native traces support for Hermes Agent: visualize your Hermes traces directly on the Hub
Very soon most agents will run locally and we want to accelerate things as much as we can ⚔️
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Following @julien_c’s tweet I bought a MacBook Pro with 128B unified memory, and started running Qwen3.6 as my daily driver. It’s baffling.
Apple outsmarted everyone in this industry.
Weekend project:
A tiny CLI extension to measure your download speeds from the HF CDN ⚡️
How to run it:
hf extensions install julien-c/hf-speedtest
hf speedtest
If you run it, share your output here ⤵️
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The unelected technocratic super-structure sitting above the nation I’m a citizen of., calling me a tinfoil hat 👌
I should not believe my own eyes that there is no growth, high taxes, crazy regulations 👌👌
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The battle of narratives is going strong.
Our countries are a recurring target.
It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story!
Protect what matters - our democracy.
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As Angel investor I get the right to mow the lawn using a mini tractor
Starting a company in a garage is boring so we started @dottxtai in a French castle instead
Anyone else anxiously waiting for this to drop?
Stopped by the @huggingface Paris office during GOSIM.
Lowkey for the open-source AI leader — hidden in the city center. People writing code wherever they feel like sitting.
🤗 keeps shipping the best open work. This vibe is half the answer.
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it's 2026 and there's still not a keyboard shortcut to hide whitespace on GitHub
Last week, we had a very playful but yet efficient off-site between @huggingface and @ggml_org . We brainstormed many UI/UX related subjects, many more to tackle in near future!
It's a pleasure to meet everyone IRL and visit the beautiful capital of Bulgaria 🌹
@julien_c @victormustar @ggerganov and Alek
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Some company names are still available if you need some.
Quick, it won’t last long!!
Therapist: linear neolabs are not real, they cannot hurt you.
me:
YC Bench by @CollinearAI:
Benchmark for Agents who play CEO of an AI startup for 1 simulated year via CLI tool use against a deterministic discrete-event simulation.
Score = final $$ amount achieved
by @nazneenrajani and team
Also a good opportunity to showcase this recent hf command ⬇️
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