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What if AI becomes as ubiquitous as the internet, but runs locally and transparently on our devices?

Fascinating TED talk by @thomwolf on open source AI and its future impact.

Imagine this for AI: instead of black box models running in distant data centers, we get transparent AI that runs locally on our phones and laptops, often without needing internet access. If the original team moves on? No problem - resilience is one of the beauties of open source. Anyone (companies, collectives, or individuals) can adapt and fix these models.

This is a compelling vision of AI's future that solves many of today's concerns around AI transparency and centralized control.

Watch the full talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_wolf_what_if_ai_just_works
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Is this the best tool to extract clean info from PDFs, handwriting and complex documents yet?

Open source olmOCR just dropped and the results are impressive.

Tested the free demo with various documents, including a handwritten Claes Oldenburg letter. The speed is impressive: 3000 tokens/second on your own GPU - that's 1/32 the cost of GPT-4o ($190/million pages). Game-changer for content extraction and digital archives.

To achieve this, Ai2 trained a 7B vision language model on 260K pages from 100K PDFs using "document anchoring" - combining PDF metadata with page images.

Best part: it actually understands document structure (columns, tables, equations) instead of just jumbling everything together like most OCR tools. Their human eval results back this up.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Try the demo: https://olmocr.allenai.org

Going right into the AI toolkit: JournalistsonHF/ai-toolkit
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FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python

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๐Ÿš€ Just launched: A toolkit of 20 powerful AI tools that journalists can use right now - transcribe, analyze, create. 100% free & open-source.

Been testing all these tools myself and created a searchable collection of the most practical ones - from audio transcription to image generation to document analysis. No coding needed, no expensive subscriptions.

Some highlights I've tested personally:
- Private, on-device transcription with speaker ID in 100+ languages using Whisper
- Website scraping that just works - paste a URL, get structured data
- Local image editing with tools like Finegrain (impressive results)
- Document chat using Qwen 2.5 72B (handles technical papers well)

Sharing this early because the best tools come from the community. Drop your favorite tools in the comments or join the discussion on what to add next!

๐Ÿ‘‰ JournalistsonHF/ai-toolkit
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SigLIP 2: A better multilingual vision language encoder

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