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victor 
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tomaarsen 
posted an update 8 days ago
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🐦‍🔥 I've just published Sentence Transformers v5.2.0! It introduces multi-processing for CrossEncoder (rerankers), multilingual NanoBEIR evaluators, similarity score outputs in mine_hard_negatives, Transformers v5 support and more. Details:

- CrossEncoder multi-processing: Similar to SentenceTransformer and SparseEncoder, you can now use multi-processing with CrossEncoder rerankers. Useful for multi-GPU and CPU settings, and simple to configure: just device=["cuda:0", "cuda:1"] or device=["cpu"]*4 on the model.predict or model.rank calls.

- Multilingual NanoBEIR Support: You can now use community translations of the tiny NanoBEIR retrieval benchmark instead of only the English one, by passing dataset_id, e.g. dataset_id="lightonai/NanoBEIR-de" for the German benchmark.

- Similarity scores in Hard Negatives Mining: When mining for hard negatives to create a strong training dataset, you can now pass output_scores=True to get similarity scores returned. This can be useful for some distillation losses!

- Transformers v5: This release works with both Transformers v4 and the upcoming v5. In the future, Sentence Transformers will only work with Transformers v5, but not yet!

- Python 3.9 deprecation: Now that Python 3.9 has lost security support, Sentence Transformers no longer supports it.

Check out the full changelog for more details: https://github.com/huggingface/sentence-transformers/releases/tag/v5.2.0

I'm quite excited about what's coming. There's a huge draft PR with a notable refactor in the works that should bring some exciting support. Specifically, better multimodality, rerankers, and perhaps some late interaction in the future!
lunarflu 
posted an update about 1 month ago
lunarflu 
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lunarflu 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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abidlabs 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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Why I think local, open-source models will eventually win.

The most useful AI applications are moving toward multi-turn agentic behavior: systems that take hundreds or even thousands of iterative steps to complete a task, e.g. Claude Code, computer-control agents that click, type, and test repeatedly.

In these cases, the power of the model is not how smart it is per token, but in how quickly it can interact with its environment and tools across many steps. In that regime, model quality becomes secondary to latency.

An open-source model that can call tools quickly, check that the right thing was clicked, or verify that a code change actually passes tests can easily outperform a slightly “smarter” closed model that has to make remote API calls for every move.

Eventually, the balance tips: it becomes impractical for an agent to rely on remote inference for every micro-action. Just as no one would tolerate a keyboard that required a network request per keystroke, users won’t accept agent workflows bottlenecked by latency. All devices will ship with local, open-source models that are “good enough” and the expectation will shift toward everything running locally. It’ll happen sooner than most people think.
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pagezyhf 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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🚀 Big news for AI builders!

We’re thrilled to announce that the Qwen3-VL family of vision-language models is now available on Azure AI Foundry, thanks to our collaboration with Microsoft.

We bring open-source innovation to enterprise-grade AI infrastructure, making it easier than ever for enterprise to deploy and scale the latest and greatest from models from hugging Face securely within Azure.

🔍 Highlights:

- Deploy Qwen3-VL instantly via managed endpoints
- Built-in governance, telemetry, and lifecycle management
- True multimodal reasoning — vision, language, and code understanding
- State-of-the-art performance, outperforming closed-source models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5
- Available in both *Instruct* and *Thinking* modes, across 24 model sizes

👉 Get started today: search for Qwen3-VL in the Hugging Face Collection on Azure AI Foundry.
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