Startups
Smallest.ai lands $13M to make voice agents that actually interrupt you
TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
Most AI voice agents still sound like they're buffering their personality. Smallest.ai, a startup founded in late 2024,...
Topic: small-models
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IBM's 3B Granite Vision model beats much larger rivals at reading charts
Hugging Face Blog · Mar 31, 2026 · 2 min read
IBM just dropped a small but surprisingly sharp vision-language model called Granite 4.0 3B Vision, and it punches way...
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MoE, Tiny Models, and Domestic Chips: China's Open-Source AI Playbook After DeepSeek
Hugging Face Blog · Jan 27, 2026 · 2 min read
The open-source flood that followed DeepSeek's breakthrough in January 2025 wasn't just about bigger models. It forced...
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AI’s new Swiss Army knives: VLMs are now reasoning, talking, and running on phones
Hugging Face Blog · May 12, 2025 · 2 min read
The vision language model space has gotten weird — in the best way. When we last checked in on VLMs in April 2024, LLaV...
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Hugging Face shrinks video AI to 256M params — and it actually works
Hugging Face Blog · Feb 20, 2025 · 2 min read
Hugging Face just dropped a family of video-understanding models so small you can run them on a phone, and they're not...
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SmolVLM packs video analysis and 16x faster throughput into a 2B model
Hugging Face Blog · Nov 26, 2024 · 2 min read
The race to build smaller, cheaper multimodal models just got a serious new contender. Hugging Face has dropped SmolVLM...