Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for HuggingFace for the week ending August 14, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A photorealistic magazine-cover still life of a tiny glossy ceramic figurine of a smiling face with two open hands centered on a vast pale dawn-white surface meeting soft misty indigo sky, lit by gentle diffused light with one thin thread of warm gold on its glaze, with the bold title text HuggingFace set large and clean in the enormous empty sky above, minimalist, quietly joyful, resolved.
This Week in HuggingFace News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning dominated the week: NVIDIA released a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, aimed at always-on agents. Artificial Analysis said it matches gpt-oss-120b performance at about a quarter of the total parameters. Weights, data and recipes are on Hugging Face.
- Fast ecosystem pickup: Ollama, vLLM, Baseten, Together AI and Perplexity's Agent API all added it quickly. Unsloth showed a 2-bit version running nonstop tool calls for 10 minutes on 22GB of VRAM.
- A busy week for open weights: Beyond Nemotron, new Hugging Face releases included Qwen3.8 (2.4T total, 95B active), MiniMax Music 3 for song generation, and Cohere's North Micro Vision for document understanding.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to HuggingFace
One day after Meta released Muse Glimmer, NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard, showing a different approach to local agentic AI. Really cool. Lightning is a 30B MoE with only 3B active parameters, distilled from Nemotron 3 Ultra and designed for the”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2087179573477650881
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Delivers Fast, Accurate Specialized Task Execution for Long-Running Agents | NVIDIA Technical Blog
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-delivers-fast-accurate-specialized-task-execution-for-long-running-agents/
to put ai progress in perspective: 9 months ago: most developers wrote code by hand now: misaligned multi-agent swarm finding and collaborating on 0-days undetected (OpenAI/hugging face) 9 months in the future likely much crazier”
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086523558940028995
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lighting is available on Ollama! It’s a 30B model made for always-on agents. All local. Claude Code ollama launch claude –model nemotron-3.5-lightning Hermes Agent ollama launch hermes –model nemotron-3.5-lightning OpenClaw ollama launch openclaw”
https://x.com/ollama/status/2087208006455111779
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning’s agentic capabilities are a step change for the Nemotron family’s small models. Its GDPval-AA v2 Elo of 824 surpasses both Nemotron 3 Super and gpt-oss-120b, while its Terminal-Bench v2.1 score of 24% is >3x Nemotron 3 Nano’s 7% and almost matches”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2087163522212045033
2-bit NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ran tool calls nonstop for 10 minutes on just 22GB of VRAM. 🤯 It cited 80+ websites, executed code & searched for 10 real-world locations. Run and train via Unsloth Desktop. GGUF:
https://t.co/PAr0nqR1CN Guide:
https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2087598047589196052
⚡ Run Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on vLLM today! Up to 4× higher throughput and 30% faster task completion… ideal for always-on agents. With vLLM’s OpenAI-compatible API, you can drop it into your agent stack and adapt it to your tools and workflows. Also great to see the model”
https://x.com/vllm_project/status/2087217150813729122
Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning⚡ An open 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, built for always-on agents to complete high-volume, specialized tasks faster. It delivers up to 4x the output speed of similar-sized models.”
https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2087162151995629926
Lightning strikes for continuous and long-run agents! Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is smart, fast, efficient and open.”
https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2087184542050496763
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is live on Baseten day 0! This is the fastest open model in its class, built for long-running agents. Compared to similar-sized open models, it offers: – 4x higher throughput – 50% lower cost – 63.4% fewer output tokens in production testing – 30B”
https://x.com/baseten/status/2087173719873446192
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now live on Together AI. The fastest open model in its class is built for always-on agents that need to complete high-volume, specialized work quickly.”
https://x.com/togethercompute/status/2087163477404041345
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning available to all developers on the Perplexity Agent API. Input: $0.0115 per 1M tokens Output: $0.17 per 1M tokens”
https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2087352727923998941
We post-trained @NVIDIAAI Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Legal Agent Bench with @trajectorylabs. Here’s what we found: 1) Post-training improved agent performance from 0% to 8.3% on held-out LAB tasks, beating both Opus 4.6 and the much larger post-trained Nemotron 3 Ultra. 2)”
https://x.com/harvey/status/2087166789876945338
Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · Hugging Face
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
MiniMax Music 3 is just out on @huggingface 🎶🎵 SoTA song generation, now open weights 🔊, a 8B LLM + 2.7B DiT that turn prompt + lyrics into full songs fits smol consumer GPUs with 🧨 diffusers or comfy model weights + app on Spaces, come play ▶️
https://x.com/multimodalart/status/2087933660490056163
this week in open source: – Muse-Glimmer-30B – LTX 2.5 – Nemotron 3.5-Lightning – Ling3.0-tiny – Qwen3.8-2.4T – LFM2.5-VL-3B – Wan2.2-Animate-2 – Cohere North-Micro-Vision and there’s more coming 🤭”
https://x.com/multimodalart/status/2087576052457513234
NVIDIA has just released the first Nemotron 3.5 model: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a highly efficient small open weights model with performance similar to gpt-oss-120b at around a quarter of the total parameters Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the successor to @nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2087163514037408085
As always, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is open and customizable. This includes weights, data and recipes. Available now on @huggingface 🤗 →”
https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2087173733823680855
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 · Hugging Face
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
Today, we’re adding another member to our model family. Meet North Micro Vision. Our smallest vision-language model yet, ideal for sophisticated document understanding. Available open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. Get the weights on @huggingface.”
https://x.com/cohere/status/2087571573947392419
Qwen3.8-Max weights just dropped on Hugging Face! 2.4T total parameters, with 95B activated. A good oss AI day.”
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2087566479558394360
„If our robot assembles electronics, then the obvious first use case is to assemble copies of itself.” My conversation with @ihorbeaver, Co-Founder & CEO of MicroFactory: 🎙️ Ep 104 | How to Train 99.9% Reliable Robots for $5 Now backed by Naval Ravikant and Hugging Face CEO”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2087162618217722048
🔗 Download Muse Glimmer on @huggingface:
https://t.co/s7Lzb8MqCG 🔗 Read the technical blog:
https://t.co/X6htFnhRbc 🔗 Find resources:”
https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/2086757850790109574
Meta is back! well done @finkd @alexandr_wang!”
https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2086760700014203090
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace | Don’t Worry About the Vase
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/what-happened-openai-and-huggingface/
Let’s go!
https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2087562019788697818
Model Genome: Fingerprinting Whether an LLM Was Trained From Scratch or Derived
https://huggingface.co/blog/mayafree/model-dna
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