Hugging Face

Hugging Face has launched ML Intern, a chatbot-based AI assistant that searches the Hub, GitHub, and the web to find models and datasets, then trains and monitors ML experiments autonomously within a user-approved budget. One demo run reportedly took six hours and cost under $0.50.

Hugging Face's transformers v5.16.1 release adds support for GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B total-parameter (18B active) multimodal mixture-of-experts model. Zhipu AI claims it outperforms GLM-5.2 while approaching Claude Opus 4.8 on coding and agentic benchmarks at one-tenth the cost.