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Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/next-generatio…

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-skills-training

We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
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stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4ok6Sqb

Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsofts-fara-7b-is-a-computer-u…

Cerrion, which develops AI video agents that detect and resolve production line issues in real time, raised an $18M Series A led by Creandum (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/25/cerrion-raises-18m-to-reduce-factory-downtime-wi…

Cerrion raises $18M to reduce factory downtime with AI video agents
Cerrion, the Swiss-founded AI video agent platform that detects and resolves production line issues in real time, has raised $18 million in Series A funding to further expand and scale operations in the US and Europe. The round was led by Creandum, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session VC, alongside prominent angels including Harry Stebbings (20VC), Oskar Hjertonsson, Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face) and Garret Langley (Flock Safety).Fa…