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Hugging Face releases Inkling multimodal model in Transformers v5.14.0

Hugging Face has released version 5.14.0 of its Transformers library, introducing the Inkling multimodal model. Inkling, developed by Thinking Machines, is a 975B parameter model capable of processing text, image, and audio inputs to generate text outputs. The release also includes updates to the TIPSv2 model, performance enhancements, and various bug fixes related to generation, caching, and kernel operations. Version 5.14.1 was subsequently released to address specific issues with assisted generation and prefill operations. AI

IMPACT Adds a new multimodal model to the Hugging Face ecosystem, enabling developers to build more versatile AI applications.

RANK_REASON This is a software library release with new model additions and bug fixes, not a frontier model release from a primary lab.

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Hugging Face releases Inkling multimodal model in Transformers v5.14.0

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  1. Transformers — Releases TIER_1 English(EN) · Cyrilvallez ·

    Patch release: v5.14.1

    <h1>Patch release v5.14.1</h1> <p>This patch solves a few issues which appeared when integrating Inkling model, most notably an issue affecting models using EncoderDecoderCache during assisted generation. It also fixes an issue that could appear during prefill with StaticCache an…

  2. Transformers — Releases TIER_1 (SL) · ArthurZucker ·

    Release v5.14.0

    <h1>Release v5.14.0</h1> <h2>New Model additions</h2> <h3>Inkling (fresh from Thinking Machines): 975B total, 41B active</h3> <ul> <li>Add Inkling model <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/47347">#47347</a> by <a class="user-…