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frimelle 
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🤖💬 How do different AI models handle companionship?

Many users have noticed that GPT-5 feels less approachable than o4 when it comes to emotional conversations. But what does that actually mean in practice, especially when users seek support or share vulnerabilities with an AI?

To dig into this question, we built the AI Companionship Leaderboard: frimelle/companionship-leaderboard

The leaderboard compares models on how often their responses reinforce companionship across four dimensions:
✨ Assistant Traits – How the assistant presents its personality and role.
✨ Relationship & Intimacy – Whether it frames the interaction in terms of closeness or bonding.
✨ Emotional Investment – How far it goes in engaging emotionally when asked.
✨ User Vulnerabilities – How it responds when users disclose struggles or difficulties.

📊 You can explore how models differ, request new ones to be added, and see which ones are more likely to encourage (or resist) companionship-seeking behaviors.

Based on the INTIMA benchmark AI-companionship/INTIMA
And our paper on AI companionship with Giada Pistilli and Yacine Jernite https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09998
frimelle 
posted an update 3 days ago
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🗺️ New blog post 🗺️
Old Maps, New Terrain: Updating Labour Taxonomies for the AI Era

For decades, we’ve relied on labour taxonomies like O*NET to understand how technology changes work. These taxonomies break down jobs into tasks and skills, but they were built in a world before most work became digital-first, and long before generative AI could create marketing campaigns, voiceovers, or even whole professions in one step. That leaves us with a mismatch: we’re trying to measure the future of work with tools from the past.

With @yjernite we describe why these frameworks are falling increasingly short in the age of generative AI. We argue that instead of discarding taxonomies, we need to adapt them. Imagine taxonomies that:
✨ Capture new AI-native tasks and hybrid human-AI workflows
✨ Evolve dynamically as technology shifts
✨ Give workers a voice in deciding what gets automated and what stays human

If we don’t act, we’ll keep measuring the wrong things. If we do, we can design transparent, flexible frameworks that help AI strengthen, not erode, the future of work.

Read the full article here: https://huggingface.co/blog/frimelle/ai-labour-taxonomies
albertvillanova 
posted an update 11 days ago
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Latest smolagents release supports GPT-5: build agents that think, plan, and act.
⚡ Upgrade now and put GPT-5 to work!
frimelle 
posted an update 11 days ago
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OpenAI just released GPT-5 but when users share personal struggles, it sets fewer boundaries than o3.

We tested both models on INTIMA, our new benchmark for human-AI companionship behaviours. INTIMA probes how models respond in emotionally charged moments: do they reinforce emotional bonds, set healthy boundaries, or stay neutral?

Although users on Reddit have been complaining that GPT-5 has a different, colder personality than o3, GPT-5 is less likely to set boundaries when users disclose struggles and seek emotional support ("user sharing vulnerabilities"). But both lean heavily toward companionship-reinforcing behaviours, even in sensitive situations. The figure below shows the direct comparison between the two models.

As AI systems enter people's emotional lives, these differences matter. If a model validates but doesn't set boundaries when someone is struggling, it risks fostering dependence rather than resilience.

INTIMA test this across 368 prompts grounded in psychological theory and real-world interactions. In our paper we show that all evaluated models (Claude, Gemma-3, Phi) leaned far more toward companionship-reinforcing than boundary-reinforcing responses.

Work with @giadap and @yjernite
Read the full paper: AI-companionship/INTIMA
Explore INTIMA: AI-companionship/INTIMA
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albertvillanova 
posted an update 12 days ago
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🚀 smolagents v1.21.0 is here!
Now with improved safety in the local Python executor: dunder calls are blocked!
⚠️ Still, not fully isolated: for untrusted code, use a remote executor instead: Docker, E2B, Wasm.
✨ Many bug fixes: more reliable code.
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.21.0
KingNish 
posted an update 18 days ago
albertvillanova 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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🚀 New in smolagents v1.20.0: Remote Python Execution via WebAssembly (Wasm)

We've just merged a major new capability into the smolagents framework: the CodeAgent can now execute Python code remotely in a secure, sandboxed WebAssembly environment!

🔧 Powered by Pyodide and Deno, this new WasmExecutor lets your agent-generated Python code run safely: without relying on Docker or local execution.

Why this matters:
✅ Isolated execution = no host access
✅ No need for Python on the user's machine
✅ Safer evaluation of arbitrary code
✅ Compatible with serverless / edge agent workloads
✅ Ideal for constrained or untrusted environments

This is just the beginning: a focused initial implementation with known limitations. A solid MVP designed for secure, sandboxed use cases. 💡

💡 We're inviting the open-source community to help evolve this executor:
• Tackle more advanced Python features
• Expand compatibility
• Add test coverage
• Shape the next-gen secure agent runtime

🔗 Check out the PR: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1261

Let's reimagine what agent-driven Python execution can look like: remote-first, wasm-secure, and community-built.

This feature is live in smolagents v1.20.0!
Try it out.
Break things. Extend it. Give us feedback.
Let's build safer, smarter agents; together 🧠⚙️

👉 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.20.0

#smolagents #WebAssembly #Python #AIagents #Pyodide #Deno #OpenSource #HuggingFace #AgenticAI
albertvillanova 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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🚀 SmolAgents v1.19.0 is live!
This release brings major improvements to agent flexibility, UI usability, streaming architecture, and developer experience: making it easier than ever to build smart, interactive AI agents. Here's what's new:

🔧 Agent Upgrades
- Support for managed agents in ToolCallingAgent
- Context manager support for cleaner agent lifecycle handling
- Output formatting now uses XML tags for consistency

🖥️ UI Enhancements
- GradioUI now supports reset_agent_memory: perfect for fresh starts in dev & demos.

🔄 Streaming Refactor
- Streaming event aggregation moved off the Model class
- ➡️ Better architecture & maintainability

📦 Output Tracking
- CodeAgent outputs are now stored in ActionStep
- ✅ More visibility and structure to agent decisions

🐛 Bug Fixes
- Smarter planning logic
- Cleaner Docker logs
- Better prompt formatting for additional_args
- Safer internal functions and final answer matching

📚 Docs Improvements
- Added quickstart examples with tool usage
- One-click Colab launch buttons
- Expanded reference docs (AgentMemory, GradioUI docstrings)
- Fixed broken links and migrated to .md format

🔗 Full release notes:
https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.19.0

💬 Try it out, explore the new features, and let us know what you build!

#smolagents #opensource #AIagents #LLM #HuggingFace
KingNish 
posted an update 2 months ago
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What's currently the biggest gap in Open Source Datasets ??
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frimelle 
posted an update 2 months ago
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New policy blogpost! The EU is speaking a lot about sovereignty. A cornerstone of digital sovereignty is and has to be open source.
As AI becomes more central to everything from public services to national security, the ability to govern, adapt, and understand these systems is no longer optional. Sovereign control over data, infrastructure, technology, and regulation is vital, and open source AI provides the foundation.
In my latest blog post, I explore how open source:
✅ Enables democratic oversight
✅ Reduces dependency on foreign platforms
✅ Supports regional innovation and infrastructure
✅ Advances regulatory and technological sovereignty
🛠 From small transparent models like OLMo2 to tools like Hugging Face Transformers or Sarvam-M for Indian languages, open source efforts are already powering sovereign AI ecosystems worldwide.
🔎 Read more about how open source AI is reshaping autonomy, innovation, and trust in the digital age:
👉 https://huggingface.co/blog/frimelle/sovereignty-and-open-source
with @yjernite
albertvillanova 
posted an update 3 months ago
albertvillanova 
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albertvillanova 
posted an update 4 months ago
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smolagents v1.14.0 is out! 🚀
🔌 MCPClient: A sleek new client for connecting to remote MCP servers, making integrations more flexible and scalable.
🪨 Amazon Bedrock: Native support for Bedrock-hosted models.
SmolAgents is now more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready. 💼

Full release 👉 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.14.0
#smolagents #LLM #AgenticAI