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Announcing the 🤗 AI Research Residency Program

Hugging Face Blog 22 March 2022, 00:00

Hugging Face launched a 9-month AI Research Residency Program for machine learning researchers to work on self-selected projects alongside the company's science team with the goal of publishing results. The program is full-time only, fully remote, and application deadlines closed on April 3rd, 2022. Successful residents receive benefits including medical coverage and work on research projects designed to have positive societal impact.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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