TranslateGemma 4B by Google now runs 100% in your browser on WebGPU with Transformers.js v4. 55 languages. No server. No data leaks. Works offline. A 4B parameter translation powerhouse, right in your browser. Try the demo 👇

Exciting news: this year I'm joining the organizing team of @uphillconf for the first time! 🎉 For the past two years, I've had the opportunity to give a talk, and each time it was a fantastic experience. That's why I decided to actively participate in the planning this year😊

I've seen several posts lately that share some edge cases in AI conversations where the AI makes mistakes. Of course, this is to show how bad AI still is. AI is a tool. If it produces incorrect or unusable results, it is not the tool that is at blame, but the person who is using it incorrectly..

🤗 Transformers.js v4 preview is now available! npm i @huggingface/transformers@next And its huuuuge! I don't think a single line of code remained untouched😄. New build system, monorepo structure, and tons of new features!

We rearranged our apartment a bit and I had to move my office. A good time for some new paint and a few new plants🥰.

Over the Christmas holidays, I built three apps to replace my Google Sheets workflows: - 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸: A budget tracker that imports bank transactions and allows us to categorize them - 𝗣𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹: A gym tracker - 𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀: A daily habit tracker

Definitely not an easy post to write. A friend of mine died in an avalanche a few days ago. He was a professional snowboarder who knew the mountains intimately.

🚀 Transformers.js v4 update: We've migrated from webpack to esbuild. Results: - Build time: 2s → <200ms (10x faster) - Bundle size: 10-50% smaller Sometimes it's not about new features. It's about building a more robust architecture that makes everything else possible🔥. github.com/huggingface/...

Happy new year🍾

Passkeys aren't just more secure because of the tech, but also because of UX. Normally I would max out session tokens to avoid typing email/pw. Now with passkeys? Login is one click. Reauthenticate every time? Absolutely no problem..

I made myself a little Christmas present: a workout tracker that runs 100% offline in your browser. I's built entirely with Claude Code, zero manual coding, just conversations. Every component, every database query, even the deployment config. pumpel.nico.dev

Last week Google released FunctionGemma, a tiny open model for tool calling. And of course it does work in Transformers.js🔥! The remarkable part? This example uses the q4 variant, which only works because it's fine-tuned (locally) to the specific functions!

This is a todo app. BUT, it was entirely coded by Qwen3 Coder 30B running locally via LM Studio on my Mac M3. All within Claude Code. One prompt, done. No cloud. No API costs. Just a really good 30B model and agentic coding.

Are there any #WebAI people around edinburgh?

I'm pretty stoked to release a little side-project. The Language Model Polyfill, a cross platform polyfill for the Prompt API based on Transformers.js and the Qwen3-4B model: github.com/nico-martin/...

Can we take a moment to appreciate how good the Islands theme looks in @jetbrains.com 2025.3? The design team absolutely nailed it🥰

After an incredible year of conferences, I'm looking at 2026 with a fresh slate✨. Which conferences should be on my radar? Always happy to connect with organizers! I love creating and speaking about hands-on demos around WebML, Transformers.js, and bringing AI to browsers.

Did you know that you can use Transformers.js with the @vercel.com AI SDK? Huuuge shout out to www.jakobhoeg.dev for building an on-device AI provider! github.com/jakobhoeg/bu...

Hello London, nice to be back😊 Somehow, in recent years, it has turned out that the last conference of the year has almost always been in London🇬🇧. Really looking forward to @reactadvanced.gitnation.org! Workshop tomorrow, conference on Friday😊

#WebGPU is now supported in all major browsers! 🎉 web.dev/blog/webgpu-...

👀 I am working on something pretty cool.. Hopefully, it will soon be possible to try #Apertus 🇨🇭 directly in your browser, powered by Transformers.js 🎉

🎉 Transformers.js v3.8.0 is out! ✨ What's new: - EdgeTAM support added - Supertonic TTS support added - SAM2/SAM3 support added 🔧 What's fixed: - add_prefix_space=true for metaspace pretokenizer (backwards compatibility) - small typo fix in ImageProcessor

Full house today at code.talks 🤗

📢 New blog post! Running Node.js 🐢🚀 in a Hugging Face 🤗 Space: blog.tomayac.com/2025/11/03/r... I found out about Hugging Face Spaces and that it supports Docker, which allowed me to create an evergreen template for running Node.js in a Hugging Face Space.

My office on wheels for today👷. Sometimes it's hard to leave the snow-covered mountains. But for the @programmier.bar, I'm happy to do so!😊 Soon at #ProgrammierCon

🎉 Transformers.js v3.7.6 is out! ✨ What's new: - NanoChat (by @karpathy.bsky.social) support added - Parakeet CTC (by Nvidia) support added 🔧 What's fixed: - Fixed temperature=0 with do_sample=true - Type error fixes

@nico.dev learning us how to build K.I.T.T. with Javascript.

My talk from @nordicjs.com is available on youtube🤗

"the early bird catches the worm" - lets hope I'm the bird and not the worm😅. Soon at #DevfestNantes @gdgnantes.bsky.social 🤗

Back from @nordicjs.com, there are many, many impressions to process. It was my first time at @nordicjs.com. In fact, it was my first time in Stockholm or even Sweden. But it certainly won't be my last!

Don't worry. I won't be posting every PR here. But yesterday, my first PR was merged into Transformers.js 🎉🥳. The first of many😊. Its not huge, but it solves a problem I faced myself when setting the temperature to 0 when working with LLMs. github.com/huggingface/...

Thank you @nordicjs.com! It was so cool to be part of this amazing conference! In case you haven't been able to scan the qr code for my slides, you find them here: slides.nico.dev/251002-no-ha...

Looks like my first day at @hf.co will mainly consist of traveling. Soon in Stockholm and ready for @nordicjs.com 😍

Do you remember #Jarvis, the AI Assistant from Iron Man? I just built one entirely in #JavaScript as an #MCP-Client powered by #TransformersJS. It's a local-first assistant that runs completely in the browser on your machine. No API calls, no cloud dependency!

Nico Martin @nico.dev, Machine Learning Engineer at @hf.co & GDE in AI + Web, is joining Nordic.js! His talk “Look ma, no hands! Multimodal AI-Agents in the Browser” shows how real AI runs client-side. No cloud, no install. 🚀

Awesome Conference in an awesome City. What more could you ask for? 😍

The #CFP for #ReactParis is online. I have had the honor of speaking twice, and both times were unforgettable. The conference is superbly organized, the audience is fantastic, and the speaker activities surrounding it were amazing every time! 👇

Had this on my list for quite some time: installing #Linux on one of my old laptops. So here we go. #Omarchy on my 10y+ Lenovo Thinkpad. Before it was suuuper slow and barely usable with Windows 10, now its actually quite nice😊

In one of my #WebAI demos I switched from React to @preactjs.com. That means around 40KB less to download. Instead of 7'131'943 KB its now just 7'131'903 KB 🎉. Follow me for more performance tips!

I built a small #MCP wrapper around the #JokeAPI so AI Agents can finally be funny! github.com/nico-martin/...

Tomorrow I will be at #BärnerJSTalks and show a few updates on KITT. For example, with #TransformersJS I have reduced the initial response time from about 8sec to just one second! www.meetup.com/barner-js-ta...

Made it! My goal was <60min. Ended up with 55:48 and I think I could have pushed myself a bit harder. Anyways, I'm super proud of the journey😊💪

It's out! I'll be speaking at @nordicjs.com 🎉

Later this year, programmier.con will take place in Bad Nauheim for the first time. The event is being organized by @programmier.bar one of my favorite podcasts! And I'm extremely excited to be a part of it! www.programmier.bar/konferenzen/...

Small LLMs (like in this case #Qwen3 4b) can be tricky to work with. Some times you just need to be persistent. Very persistent.

Yesterday I did my first full 10k. At 6'15. One month to go and I'm pretty confident😊

Sometimes I feel bad for my non-developer friends. They will never experience the satisfaction of refactoring a junk of poorly typed JavaScript (FlowJS) to TypeScript🤤

Beyond happy to announce that I'm joining 🤗 @hf.co as a #MachineLearningEngineer focused on #WebML!

My goal is <60min. And I think that is possible. I usually do a similar route. Between 6 and 9km. And my pace is progressing quite a bit over the last weeks: 7'17 7'32 6'29 6'44 6'20 6'10

Does anyone here know anyone from @anthropic.com? I've built a streamable HTTP #MCP server. Everything works perfectly in the MCP Inspector. But I cant use it in #claude. It just wont find the tools.. memory-mcp.nico.dev/mcp