Hugging Face ml-intern: Open-Source AI Agent Beats Claude Code on Scientific Reasoning
Hugging Face just shipped something that deserves more attention than it’s gotten: an open-source AI agent that automates the entire LLM post-training workflow — and on scientific reasoning benchmarks, it’s already outperforming Anthropic’s Claude Code. Meet ml-intern. What ml-intern Actually Does Built on Hugging Face’s smolagents framework, ml-intern operates as a continuous autonomous loop that mirrors how an ML researcher actually works. It doesn’t just run scripts — it thinks through the problem iteratively: ...