🤷 Nico Martin

Building Transformers.js at 🤗 @huggingface // @GoogleDevExpert for #WebTechnologies and #AI

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

CEE's biggest tech conference...
...also: Bucharest is great.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking at @DevTalksRo, the largest tech conference in Central and Eastern Europe, and honestly, it showed.

The expo floor alone was something else: from Google all the way to students showcasing their own robot projects. That range of scale, from industry giants to the next generation of builders, is exactly what a healthy tech community looks like.

I didn't get to see as many talks as I would have liked: my morning was taken up by my own session, where I walked through the story behind my in-browser Jarvis and the ideas that shaped it. In the afternoon I got to go even deeper in a roundtable workshop, diving hands-on into the agent loop with the participants.

Both were a blast.

What I didn't expect was how much Bucharest had to offer. A charming old town, the striking architecture of the communist era, and a very much alive modern city vibe. Definitely underrated.

Great connections, great energy, great city. Thanks for having me, DevTalks🫶 🙌

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

Comment of the week😄
I mean, is he wrong?

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

Exciting week ahead🤩.
ZRH ✈️ OTP
Talk and Workshop at @DevTalksRo
OTP ✈️ ZRH ✈️ OSL
Talk at @ReactNorway
❤️

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

As a YouTube newbie, I’m not really up to speed on this yet. But apparently I need more eye-catching thumbnails. What do you think of @xenovacom's definitely not AI generated suggestion? 😄

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

@fortysevenfx Happy Birthday, François!

[React Norway 🗓 June 5th, 2026! @ReactNorway]

Building advanced AI features usually means dealing with heavy cloud APIs, server latency, and complex infrastructure—not to mention privacy concerns.

Discover how to break free from the cloud when @nicodotdev, Machine Learning Engineer at @huggingface , demonstrates how to build multimodal AI agents that handle voice, images, and memory entirely in the browser.

Ready to see how far the web has come? Join us at React Norway on June 5th! 🎸

👉 https://t.co/hzmBf9plWX

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

I don't know which is crazier: diffusion models in Transformers.js or 1-bit and ternary weights?! It's just wild! 🤯

[Xenova @xenovacom]

WTF?! This changes image generation forever! 🤯 PrismML just released Binary and Ternary Bonsai Image 4B!

That's right, 1-bit diffusion models are here. Only ~3GB in size (FLUX.2 Klein 4B is 16GB).

The most shocking part? It can run 100% locally in your browser. Try it now! 👇

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

Everything you always wanted to know about Transformers.js, in one video.

I made a deep dive into how AI models run from JavaScript: tensors, ONNX, quantization, `pipeline()`, WebGPU/WASM, preprocessing, postprocessing, and what happens under the hood.

Watch: https://t.co/mr8VllAZjQ

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

@fortysevenfx @pkuhar Yes! Thats amazing🤩

[Xenova @xenovacom]

Transformers.js and Reachy Mini were featured on stage at Google I/O 2026! 🤯

Huge thanks to @IanBallantyne and the @GoogleDeepMind team for the shout-out! 🤗

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

While @xenovacom and I were distracted by Google I/O, 🤗 Transformers.js quietly crossed 1'000'000 weekly downloads 🤯.

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

Made it to Google I/O 😊

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

Pretty wild.. I am 10km above Greenland while @googlegemma 4 26b on llama.cpp connected to PI is helping me edit my video at 50tps 🤯

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

@ben_burtenshaw 😄

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

On my way to San Francisco🤩.
First time in California. First time in Silicon Valley. And I'm going for Google I/O. 🤯
Also I recently started a new instagram channel. So if you want the unfiltered version, follow along👇😊

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

@tpiros Thanks🤗

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

All the things I can't fit in a tweet:
https://t.co/zK0VhHaXqU

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

It’s difficult to give a general answer here. As well as the hardware (which should actually be quite good on the iPhone), the browser engine always plays a part too. And unfortunately, it’s a fact that WebKit/Safari aren’t the quickest to implement new features.
But I’d need to test it more thoroughly to see if that’s really the reason.

But to answer your actual question (and @artus9033, correct me if I’m wrong), Transformers.js in React Native is still very much in the experimental stage. So I wouldn’t rely on it fully just yet, but we should definitely keep an eye on how things develop😊

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

Transformers.js in React Native🫶
Its so amazing to see the community grow🤗

[Artur Morys-Magiera @artus9033]

Gemma 4 E2B running locally with ONNX RN & transformers.js - all that in React Native

Cooking something new... 🍳

[🤷 Nico Martin @nicodotdev]

@firt 🙋