Hugging Face AI Updates: July 7, 2026

1. Hugging Face Releases LeRobot v0.6.0 With World-Model Policies and New Reward Models

Hugging Face. Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0, an update focused on closing the robot learning loop through policies that predict future states, reward models for success detection, and deployment tools that turn failures into training data. The release adds five new vision-language-action models, including NVIDIA’s GR00T N1.7 and the Allen Institute’s MolmoAct2, alongside world-model policies such as VLA-JEPA and reward models like Robometer and TOPReward. It also introduces six simulation benchmarks accessible through a unified lerobot-eval CLI, FSDP support for training larger models, cloud training via Hugging Face Jobs, and roughly 40% fewer base dependencies. Source