nico.dev
Machine learning engineer

Hello, my name
is Nico.

I am an open source machine learning engineer with focus on WebML at Hugging Face and Google Developer Expert in AI and web technologies, from Switzerland.

Nico Martin

About me

WebML at Hugging Face, Google Developer Expert, and a few years of conference stages behind me. The long version, plus what came before.

Who I am

Talks

AI agents in the browser, K.I.T.T. in JavaScript, robots over Bluetooth, ... Every one with on-device live demos along the way.

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What's up

Side projects, articles, videos, pictures and podcast appearances. Whatever I am currently building and exploring.

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Where you can catch me

Over the past few years, I’ve spoken at conferences and meetups across Europe, meeting brilliant people and happily nerding out about what browsers can do.

What's new

Latest things I've done

Everything I'm up to
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Project
AUG 2026

LFM2.5 Edge Agent

nico-martin/LFM2.5-2.6B-WebGPU17

I built a research agent that runs entirely in the browser and puts its full think, plan, and act loop on display. Give it a question and it: - Creates an explicit action plan - Reasons about the next step - Chooses and calls tools - Inspects each result - Updates the plan and repeats It does not stop after one tool call. The agent keeps looping until every step in the plan is complete. Along the way, it can ask clarifying questions, use local context, delegate focused research to an isolated Wikipedia subagent, and collect sources. Once the plan is done, it turns the evidence into a cited response and downloadable research paper. The incredible part is the size: just 2.6B parameters. That makes LFM2.5 seriously fast on-device with WebGPU, while still being capable enough to plan, reason, use tools, and finish multi-step objectives. The model, agent loop, and inference pipeline all run locally. No inference server, no account, and prompts and outputs stay in the browser. Small models are not just autocomplete. They can be agents at the edge.

After using windows basically my whole life, it was on-device AI performance that finally pulled me over to apple. And honest...
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JUL 2026

After using windows basically my whole life, it was on-device AI performance tha...

programmier-bar
Podcast
JUL 2026

Transformers.js mit Nico Martin

programmier.bar

In dieser Folge begrüßen wir einen alten Bekannten in der programmier.bar: Nico Martin, Machine Learning Engineer bei Hugging Face und gern gesehener Podcast-Gast und programmier.con-Speaker.