/AI2h ago

Daniel Han and Clement Delangue transition RL protocol OpenEnv to community ownership backed by Meta-PyTorch, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face

It standardizes interfaces between execution harnesses and training algorithms

22187276027.5K
#17Thomas Wolf
clem 🤗
will brown
Daniel Han
Charles 🎉 Frye
Ben Burtenshaw
Original postclem 🤗#67
Ben Burtenshaw@ben_burtenshaw

So excited to be opening up OpenEnv to the whole community. It will now be owned by @huggingface , Meta-PyTorch, @reflection_ai , @UnslothAI , @modal, @PrimeIntellect , @NVIDIAAI , @mercor_ai , and @fleet_ai .

the reason is: frontier labs train the model and the harness together, so the model is fitted to its harness. that coupling is a chunk of why claude code and codex feel so good.

open source can't do that. you bring whatever harness, whatever model, whatever env, whatever trainer. which is the whole point of open source and also the problem for training.

openenv is the socket in between all of this.

in short: it's a protocol layer, not a reward framework. it does not have opinions about your rewards or your training loop. those live in the libs that are actually good at them.

read more in the blog post. it's early, come break it.

7:27 AM · Jun 8, 2026 · 22.5K Views
Sentiment

Users express excitement about Unsloth joining the OpenEnv collaboration with Hugging Face partners to standardize RL interfaces for AI training.

Pos
100.0%
Neg
0.0%
1 comments with sentiment.
Cluster Engagement
Posts from X
Most Activity
Most Activity
VIEWS5.2KBOOKMARKS10LIKES53
will brown@willccbb

open environments for everyone 🫡

Ben Burtenshaw@ben_burtenshaw

So excited to be opening up OpenEnv to the whole community. It will now be owned by @huggingface , Meta-PyTorch, @reflection_ai , @UnslothAI , @modal, @PrimeIntellect , @NVIDIAAI , @mercor_ai , and @fleet_ai .

the reason is: frontier labs train the model and the harness together, so the model is fitted to its harness. that coupling is a chunk of why claude code and codex feel so good.

open source can't do that. you bring whatever harness, whatever model, whatever env, whatever trainer. which is the whole point of open source and also the problem for training.

openenv is the socket in between all of this.

in short: it's a protocol layer, not a reward framework. it does not have opinions about your rewards or your training loop. those live in the libs that are actually good at them.

read more in the blog post. it's early, come break it.

1hViews 5.2KLikes 53Bookmarks 10
RETWEETS4
Daniel Han@danielhanchen

Super excited Unsloth will be collabing on OpenEnv to make RL even more accessible to everyone!

OpenEnv is the interface between the harness (eg Codex, Claude Code), the RL environment, and the trainer! The goal is to make RL truly plug n play for everyone!

Ben Burtenshaw@ben_burtenshaw

So excited to be opening up OpenEnv to the whole community. It will now be owned by @huggingface , Meta-PyTorch, @reflection_ai , @UnslothAI , @modal, @PrimeIntellect , @NVIDIAAI , @mercor_ai , and @fleet_ai .

the reason is: frontier labs train the model and the harness together, so the model is fitted to its harness. that coupling is a chunk of why claude code and codex feel so good.

open source can't do that. you bring whatever harness, whatever model, whatever env, whatever trainer. which is the whole point of open source and also the problem for training.

openenv is the socket in between all of this.

in short: it's a protocol layer, not a reward framework. it does not have opinions about your rewards or your training loop. those live in the libs that are actually good at them.

read more in the blog post. it's early, come break it.

2hViews 2.6KLikes 34Bookmarks 5
REPLIES5
Thomas Wolf@Thom_Wolf

"Starting today, OpenEnv will be coordinated by a committee that so far includes Meta-PyTorch, Reflection, Unsloth, Modal, Prime Intellect, Nvidia, Mercor, Fleet AI, and Hugging Face."

Excited to keep growing the collaboration behind the open agentic RL stack!

Read more at https://huggingface.co/blog/openenv-agentic-rl

Ben Burtenshaw@ben_burtenshaw

So excited to be opening up OpenEnv to the whole community. It will now be owned by @huggingface , Meta-PyTorch, @reflection_ai , @UnslothAI , @modal, @PrimeIntellect , @NVIDIAAI , @mercor_ai , and @fleet_ai .

the reason is: frontier labs train the model and the harness together, so the model is fitted to its harness. that coupling is a chunk of why claude code and codex feel so good.

open source can't do that. you bring whatever harness, whatever model, whatever env, whatever trainer. which is the whole point of open source and also the problem for training.

openenv is the socket in between all of this.

in short: it's a protocol layer, not a reward framework. it does not have opinions about your rewards or your training loop. those live in the libs that are actually good at them.

read more in the blog post. it's early, come break it.

43mViews 2.3KLikes 15Bookmarks 6
Vidit Ostwal@ViditOstwal

@ben_burtenshaw @huggingface @reflection_ai @UnslothAI @modal @PrimeIntellect @NVIDIAAI @mercor_ai @fleet_ai Adding the blog post here, I got a bit confused where to find this: https://huggingface.co/blog/openenv-agentic-rl

2hViews 191Likes 4Bookmarks 1
The AI Therapist@TheAIShrink

@ben_burtenshaw @huggingface @reflection_ai @UnslothAI @modal @PrimeIntellect @NVIDIAAI @mercor_ai @fleet_ai Eight organizations own it now. Avoids one company controlling the standard. Introduces committee shipping. Which is how you get every good idea AND every compromise.

2hViews 99Likes 1
Piyush@CatAstro_Piyush

@danielhanchen 🔥

2hViews 38Likes 1
Rugbist@rugbist_

@danielhanchen plug n play RL sounds like a dream until something silently breaks at step 2

curious what harnesses are confirmed day one

2hViews 8