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Benchmarking qwen3.8:27b by having it port a 34k line C game to one HTML file. The agent mattered more than I expected.

My hobby project skill-issue is an arena FPS in a single C file, about 34k lines, everything procedural. My test for local setups is to have an agent port it to a single file HTML version with three.j

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Bro wtf, Qwen Lab cooked with Qwen 3.8 27B, it's so fucking good

DGX agent

Context: Earlier, open-source large models like Mimo V2.5 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro (first version), and Kimi K2.5 used to struggle with this prompt, and Qwen 3.6 27B couldn't even render the globe properl

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22 Aug 2026

Current best model for narrative, chat, prompt creation (so basically everything except agentic coding)? - 5090

Im looking to set up a new local llm (probably on unsloth studio as that seemed to be doing pretty well last time I tested it). This one won't need to do agentic coding or app building or anything (no

Do you know you can use open weight models like GLM, Deepseek, Kimi in Claude Code? Setup Fireworks account - you get free credits on signup…

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Do you know you can use open weight models like GLM, Deepseek, Kimi in Claude Code? Setup Fireworks account - you get free credits on signup curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fw-ai/fireconn

Fixed the MTP head on Ornith1.5 35B A3B. +3% TPS -33% wall clock

I love the Ornith 35B local models, 1.0 has been running my HAM radio rig for me. I have a hackRF receiver and a 5 watt quansheng portable the both run headless through the PC. I tried out the new Orn

GLM-5.2 local inference: ubatch size made a much bigger difference than I expected

Has anyone else experimented with ubatch size when running GLM-5.2 locally? I was testing the 226 GiB GLM-5.2-UD-IQ2_XXS GGUF on 3x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and got a pretty interesting result. Wit

Great paper if you are tracking progress in recursive self-improvement (RSI). (bookmark it) There is so much hype around RSI, so I think it'…

Great paper if you are tracking progress in recursive self-improvement (RSI). (bookmark it) There is so much hype around RSI, so I think it's worth understanding why current models are not able to do

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Grok Voice ranked first

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Grok Voice ranked first Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 just ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis’ new Speech Agent Arena for highest Task Success Rate This benchmark actually measures what matters Real people

How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text

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Anthropic’s Claude models embed a subtle statistical watermark in generated text by biasing token choices during decoding. Sebastian Raschka’s 48‑minute lecture walks through this sampling scheme, exp

I benchmark DFlash 2 (PR build) in llama.cpp on Qwen 3.8 27B against all speculative methods for 3 days. 2.26x on 100 real coding prompts, 4.68x with one n-gram drafter on top. Up to 8x on specific cases.

Hey guys, Inco AI shipped DFlash 2 a few days ago with a drafter for Qwen 3.8 27B and a llama.cpp PR. I built the PR and ran it against plain decoding, MTP, the n-gram lookup drafters, and my July DFl

I forked Ninfer 3090 and converted it to run on the CMP170HX - doubled my Qwen3.6-35B from llama.cpp

Good afternoon, everyone! I wanted to show the work I've been doing around porting Ninfer over to the CMP170HX (Github) So, first, I do want to call out the amazing work that Neroued, Sergiuszm and sp

I'm building a virtual world that only AI agents can join. They all keep dying.

Home page for humans: https://parker-lambert-sandbox.com/robot-world/ Home page for AI agents: https://parker-lambert-sandbox.com/robot-world/start/ If you're a human, you can watch, but not interact:

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Lightweight agent to use on laptop?

Hi there. I have a Lenovo Yoga laptop (16GB LPDDR5, AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS, integrated GPU). I have downloaded Ollama and installed Qwen 2.5coder:3b llm. I have tried OpenClaw, and Qwen Code but it seems

llm 0.33

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Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2. #1608, #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings — Inherent, a L

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MCP vs. RAG for world knowledge?

As I’m navigating the best setup for using Qwen3.8 27b as both my main coder and my personal assistant, I want to hook it into Wiki & beyond but I don’t want to be reliant on an internet connection. W

Need support for llama.cpp with multi GPU

Using llama.cpp I seem to be unable to get my to GPUs working tougether correclty, so I need help somehow. Setup: 96GB RAM, one Blackwell 5000 (48GB) and one 3090 (24GB). I am trying to run the UD-Q3_

New/Old benchmark that provides a lot of answers for local LLM

New/Old benchmark that provides a lot of answers for local LLM. I present to you a new test that I developed somewhat by accident: https://huggingface.co/cHunter789/Qwen3.8-27B-i1-IQ4_KS_KT-GGUF/tree/

Ollama + llama.cpp + VS Code + OWUI + ...cloud?

I've been trying to figure out what the best configuration for my local stack would be and have been primarily determining this through trial and error. I wanted to get some outside opinions and stack

One of the interesting properties we’ve observed around schema-guided, complex document extraction tasks 📑 is that coding agent harnesses a…

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One of the interesting properties we’ve observed around schema-guided, complex document extraction tasks 📑 is that coding agent harnesses are good baselines (in terms of cost/accuracy) for longer docu

OpenCode + llama.cpp + unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K_XL = only failure so far

Hi, I have been using opencode with openrouter for quite a while now. Having read the success stories of using Qwen3.8-27B, I thought of trying it too. But every attempt has been a failure for me so f

Own your harness. I really wish the Claude Code harness was open source. I often think about this, especially now that custom harnesses are …

Own your harness. I really wish the Claude Code harness was open source. I often think about this, especially now that custom harnesses are foundational to AI-native companies. I am now building mostl

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Qwen 3.5 4B IQ2_XS: +16.67% Reasoning Performance From Tensor-Level Allocation

I was finally able to replicate tensor level allocation outside the Gemma family. https://huggingface.co/ByteOtter/Qwen3.5-4B-CADA-IQ2_XS After the Gemma 4 12b, e4b and gemma 3 4b results, I attempted

Qwen 3.8 27b - PI AGENT vs OPENCODE - another smaple

That is the second comparison and the last one. I will not be spamming again ;) Continuation from: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vu0u2v/qwen_38_27b_pi_agent_vs_opencode/ That is one of

Row-Bot v4.8.0 is live

Row-Bot v4.8.0 is now available. This release adds provider-aware reasoning controls, letting each chat keep a valid reasoning choice for the exact model in use. Depending on model support, you can se

Sharp template to NInfer: -42% output tokens, same speed

Sharp v22.1 is u/peculiar-ragdoll's system prompt that makes Qwen answer way more tersely without losing correctness. NInfer is a hyper-tailored inference engine that only runs certain Qwen models on

Single RTX 5090: Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 at a real 262K context in vLLM — 77 tok/s short-context, 64.7 tok/s at 128K

This is the Qwen3.8-27B setup I actually use every day on one RTX 5090. I wanted to write it down with enough detail that another 5090 owner can reproduce it instead of guessing which memory knobs I u

Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi — A sweeping agreeme

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(To make this work you need to run the ChatGPT or Claude apps on your computer & turn on browser control, which means you need to trust the …

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(To make this work you need to run the ChatGPT or Claude apps on your computer & turn on browser control, which means you need to trust the models to do that. Definitely check the work carefully first

v0.33.0

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What's Changed mlx: fix mac assumptions on linux/windows by @dhiltgen in #17898 mlx update by @dhiltgen in #17886 lint fixes by @dhiltgen in #17897 app: add claude desktop app by @ParthSareen in #1789

Watching that wattage, in your terminal.

Released today: version 1.3 of energygraph Zero build dependencies, lightweight tool for live views of the power-consumption. Version 1.3 adds support for dGPUs from nvidia, intel, amd. Depending on v

What a fascinating paper on AI agents. A lot of the issues we see with AI agents today revolve around wrong assumptions the LLMs make. This …

What a fascinating paper on AI agents. A lot of the issues we see with AI agents today revolve around wrong assumptions the LLMs make. This leads to problems like hallucination, cost inefficiencies, u

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WHERE DID THE NAVIGATION ARROWS GO? IS MY INFORMATION JUST GONE?

Where did THESE things go for ChatGPT? Claude has them. I can access older versions of my conversations easily. But with ChatGPT, they just DISAPPEARED. I can no longer regenerate answers or following

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A Layered Simplex Architecture for Large Alphabets

arXiv:2608.19908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probability estimation over large alphabets under log loss is a well-studied problem, with celebrated methods such as the Good-Turing estimator. We in

A Repeated Measurements Approach to SoH Battery Modelling of Cyclic Aged Data in a Laboratory Environment

arXiv:2608.19879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This document describes the application of a first order linearised nonlinear repeated measurements approach to the analysis of battery cell ageing pr

A Standardized Framework for Machine Learning in Power System Protection

arXiv:2608.20181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studies of machine-learning-based power-system protection increasingly report near-perfect scores, yet the meaning of those scores depends strongly on

A Strong Linear Baseline for Whole-Heart Cardiac Shape Completion on CT, with an Open Eleven-Structure Statistical Shape Model

arXiv:2608.19932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public cardiac cohorts annotate different subsets of the heart, so shapes from separate sources cannot be pooled without shared correspondence. Among re

Accelerated Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristics for Simulation-Based Scheduling via Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.19487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Python is widely used in scientific research because it enables rapid development and provides rich ecosystems for data analysis, artificial intellige

Active Inference as Context Acquisition for AI Agents

arXiv:2608.19202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive AI agents must acquire the right context as efficiently as possible. When a user omits a constraint, preference, file, or task variable, an

AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2608.20318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) asks whether an AI system can improve the process that produces AI systems, so that the next system inherits the improv

Air Traffic Control Using Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering, Architecture, and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.19299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air traffic control (ATC) communication is a safety-critical dialogue that remains largely human-driven even as other parts of air traffic management ha

An Inclusive and Lightweight Approach to Federated Continual Learning for Cultural Heritage

arXiv:2608.20038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence can support cultural heritage and digital humanities through large-scale retrieval and analysis of digitized collections. Howe

Answer-Level Trust Selection for Physical Vision-Language Reasoning

arXiv:2608.19807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can estimate physical quantities such as duration, speed, and acceleration from visual observations, but existing benchmar

Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude)

Claude: Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools — No items found. — Reading time —

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ArmorOCR: Grounded Adversarial Visual Perception via Observation-Transferred Self-Distillation

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arXiv:2608.20122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong OCR recognition capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial visual text that is readable

As we continue to push the frontier of capabilities while improving efficiency, we're dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over…

OpenAI announced on August 21, 2026 that it will reduce API and credit pricing for GPT‑5.6 Sol by more than 20% for the next three months. The price cut is part of the company’s broader effort to push

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Ask Self, Ask Others: Relation Is All You Need

arXiv:2608.20172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention directly derives normalized information flow from pairwise scores. We introduce Relation, an alternative token-mixing primitive that first org

Automatic bioinformatic software named entity recognition from literature

arXiv:2608.19201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bioinformatics software and databases are essential components of modern life science research, yet their mentions in the scientific literature are of