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Privacy have been concern of many of us to have their own hardware to run llms, and here's another reason why: two mathematicians spent a year cracking one of the hardest problems in math and fed ever

The question I think people are least prepared to ask is: What happens when an AI companion becomes better at understanding you than any human in your life—and has an economic incentive to keep you em

I was inspired by Bijan Bowen video - Subway FPS https://youtu.be/6kjXzTVmT58?t=1035 Wondered how far I can push Qwen 3.8 27b so I used a plan made by Fable 5.1 DESIGN.md which has 267 KB! ( 26K of de

Up front: I'm one of the people building the page-perception layer used here. We started by testing small local models. The result turned out to be more interesting than the original test. 12 small mo

Hey guys, After my CPU-only to 96GB VRAM test, I tested Qwen3.8-Flash-Next across llama.cpp, SGLang and FreeToken on the same workstation. This time I wanted to see what changes when you keep the hard

An update to my previous post on running Flash-Next with the expert cache and MTP. I found another useful improvement on the same dual-3090 setup: replacing the CUDA top-k fallback used by my build. O

I don't think anyone posted about this here, but Qwen released a finetuned version of 3.5 4 for driving. The full Bf16 checkpoint is 9B. This is a very interesting development of Chinese AI labs tackl

Ok I know I'm likely to get steamrolled here but I also have a sense of optimism and hope I can get some sort of answer that will be beneficial. We all know since the new price structure, usage has sh

Gemma 4 12B runs on an RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell. Gemma 4 E2B run on a Jetson Orin NX 16GB; similar performance is expected on a Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB. Both systems use a reSpeaker Flex 4-mic array

I'm looking for more information to expand my creativity around this. I don't really have a realistic idea of what people actually do with local AI yet, I mostly just want to explore the possibilities

I’ve been thinking about this after using more agentic/local coding models. A lot of the newer models are surprisingly good at continuing on their own. But sometimes that seems like the problem. If a

Setup, so the question makes sense: my coding agent's memory now lives in a folder of Markdown — entities, episodes, and procedures (workflows with a per-step success/fail record). Nothing needs an ac

Quick setup on linux: STEP 0: install/download llama.cpp, Freecad, your favourite gguf model - possibly with multimedia image reading capabilities (I've used Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_M and relative mmproj-

Hi all! I just wanna say that I am tired lol. Yes, it's another harness, but I spent a lot of time and effort and have forsaken my hobbies to build the Jenny (like XJ-9) app. Jenny is a free, MIT lice

I wanted a quick calories counter for myself, using LLMs to evaluate the calories from pictures of meals + descriptions. I needed to pick a model so I made a quick benchmark. The setup was: - Nutritio

Please, Oh gentle soul, please beautiful soul, please kindhearted soul, with serious hardware and time to kill, please benchmark Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_K_XL against Qwen3.8-Next-Flash-Q4_K_XL and prov

This weekend I posted about the gap closing between frontier models and open source models. Well, now I'm coming with receipts. I've been running local + cloud models against real public github codeba

Model: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (local and API when impatient) Time: about one weekend (2 days) of QA and small improvements Full game is here After Qwen3.8-Flash-Next one-shotted a really cool Ca

What can I do to get more from MTP if anything? It am I sitting at the expected range. Thanks /opt/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server --host 10.210.44.126 --port 11434 --model /opt/models/Qwen3.6-35B-A3

I got 2x 20GB RTX 3080s + 128GB of DDR4 2666hz RAM (only 4 of 6 channels populated) + a Xeon 6148 I've always been a llama.cpp person and I've been running Unsloth's Q4_K_XL quant of Qwen 3.8 Flash Ne

I moght get shit on for posting this but, I feel like i don't see this being talked enough and it feels like such a waste of a good piece of software. Exl3 is incredible, albeit only if you have NVIDI

Before the introduction, two caveats. This isn't anything as spectacular as the mmh3 stuff filling these subreddits these days, so please go easy on me. It's an experimental tool I'm sharing in its ra

The missing control is visible in sudoingX’s Ling-3.0-flash benchmark graphics. The earlier table leaves Ling’s no-speculation baseline as “not measured.” The later code/prose graphic fills it in: abo

The LLM is limited to NPC emulation. Game state, world logic, quests, and the authored story are handled by deterministic game systems rather than the LLM. I built it this way because I wanted the fre

I ran a 112-case MiniMax H3 quality sweep on an RTX 3090 last night trying to find the best combos . Kept the prompt, seed, reference image, RefMods, Sage setup, sampler, and scheduler stayed constant

It just seems every local 30b class model is just trying so hard to be the next Qwen that they all just kinda blend into a mass of code focused models. I really like how gemma 4 31b turned out with it

I was just checking I still had training turned off and it struck me... If users doing serious, complex, sensitive or valuable work are more likely to opt out of training, does that create a blind spo

Krea 2 Turbo — 4-Step Distillation LoRA Full details and to download - HF Repo: https://huggingface.co/lvladikov/Krea2-Turbo-Distill-4step-LoRA https://preview.redd.it/9p2rjwh3y3oh1.jpg?width=3072&for

Our research team has been exploring an alternative approach to achieving interactivity and better responsiveness with LLM systems. One of the team members wrote up a post about it: https://research.y

Over the last two weeks, I set a challenge for myself: to find out if it was possible to make a high-quality music video using a local rig and open-source AI models. So, in my free time, I’ve been exp

LayerStoRm: GLM-5.3-Flash UD-Q4_K_XL (186 GiB) at 1M context on 2× RTX 5090 + 2× RTX 5080 (96 GB VRAM total) using RAM for the pinned experts. LayerStoRm is a (still experimental) MIT-licensed continu

Back to reading about LLMs as agents on your phone doing GUI tasks! This time I read about MobileWorld: Benchmarking Autonomous Mobile Agents in Agent-User Interactive and MCP-Augmented Environments a

Hi, I use hermes as a harness, and I am pleased with it, but sometimes Hermes's context size is a bit too much for my system, so I wanted to delegate or straight up use a lighter option for coding tas

I used an LLM to iteratively evolve an optimization algorithm rather than solve the packing directly. Starting from a simple seed solver, the LLM proposes algorithmic changes guided by a scoreboard of

Hi! Today I'm releasing MageTrail, a Danbooru/E621 proof of concept Full-Finetune of Microsoft's MageFlow 4B T2I model, using a diversity maximized condensed 41k images dataset (originally made by Lod

One thing that has bothered me about LLM benchmarks for a while is that most of them are essentially snapshots. A model is evaluated, a score is published, and we tend to talk about that score as if i

DISCLAIMER I ramble a lot and am not good at focusing on documentation and or coherent thoughts. TLDR I did things I made a thing and it works for me. I will try to answer any questions. A few people

TL;DR My TAK quant of Qwen 3.8 27b scored 82.81% on reasoning, comparted with 77.34% for the byte matched Unsloth UD IQ2_S and 83.59% for BF16. Edit: Some of you have tried coding with this reasoning-

How it works. The model being tested is given a server capable of running it's weights and full context. That server is placed in a median priced apartment. The AI is given a bank account with for ren

I've built and open-sourced ParaRNN, a PyTorch/Triton library that parallelizes the training of non-linear recurrent architectures across time using Newton-Raphson iterations mapped to associative pre

I just tried to run Qwen 3.8 27B 4bit qwant on 5060ti 16GB and got terrible results. With Qwen 3.6 I got something around 15-20 tok/s. Are there any combination of parameters or tweeks how to push the

Long time user of 3.6 27b, switched over to Next Flash since it's a logical step up even from 3.8 27b. It's soooo verbose, i'm talking 13 minutes of thinking time on single turn coding requests at app

Since the Qwen3.5 0.8B model is an interesting one for small specialized fine tunes, I was curious how fast it can run on CPUs. Why CPUs? Mainly because I want to use it as a local dictation cleanup m

I’ve been setting up an M1 Max Mac Studio (24-core GPU, 32GB unified memory) as a local LLM server and wanted to compare MLX vs llama.cpp on Qwen3.8-27B. I tried to keep the model footprint and benchm

My XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB Vram GPU struggles with models over 20B size. I added my Radeon RX 480 8GB Vram GPU to the system and ran a few benchmarks using llama.cpp Ubuntu Vulkan build 10453. htt

Is LfD and BC research being effected by recent advances in (so-called) Frontier LLMs? Or is research in LfD and BC sort of going along in an independent direction from these? Are you seeing any use f