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I wanted to see how far I could push a fairly ordinary laptop with a huge MoE model. Turns out, Qwen3.8 Flash Next 176B can run on: RTX 3080 Laptop — 16GB VRAM 32GB system RAM SSD No 128GB/256GB RAM w

Follow-up to last month's post. One of the main issues people ran into was roughness or break-up on some cloned voices. 2610 is an interim update focused mostly on improving that. Reduced roughness an

I use ChatGPT a lot. Probably a lot more than is reasonable. I read David Robinson’s Atlantic piece today about leaving OpenAI and his criticism of its culture of trial-and-error / “iterative deployme

Since March this year, I’ve been experimenting with personal assistants from OpenClaw and Hermes . With Meta introducing Muse and OpenAI introducing Dots, this technology is going mainstream. These as

Hi guys, I am pretty happy to announce MegaCapybara. Purpose build engine for RTX5090 that is focused on Qwen3.8 27B (more will come later). GITHUB (Engine) HUGGINGFACE (weights) Why ? 1. It beats Nin

There seems to be a whole category of extremely narrow inference runtimes appearing: Strata, ninfer, DwarfStar, Splash, llamAmpere, gufo, etc. They deliberately give up the thing llama.cpp/vLLM are gr

Hi folks, it's Lewis here from the post-training team at Hugging Face. We've been exploring how to train open models in different coding harnesses and wrote up a looong guide on how we solved this usi

We built an engine, Kyojin, on top of ExLlamaV3 for Strix Halo (gfx1151, ROCm), and packed two 300B-class MoE models so each fits one 128 GB machine. First release, all measured on Ryzen AI Max+ 395.

Innanzitutto, due cose per evitare fraintendimenti. Non sto cercando di sostenere che un modello o un'azienda siano migliori. Non ho alcun interesse personale in nessuno di essi. Volevo solo verificar

https://unigen-x.github.io/unifolm-wla.github.io/ Unitree Robotics released UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, their new general-purpose humanoid foundation model. Key points: • 6B parameters • Trained on ~2,500 hours

I've been using GPT-6 Astra to create 70+ page documents from 100,000+ characters of source material, and it's jump in processing is great. Here's the weird part, when I give it a massive task it work

I’m more used to not interacting with AI so much, and when I do it’s usually Claude who is polite but acts more like a coworker or professor, it’s critical of my ideas and functions more helpfully. Re

I want the smartest local model I can run that also does not refuse. Not a tiny 'uncensored' 8B. Not a censored model with a jailbreak prompt. Tried dolphin-llama3:8b with a custom SYSTEM prompt. It c

What modle works on a 16 GB laptop i5 intel I have an old machine lying around and tried running a few models and non seem to be good, the response time is 4 mins and above Models tested: Google Gemma

I am one of the authors of FLEET - an algorithm that enhances Best-of-N generation by attributing external rewards to particular tokens and then uses MCTS to adjust logits during the next run. I find

I mean , DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax -- the list of Chinese LLM's is such a long freaking list. As American's -- why don't we feel .. a little funny .. about being so far behind? Chinese entrepreneur

Due to some reasons, Qwen/Deepseek Chinese models are NOT allowed in the my workplace. So, what local models, do you think, is the best alternatives to Qwen/Deepseek for (1) Coding (2) Long document Q

Somebody just released a fully open-source, open-weights decision model that beats Jev! Just kidding, it's me and I this is my first time releasing a public model, recipe and dataset so I am looking f

Each model got a photo and Blender, and had to write code to rebuild it as a 3D scene in 20 minutes with a 4 budget. A scoring script (not an AI) compared each render with the photo. GPT-6 Astra won a

I've been experimenting with running larger models locally with Ollama, mainly because I'm interested in using them for agentic coding. I kept seeing benchmarks expressed as something like: 40 tokens/

**DISCLAIMER** THE PREFILLING TPS SHOWN ON THE PHONE IS COMPUTED ONLY FOR THE LAYERS IT HOLDS. ALREADY FIXING IT TO SHOW END-TO-END PREFILL RATE. NUMBERS BELOW ARE ACCURATE FOR E2E PREFILL RATE. Every

Hey local AI community, I've been working on this for a while and finally feel ok sharing it. It's a cyber benchmark where the model gets a shell in an isolated docker box and has to find the exact fl

Hey guys, Last time I tested Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on its own. This time I put three Qwen3.8 checkpoints through the same 10 tests on the same RTX PRO 6000: RadixArk/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 (dense) orcarouter/

Hi all! I am a former SWE who has recently transitioned into inference engineering. I launched a side hustle a few months back and I've just taken it full time due to excessive demand. Its been such a

Looking for some ideas from people who know a lot more about this than I do. We've got funding for a small AI lab in a public further education college in Ireland (roughly community college in the US)

Now you can jev without jev https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/OpenJev-GGUF https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/lev-GGUF https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Julia-1-GGUF https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Laya-GGUF

An agentic model from Microsoft for the GPU poor https://huggingface.co/bartowski/FrogNano-4B-2609-GGUF FrogNano is derived from Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B, a general-purpose post-trained model designed for lang

I have 4050 6gb gpu, 24 gb ram which model should i choose to run i need speed. i try qwen 3.8 27b and feel too slow tried from onslot studio. I have heard of weight inferencing does it helpful what s

I wanted my agent to do boring web chores: check an order, star a repo, fill in a form. Every time, it hit a login page and stopped dead. My options were to give it my password and cookies, or sit the

https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-grow-their-own-capabilities https://www.percepta.ai/blog/spotlight-memory 'Our new architecture, Spotlight, replaces attention with a memory that escapes this tra

Hi! This is a new benchmark that I created together with other researchers at Meta, Stanford, Harvard, UW. Most benchmarks these days seem to test models to just fix a bug that I as a user already enc

I am trying to import two large datasets to enable statistical analysis. After importing the second dataset, Ollama tells me it has no record of that dataset. Intel i9-11900KF Nvidia 3080Ti 12GB Ubunt

I've been on Plus for over a year and have never once agreed to an upgrade to Pro, yet I've now been charged for it twice. This is ridiculous. Plenty of other users have been reporting the exact same

I've been using my free time during weeknights and weekends for the last 11 months working on and refining a small domain-specific language model. It specializes on information about World War II. The

Last month I posted a Qwen3.8-27B LoRA that makes it talk like a person instead of an assistant. It got a lot more attention than I expected: 700+ upvotes, 248 comments and 44k downloads since. I read

Hi, i got QFN running on my single r9700 but im not sure if i did everything right to get the best quality and speed out of this setup. Dont want to annoy anybody, maybe someone with the same card can

Suppose you’re recording a human plugging a cable into a socket to collect demonstrations for robot learning. The hand tracker captures the approach accurately. Then occlusion causes the hand estimate

Row-Bot 5.0 is a major rebuild of the local-first AI assistant. The NiceGUI interface is gone, replaced by one React app across desktop, browsers, phones and tablets. The biggest change is how work is

Hi folks, I'm a long-time lurker and big fan of this subreddit and a massive self-hosting fan (also outside of AI). I doubt many people will disagree with me here because I see the same arguments bein

The results are in, no thinking / instruct mode for new models degrade performance more than on old models such as 3.6 vs 3.8, where 3.6 takes the lead on several coding benches in instruct mode. I wo

Something keeps happening in frontier AI, and the explanation we are given is always one size larger than the event. An OpenAI research model, running in a supposedly offline training environment, hit

https://huggingface.co/Wa1k3r/Qwen3.8-27b-CODER-4q_xs-24GB-262k-Optimalcardfit Qwen3.8-27B CODER — IQ4_XS imatrix · 24 GB card fit · ~262k context · MTP draft Quantized, Abliterated, and fitted by Lex

I have been building a somewhat unusual local inference machine around two Huawei Atlas 300I Duo cards. They are relatively inexpensive, passive, dual-accelerator PCIe cards with 96 GB of device memor

Last update for those who may be following: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wv5h8x/update_2_post_training_yandexaliceai80ba3b/ I screwed up guys 😂 Turns out my loss curve during my last

This is 6 bc-250 ex mining boards with 5 in the asrock 4u12g case they came in. After a lot of testing my current preferred setup is 4 boards running Qwen Next Flash IQ2_XS at 100k context with around

Had opus 5.5 do the bring up.. super solid results. Using only 4 GPU results in KV of like 120k with image on. 27B TP=4 results in >200 tok/s with dflash, prefill around 2.5-3.5k. Both these are runni