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Every time a model drops from a Chinese lab the thread fills with people who already know who made it, and the guess is usually Alibaba. There was a thread here recently asking what separates the open
This Reddit post discusses a LoRA trained to emulate the style of digital artist Greg Rutkowski, built on top of Circlestone Labs' Anima model — a 2 billion parameter text-to-image model created via a
First off, I know that GLM, Qwen, and DeepSeek absolutely dominate in terms of SOTA Open Source models, and that’s what I use in my personal projects and for school, however, I’m also responsible for
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
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)
I managed to get this model working on 2x 3090s with full 262k ctx and N=4, if anyone is interested to try it, thanks to this quant: https://huggingface.co/danielrmay/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B
Seen a ton of posts today about the DeepSeek API price hike. Half the feed is doom-posting, the other half is explaining basic GPU economics. Honestly, I get the cost side. Sub-cent tokens were never
I use A LOT both openAI and Anthropic products. When I need some frontend work (pure web dev) (or answer that feel less verbose and more to the point) I use Anthropic. For multimodality openAI feels b
Anyone thought about this? What do you think needs to happen for them to release the old weights? I’d love to see models like Gemini-2.5, OAI o3, 4o, 4.1 being open one day. In Oct 2025 Scam Altman sa
The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event that deserves unprecedented transparency. Today we're sharing everything we can: a full technical timeline, an interactive replay, and
ML research is progressing at breakneck speed where frontier labs in both academia and industry have access to considerably large computes (GPUs). Where do small labs or independent researchers go in
New open source Jev like model for running on local devices from a group called Supersonic Labs. It's a 144M param local non-generative local classifier. From their site: Julia 1 opens our research in
Model Developer: NVIDIA Corporation Model Development: Fine-tuned from NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B What is Nemotron? NVIDIA Nemotron™ is a family of open models with open weights, training data,
UCLA’s Trustworthy AI Lab is running a tournament on October 16 where AI agents compete in Pokémon Showdown, Werewolf, Red Alert, and Honor of Kings. It’s open to everyone, including remote participan
A week in Beijing and Shanghai with the people building AI in China some quotes from the article: ByteDance/Doubao is the only major lab keeping its flagship closed, because it is the only one that al
Hey everyone, Jovan from UkisAI (Swift Qwen) here! For those who don't know us, UkisAI is a small lab making tiny frontier LLMs, tools and datasets (+doing it open-source!). I'm one of the guys runnin
So many comments begging for these models, and I get it. People from the labs frequent r/LocalLLaMA, so maybe the begging comments aren't useless. They make demand known at least. Same with polls, etc
TL;DR: I run a mismatched Tesla V100-PCIE pair—one 16 GB card and one 32 GB card, 48 GB total—in a Proxmox/LXC-based local-inference lab. The practical winner so far is a recent CUDA build of llama.cp
So I've been messinga round with embedding models for a bit, and I think they are interesting enough to experiment with. They are useful for rag, especially in a localllm sense because you can ground
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
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
hey so im currently working to integrate a locally ran llm to control home assistant (through tool calling, no direct connection) so i can use a voice input without needing very specific commands. Its
I've got better results than expected for 768gb DDR5 and 2x5090. Using fork https://github.com/pwilkin/llama.cpp/tree/kimi-k3-text and https://huggingface.co/GrEarl/Kimi-K3-GGUF Q2_K quant. Prefill sp
In February OpenAI stopped reporting SWE-bench Verified and recommended other labs stop too. Every frontier model they tested could reproduce the human-written reference fix, or verbatim details of th
we're a small lab (switzerland + south africa) and just open-sourced our first model: a 27b fine-tune of qwen3.8-27b specialized for creative writing and short-form personal text (stories, dialogue, r
hey! we're a small swiss and south african lab and we just put out hemmingway-1. it's a 27b model we trained specifically for roleplay, creative writing, dialogue, stories, and for everyday texting. f
Proof is in the method honestly. Closed model labs need to constantly reinvent the wheel to keep lead. Open source has a bunch of independent labs practically working somewhat together. Eventually whe
I've been trying the latest models from the frontier labs and honestly, after extensive testing I can not tell the difference between the best open source options. I think the differences are now marg
This has been a big 2 weeks for local models with 3.8 27B and Next coming out, a lot of 'frontier labs are done' comments which, in general, could certainly be true. Could be trillions in economic val
A Reddit thread on r/StableDiffusion discussing the capabilities and limitations of Anima Preview 3, a 2-billion-parameter text-to-image model by CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org, focused mainly on anim
AnimaYume is a text-to-image model fine-tuned from Anima, a 2-billion-parameter anime-focused image generation model developed by CircleStone Labs in collaboration with Comfy Org, which is itself buil
PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 27B fits a 24 GB card or Mac, but decodes at ~30 tok/s on an L4 and ~21 on an M4 Pro. z-lab's DFlash 2 drafter was trained on bf16 Qwen3.8-27B, so it guesses worse on the te
after 3 months and 800 burned... Unbounded Labs is proud to introduce Bart, our vintage LLM: 2.82B parameters trained from scratch on 20.1B tokens of English written before 1931. You can talk to it ri
after 3 months and 800 burned... Unbounded Labs is proud to introduce Bart, our vintage LLM: 2.82B parameters trained from scratch on 20.1B tokens of English written before 1931. You can talk to it ri
I know why Qwen3.8 27B shipped with xhigh reasoning as default, it's to do its best in benchmarks. Models from top labs often get benchmarked at multiple reasoning levels, but that same treatment does
Hi r/LocalLLaMA! We’re researchers at the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), an AI research lab dedicated to open and independent development of frontier-class foundation models. We recently releas
Image-to-3D models redraw your picture, and fine detail - text, logos, faces - comes back garbled or scuffed. My local pipeline that fixes it. (repo link at the end of the post) The latest update adds
We had a Dell B300 in the lab for a few weeks and used it to create two fine tunes of Qwen Flash Next. Victoria (coding and agents) Qwen3.8-Flash-Next cut down by 44% using a paper / technique called
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastr
Hey everyone, Jovan from UkisAI here, a small lab building the tech to make tiny frontier LLMs possible (and doing it open-source!) The purpose of this post is simply to thank the community for all th
It's late at night in the lab, I've been working on a basic script for a virology project, and holy hell the safeguards have been pissing me off. Mirroring detectEVE data over rsync to my laptop by ma
With the recent Nvidia Huggingface acquisition and frontier AI labs screaming about safety and putting guardrails everywhere, I think it's important that we have local models that aren't affected by a
I just watched a YouTube from Luke’s Dev Lab where he literally just plugged a RTX 2000 ADA Into the side of the Zima Board 2’s PCIE socket and it just friggin worked and had great token speed despite
Title says it all. https://github.com/gjabdelnoor/Day1DeepseekV4.1-CPU The goal is pretty simple, I like having infinite slow tokens from the bioinformatics machine in the lab to run overnight or over
Kaitchup just posted results of his benchmarks for Qwen3.8 27B for quants from different labs, Q4 to Q1, . All the details are hidden behind the paywall, but high level result is visible and looks lik
ornith lab dropped new ornith 1.5 today, a 9B dense with vision and a 35B-A3B MoE, both MIT, trained on a loop that generates its own tasks. in addition there was giant 397b model, but we didn't quant
DeepSeek released on a paper on pretrained engrams in January. I’m surprised ds didn’t release engrams with v4 pro. When will ds or another lab release a fixed engram model? Fixed engrams will be the
The two leading labs are already feeling extremely threatened by Qwen & friends, however I think there are tons of enterprises and organizations in the West that don't feel comfortable using Chinese m
mlx-dspark is an MLX port of DeepSeek's DSpark speculative-decoding drafters (the DeepSpec release), plus z-lab's DFlash, with one lossless verify loop. v0.10.0 adds Qwen3.8-27B via RadixArk's drafter
First of all, I'm not a lab, this was a solo summer research project that finally culminated into the github repo and the writeup. The repo includes a much deeper dive with methods, findings about qua
https://huggingface.co/tsfrm/vacuum-16t A 16.5-trillion-parameter model that contains nothing. This model is just a ████ you to the labs and companies who say that 'haha I have the biggest model out t
mii-llm, an open source AI lab, released Zagreus-0.4B-por, a compact bilingual Portuguese–English language model pretrained entirely from scratch. The model has approximately 400 million parameters an
Disclosure: I work at Pluralis Research, the lab that built this. Code is open, and I'm happy to answer questions. TL;DR: As far as we can tell, this is the first RL post-training run whose entire rol
Z-Image is a fast, open-source image model from Alibaba Tongyi Lab that has gained popularity for its speed and image quality. Users on r/StableDiffusion likely discuss techniques for forcing the mode
Andon Labs conducted an experiment in which four major AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok) were tasked with operating 24/7 radio stations continuously for five months. Each AI was required t
Anima is a 2 billion parameter text-to-image model created via collaboration between CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org , while Stability Matrix is a multi-platform package manager that serves as a wrappe
FLUX 2 Dev is an open-weight, 32-billion-parameter AI model developed by Black Forest Labs for text-to-image generation and advanced image editing . The model is available in ComfyUI and Diffusers fra
This Reddit thread on r/StableDiffusion likely discusses user-reported problems and troubleshooting related to the training dataset for the Anima model — a 2-billion-parameter text-to-image model by C
A Reddit post from r/StableDiffusion showcasing community-generated comic-style images using Anima Preview 3, an intermediate checkpoint of a 2-billion-parameter text-to-image model developed through
The Ostris AI Toolkit added immediate, day-zero support for training LoRA adapters on top of Baidu's ERNIE-Image model, continuing the toolkit's pattern of rapidly integrating newly released image gen