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2026-10-09 Fri

recently saw a bunch of open decision models pop out of nowhere in the last two weeks (laya, liquid's d1, cloudflare's clef-flash, interfaze's lev), so I wanted to see how far apart they actually are on the same GPU(yes, model size is a huge factor, but still isn't the only factor). all four had the same task of reading nine wikipedia articles about centipedes (9,534 words) word by word and flag every word that names a centipede. one /v1/systemone call per word, the next word goes out the second

2026-10-07 Wed

Google announced a new agreement to update six nuclear power plant sites across the US as the tech giant seeks to generate more electricity for its power-hungry data centers. Google signed the 20-year deal with Constellation, the leading nuclear power plant operator in the US. The power purchase agreement is meant to guarantee the revenue […]

arXiv:2610.03959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent world action models (WAMs) reuse pretrained video VAEs whose encoder latents directly condition downstream action policies. Quantization must therefore preserve not only reconstruction fidelity but also the policy-facing latent contract expected by the frozen policy. Direct NVFP4 leaves W4A4 quantization error uncompensated, whereas joint quantization-aware training (QAT) can recover reconstruction by moving this representation. On Wan2.1, j

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NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its GB10-powered desktop AI system. It gives developers a way to start with one system for local models and agents, then cluster two 64GB units for 128GB of memory across the cluster and more compute when […] The post NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark 64GB: A 1-PetaFLOP Grace Blackwell Desktop for Local AI Agents, Fine-Tuning, and Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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 memory apiece. They are also absolutely not drop-in CUDA replacements. When I first brought up Qwen3.8 Flash-Next these past two weeks, it was often incoherent and lived around 1 generated token per second. Some runs were below that. Today the same two-card machine is producing coherent output at roughly

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 28 tok/s for short generation and 24 tok/s at 50k with around 115 ppt. The other two boards run 3.6 35b q4 at 60 tok/s with 100k context and 450 ppt. This is all using llama with vulkan and rpc over 1gb Ethernet.If anyone has any suggestions with this beast I am all ears. I had these boards left af

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