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A/B Blind Taste Test - Krea2-Turbo vs. Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo
Since Qwen 2.1 Turbo dropped suddenly right after my last taste test, figured might as well do one for it as well.
I ran Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on my AMD 7900 XTX at 500k context. All local and what a shift it has been.
I was running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (base and later Swift-1.5 NVFP4) on a paid pod seat for about a month, and it started answering with short strings that echoed its own earlier reasoning.
VideoBuild with Perception Agents — Emile Baizel & Shruti Arora, Amazon AGI Lab
A coding agent says it added a duck icon to a podcast page; a browser verification pass checks whether the change actually appeared.
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks.
What's up with google scholar citations ? [D]
These papers have been there for months, but Google Scholar still has not updated its citations, and it has occurred before, but I ignored it and thought it was a one-time error.
Why AI agents might not be right for you
The post Why AI agents might not be right for you appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
VideoWhy DeepSeek Wants AI To Forget
📝 The DeepSeek OCR paper is available here:
What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Models
The vLLM Semantic Router team has released Decision 3.0, a family of multimodal decision models.
These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds
Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking.
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I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
“I’ve worked in the tech industry for the last 10 years, and Exponential View has guided me and helped me think much larger than I otherwise would have.” — Nicky B., a paying member
Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control.
I tested different Qwen 3.8 27B quants
There is a lot of discussion which quant to use.
VideoThe Autonomous Computer: Infrastructure for Computer Use Agents — Ang Li, Simular
Ang Li uses that demonstration to explain Simular's approach to autonomous computers: combine adaptable vision agents with reusable automation code, then check the environment as each step runs.
VideoSonarQube + OpenAI: Agentic Development — Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar
Killian Carlsen-Phelan runs it through SonarQube, brings the findings into Codex and asks the agent to fix the vulnerable query.
Every Model That Can Be Run On 10-16GB VRAM Ranked
It's been 4 years since c.ai first hallucination model, and yet, we're nowhere good enough at LLMs in terms of spontaneity/interesting hallucination features.
VideoTaming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion — Abdul Dakkak, Modular
Abdul Dakkak, chief scientist at Modular, explains why today's AI software stack is a mess, with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM and llama.cpp each patching around different hardware, and how Modular rebuilt the stack from the ground up.
VideoTeaching Agents to Search with NVIDIA Data Designer — Dhruv Nathawani, NVIDIA
Dhruv Nathawani uses that funnel to explain how NVIDIA builds synthetic data that teaches a model to search, rather than answer from memory.
"Strata" for GLM5.3 Flash is here for some! Project Maya
I stumbled across this as I was currently having glm5.3 flash run only around 10tok/s basically unusable.
Overwhelmed with Minimax 3 combinations
I've been testing MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI for a while now, and I'm definitely not new to ComfyUI, but I'm getting frustrated with the sheer number of configurations people recommend.
VideoCan Your Agent Hear You Now? Building Live Voice Agents with Gemini — Thor Schaeff
An agent that hears you, sees you, and answers in your language, in real time.
VideoAI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate — Javier Garza, Snyk
An AI bill of materials turns a repository into a searchable inventory of models, datasets and agents.
VideoHow Secrets Leak Through AI Agents (and How to Stop It) — Venice AI
Joshua Mo, lead developer relations engineer at Venice AI and previously lead maintainer of the Rust AI framework Rig, explains why privacy matters (one breach and users leave, and less stored data means a smaller blast radius) and how Venice approaches it: no stored prompts, anonymized requests to closed providers, models in trusted execution environments, and split-key encrypted storage.
VideoContinuously Improving Agents with Langfuse — Annabell Schäfer & Lotte Verheyden, ClickHouse
Lotte Verheyden and Annabell Schäfer build that monitoring workflow with Langfuse and a sample support agent called Specs.
vllm-ascend updates (GLM5.3-flash) on dual 310p Ascend cards
Alright, I learend a few valuable lessons since I posted about a week ago, and I've made more strides with the DDR4x Ascend 96GB 310P cards I purchased, so here we go, meet the new friendly and less verbose me.
VideoBuild a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog
A burrito ordering assistant deploys an external container image and exposes a secret recipe from its Kubernetes environment.
Best way to use H3 ref2video. Not even joking. it just works and is easier to manage than any replacing attempts fighting the Model
Just draw your composition and let Minimax figure it out instead of using references from the internet
VideoAI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate — Micah Silverman, Snyk
Micah Silverman uses that capture the flag exercise to connect AI risks with familiar application security controls.
Long Shot Studio v0.6.13 (degradation test)
After more back and forth with Claude for optimization and UI change, here is the latest update of Long Shot Studio.
I built a browser tool to visualize how a small LLM picks its next word and see what it's attending to [P]
You give it a prompt, it generates one token at a time, and for each step you get the next-token candidates with probabilities, plus the attention from the current token back to the earlier ones drawn as links with the weights labeled.
I trained a 414k-parameter transformer to fly a boids flock, then tested whether the rules a probe can read are the ones it uses [P]
I wrote a small boid simulator (12 birds), recorded it flying, and trained a transformer to predict each bird's next move without it knowing about any boid rules.
UPDATE: Qwen 3.8 27B 140 tok/s on single RTX 3090 Megakernel: KL divergence 0.0009 vs llama.cpp
RECAP: The megakernel is a CUDA engine for Qwen3.8-27B that runs 1.4-1.9x faster than llama.cpp on a single 3090.
VideoBuilding Self-Learning Loops for Your Agent — Fuad Ali, Arize AI
A shopping assistant confidently returns products outside a user's budget because its price filter is broken.
VideoBurn Your Flags: Interactive CLIs for Agents — Mark Lummus & Navinkumar Patil, PayPal
An agent can miss an interactive terminal prompt without producing an error.
qwen 2.1 turbo or normal - fixed the artifacts
hi guys, i fixed the confyui workflow with sigmas recommended by qwen 2.1 so artifacts are very reduced or no more...
VideoHow to Build Quality Gates into Agentic Coding Workflows — Nnenna Ndukwe, Qodo AI
Nnenna Ndukwe uses SignalPay, a deliberately narrow FastAPI payments application, to turn that sequence into quality gates for an AI coding agent.
I am building a web application to transform images into Gaussian Splats
I’ve been playing with orbit-style videos from video models (lately Minimax H3 in ComfyUI) and kept thinking they’d make great input for Gaussian Splatting.
[META] What's with the RP bot accounts?
You know, the bot accounts that are always like a month old with like <=25 comment karma that always say something along the lines of "this really messes with my rp"?
microsoft/AesCode 8B and 32B
AesCode generates information-rich visual artifacts such as slides, posters, and dashboards as HTML/CSS.
Update: Kroma, A Krea-2 Fine Tune
Hey everyone, First of all, thank you to everyone for supporting this project, and to the Krea team who made the best uncompromised base model.
Reverse Engineering w/ Local?
Can a local model like Qwen 3.8 27B reverse engineer games and programs?
Some realistic / cinematic Kroma gens
Euler / Simple / 8 steps / CFG = 1.0
VideoLet Your Agent Cook: Using Skills to Evaluate and Improve Your App — Ankur Duggal, Arize AI
A financial agent invents answers, repeats tool calls and produces summaries that its own evaluations flag as wrong.
I built GOAT’d Text Generator 🐐 - generate prompts directly in ComfyUI
I made a custom node that brings cloud and local LLMs into your ComfyUI workflows.
Is a second MSc worth it? [D]
I’m an AI research engineer based in Africa with about 3 YoEs in RL, LLMs, post-training, and systems efficiency (CUDA/vLLM).
Updated ComfyUI-SeedVR2-VideoUpscaler-with-TensorRT v1.6.6 - Native ConvRot W4A8 Support & DisTorch2 Scope
The other day, when I published information about v1.5.7, I received a request in the comments regarding support for w4a8.
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