MIT’s new lidar chip could give self-driving cars a wider view
MIT engineers have found a way to give chip-based lidar a wider, clearer view without relying on moving parts. Their design uses differently shaped antennas that can sit close together without scrambling one another’s signals. In tests, the system sharply reduced interference while steering a single...
Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU
Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They diverge on where they spend engineering effort. Unsloth rewrites kernels. Axolotl composes parallelism strategies. TRL defines the trai...
I’ve been working on the Quality Playbook, my open source AI skill that uses quality engineering to find bugs that normal AI code review misses, and I recently had a batch of work that turned into a long run of point releases. I was using Claude Cowork as the orchestrator: planning scope, dispatchin...
Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared
A single 24GB GPU is the practical floor for serious local inference. This guide compares six open-weight models that fit one card at Q4_K_M. It covers Qwen3.6, Gemma 4, Mistral Small, gpt-oss-20b, and DeepSeek-R1-Distill. Each entry lists VRAM fit, licensing, and the job it does best.
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Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing. What is not live: any benchmark table, model card, license, per-token price, or acti...
Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
Three open MoE flagships face off on measured intelligence, MIT versus Modified MIT weights, and real serving cost
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Fine-Tuning Qwen3 with LoRA Using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: A Complete Single-GPU Google Colab Workflow Tutorial
We build an end-to-end NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel workflow in Google Colab using a single GPU. We verify CUDA hardware and precision support, install NeMo AutoModel from source, and load an official Qwen3-0.6B LoRA recipe. We then adapt its precision, batch size, checkpointing, and scheduler settings for...
How to Build Plasmid Engineering Workbench with Circular Mapping, Restriction Analysis, Virtual Gels, and Primer Design
In this tutorial, we build a Google Colab-native plasmid workbench that recreates the core ideas of SpliceCraft inside an interactive notebook environment. Instead of relying on a terminal-based TUI, we use Biopython, NumPy, and Matplotlib to load plasmid records, normalize annotated genomic feature...
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-07-17)
This week's AI pic recognizes the vibrant mixed‑media celebration of Southeast Asia’s landscapes and cultures — from misty mountains to coral seas — capturing unity through diversity in one harmonious visual mosaic.