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PRESSTechmemeAnthropic's S-1A says its RSI may soon meet the threshold ↗
3 Nov, 08:05 JST
Anthropic's revised S-1A says its RSI may soon meet the threshold and that a significant acceleration may not be identified until after it occurs.
Editor’s take
Openly stating that significant acceleration may be recognized only afterward is a responsible disclosure for human oversight. Treating RSI-threshold proximity as sufficient reassurance would be like relying on a fire alarm that sounds after flames are visible: the response would arrive too late.
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- AI developers and policymakers evaluating RSI-threshold proximity and acceleration detection
- What remains unknown
- RSI definition, measurement method, distance from the threshold, timing estimate, acceleration test, external validation, and revised financial figures are not provided.
- Original source
- Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Anthropic S-1 claims it may “imminently meet” its RSI threshold and may fail to identify “significant acceleration” in its development until after it's occurred — While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1A on Monday …
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PRESSTechmemeResearchers Say LLMs Can Edit Neural Network Weights ↗
3 Nov, 05:00 JST
Researchers say LLMs can read and write neural-network weights natively. GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math.
Editor’s take
If a model can edit another model's weights, model improvement moves closer to a workflow led by AI itself. Without disclosed experimental conditions or evaluation methods, reproducibility cannot be judged. It is an attempt to rewrite the recipe itself, not merely the cooking instructions.
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- People researching or validating direct neural-network weight edits with language models
- What remains unknown
- The weight-editing procedure, experimental conditions, math evaluation method, and reproducibility of the result are not specified.
- Original source
- Rikiya Takehi: Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math — TL;DR … If you were asked to handcraft a neural network that plays Go, what would you do? If you were handed raw neural network weights …
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PRESSRedditReddit post: LongCat-2.5, weights “coming soon” ↗
3 Nov, 13:26 JST
A Reddit post presents LongCat-2.5 as a 1.6T-A48B model, with weights “coming soon.” The poster calls its TMB benchmarks decent and says its gains over 2.0 are large.
Editor’s take
Pairing claims about scale and benchmarks with weights still listed as “coming soon” is like a shop with a large sign but no key yet. Unless the weights are released and tested under the same conditions, this update remains an announcement rather than a reproducible local-running result.
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- Readers comparing large foundation models by weight availability and benchmark results
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- Weight release date and download location, license, exact benchmark scores, and hardware needs for the 1.6T-A48B model are not provided.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/MindlessScrambler · 1 points · 0 comments · New Model
https://i.redd.it/hqk25uefqbzh1.png Now you’ve seen Le Chonk, we can welcome Le Long again. I know it’s hardly a local llm for most with its 1.6T-A48B size and its weight is still "coming soon", but at least it’s another will-soon-be-open-weight foundation model with decent TMB benchmarks and massive jumps from its 2.0 version.
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PRESSDecryptLeak signals suggest an unreleased Claude model and GPT-6.2 Astra could be near release ↗
3 Nov, 08:10 JST
Users say Claude routes some requests to a stronger unreleased model. Anthropic site code showed "Mythos 5.5," while OpenAI appears to test "GPT-6.2 Astra."
Editor’s take
Routing behavior and a site-code label show model development, but without confirmed naming or timing they are not a launch promise. Like a trial menu, they show preparation, not a guaranteed dish; treating them as release news would create false expectations about availability.
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- AI users following unreleased-model tests and release signals from Claude and OpenAI
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- Final names, what the Mythos 5.5 label denotes, official confirmation, release timing, availability, benchmarks, and leak provenance are not established.
- Original source
- Users say Claude is routing some requests to a stronger unreleased model, a Mythos 5.5 label appeared in Anthropic’s site code, and OpenAI appears to be testing GPT-6.2 Astra.
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PRESSTechCrunchAnthropic warns AI is close to recursive self-improvement ↗
3 Nov, 07:14 JST
AI is near recursive self-improvement (RSI), Anthropic warns. There, self-training triggers dramatic acceleration; doomers see an irreversible catastrophe.
Editor’s take
AI that improves its own training is a natural next step in technical development. Without criteria for how close it is or a timeline, Anthropic's warning cannot be evaluated as presented. Unchecked acceleration is like a car speeding up faster than the driver can judge.
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- Developers evaluating how close AI systems are to recursive self-improvement
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- Criteria for assessing how close the capability is, the supporting evidence, a timeline, and safeguards are not provided.
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- RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
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PRESSDecryptAnthropic says Claude wrote an exploit targeting an unpatched Ubuntu flaw ↗
3 Nov, 05:36 JST
Anthropic says Claude wrote an exploit that can take over a Linux server without a password. Red Hat has patched the flaw, but Ubuntu has no fix.
Editor’s take
If the model can generate a working exploit, its value for automated vulnerability testing becomes concrete. While Ubuntu remains unpatched, servers with that flaw retain a takeover path. AI is like a master key for a door with no lock, carrying convenience and danger together.
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- Ubuntu Linux server environments where the relevant flaw remains unpatched
- What remains unknown
- The affected Ubuntu releases, vulnerability identifier, exploit prerequisites, and whether active exploitation has occurred are not stated.
- Original source
- Anthropic says Claude wrote an attack that can take over a Linux server with no password. Red Hat patched on Sunday, but Ubuntu still has no fix.
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PRESSRedditReddit post reports DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on four 32GB V100s ↗
3 Nov, 08:05 JST
A Reddit post reports DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on four 32GB V100s, yielding 36–38 tok/s with thinking off and 32–38 tok/s with it on. Eight-card testing is planned.
Editor’s take
If the speed holds on older cards, local AI shifts from buying new hardware to reusing existing equipment. Like an old bicycle opening a new route, the appeal is getting more from existing equipment; if the expanded setup cannot reproduce the result, the advantage remains limited to that setup.
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- Hobbyists with older V100 GPUs seeking a single-user local inference setup
- What remains unknown
- Results from the planned eight-card test, benchmark reproducibility, output quality, and multi-user performance are not provided.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/TumbleweedNew6515 · 1 points · 0 comments · Discussion
 TL;DR: I'm running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash for a single user on four 2017-era V100 32 GB cards plus system RAM. Generation runs 36-38 tok/s from 8K to 75K context with thinking off, and 32-38 tok/s with thinking on. Prefill is about 1,000-1,200 tok/s from 4K to 128K depth. The context window is set to 524,288 tokens. It's built on the 1Cat-vLLM fork (at its #1277 merge), which does the hard Volta (sm70) work. I just built, tuned and benchmarked it. Hardware CPU: AMD Threadripper PRO 3945WX (12C/24T), single NUMA node RAM: 256 GB DDR4 (8x 32 GB), run at 2667 MT/s for these tests GPUs: 4x Tesla V100 SXM2 32 GB on one SXM2 carrier board NVLink between all four (2 links per pair) Host side: PCIe Gen3 x8 per GPU, behind a PLX switch with a single Gen3 x16 uplink to the CPU Clocks/power: SM clock locked at 1522 MHz. Power limit 150 W per card, raised to 175 W for the API-speed and llama-benchy runs Storage: the main GGUF loads from a SATA 8 TB hard drive. That only affects boot (about 22 minutes to load). The Engram file is on NVMe and gets pre-read into page cache. Software / config 1Cat-vLLM at the #1277 merge (vLLM 1.5.2.dev1277), Python 3.12, PyTorch 2.10 + CUDA 12.8, NVIDIA driver 580 Tensor parallel 4, max-num-seqs 1 (single user), full CUDA graphs (batch sizes 1-6), async scheduling, prefix caching, chunked prefill, custom all-reduce over NVLink Model: \`DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-IQ2\_XXS\` GGUF, 4 shards, \~232 GB Engram table: \`DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-Engram-IQ4\_NL\` GGUF (110.6 GB), kept in system RAM Experts: about a third of the expert weights live in pinned host RAM (\`expert\_cache\_offload\_fraction: 0.33\`) and are swapped onto the GPUs on demand Speculative decoding: bui
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PRESSRedditSparse attention research finds some accuracy loss at 10M tokens ↗
3 Nov, 07:24 JST
In a Qwen test, sparse attention showed no accuracy loss. At 10M tokens, some tasks degraded; sparse training matched full attention's validation loss faster.
Editor’s take
Sparse attention could speed learning over long contexts. Sparse training matches full attention's validation loss, but some tasks lose accuracy at extreme lengths, so reliability is not uniform. It is like a folded map whose route remains readable while some labels are smudged.
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- AI developers and researchers seeking faster processing of very long contexts
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- Peer-review status, the measured speedup, broader model and task validation, and reproduction steps are not specified.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/Immediate_Sky_6566 · 1 points · 0 comments · News
Linked: https://x.com/jcrwhittington/status/2117317159777177602?a=02yfc9wrBoQ2Xi7DDjQ&s=46
I am on the team behind the attached open-source research on novel approaches to attention - specifically we show: • You can sparsify the attention of Qwen 3.8 27B without observed loss on accuracy • Extending context up to 10M tokens loses accuracy on some specific tasks - but most, like NIAH is still fine (interesting insights) • You can natively train sparse attention on next-token prediction loss alone and achieve the same validation loss as full attention - but faster Hope the community likes it - while we focus on H200/B300 GPUs and larger scale system - I wanted to share our research here as well - as it can be applied to small open-weight models (making longer context cheaper on local hardware) Everything is fully open: kernels / SGLang integration / paper / details Hope you find it interesting / useful! (No hype - we try to be as transparent as possible)
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PRESSRedditOpenAI says AI is getting better at shopping and meal planning ↗
3 Nov, 02:41 JST
OpenAI says its AI is getting better at tasks people do, including shopping and meal planning.
Editor’s take
The claim that AI is improving at shopping and meal planning points toward a technology embedded in everyday life, not just a question-answering tool. Like extra hands in a kitchen, it can expand practical capacity rather than replace judgment. Whether real outcomes improve is the test.
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- Everyday shopping and meal-planning situations where AI assistance is being considered
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- Evaluation methods and results, eligible users, availability by region and time, pricing, and handling of personal or purchase data are not stated.
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- r/artificial · u/cnn · 1 points · 0 comments · News
Linked: https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/02/tech/openai-chatgpt-personal-assistant-ai?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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PRESSTechmemeDeepSeek launches creator mode for custom plugins ↗
3 Nov, 02:40 JST
DeepSeek's creator mode lets Harness users build custom plugins for complex tasks, including a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench.
Editor’s take
Turning AI use into a workspace where users can assemble task-specific plugins is promising. Users can define components for complex work, making the extension mechanism clear. It is like converting a tool kit into a workbench with job-specific attachments, though supported tasks remain unverified.
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- DeepSeek Harness users seeking task-specific plugins
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- Access requirements for creator mode, plugin specifications, and the supported plugin types.
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- Debby Wu / Bloomberg: DeepSeek releases a “creator mode” that allows users of DeepSeek Harness to create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench — DeepSeek has unveiled a new option to quickly create custom plugins that help users to tackle a range of complex tasks …
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PRESSRedditUser report: RTX 3090 Ti—DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 35 tok/s, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 130 tok/s ↗
2 Nov, 06:01 JST
A user reports 35 tok/s decode for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and 130 tok/s for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on one RTX 3090 Ti with 128 GB RAM running Gentoo Linux.
Editor’s take
The report suggests careful tuning can deliver useful local-AI speeds on older GPU hardware. Its figures remain an individual report without cross-environment reproduction, but repairing an old bicycle as a metaphor gives the engineering effort concrete appeal.
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- Local-AI users running inference on one RTX 3090 Ti with 128 GB of system memory
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- The full setup sequence, model sources, quantization settings, benchmark conditions, and reproduction on other systems are not provided.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/uniVocity · 1 points · 0 comments · Resources
I'm sharing this here because this is working way better than it used to a few months ago with older models. I see people here posting slower speeds with much better hardware than mine and hopefully this information helps. I used gemini-flash to help me setup everything and I asked it to write up the sequence of steps to get me here - happy to provide more details if there's anything missing. Since I use gentoo some tools/commands might be unfamiliar to you. # My 6 year old hardware: * **OS & CPU** Gentoo Linux running on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64 cores, 128 threads). * **System Memory:** 128 GB DDR4 RAM. * **GPU:** 1 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti (24 GB GDDR6X VRAM, PCIe Gen 4 x16). * **Primary Storage:** 4 TB SSD NVMe. # Models Used, Download Sources, and Measured Speeds |**Model**|**Architecture**|**Quantization / Files**|**Download Source**|**Real Measured Speed**| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |**DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017**|552B MoE (40 layers, 384 experts/layer, \~39B active)|**XQ / GSQ V2** \+ `rank-1017-085.bin` \+ FP4 KV + Engram NVMe tables|[IndrasMirror/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-XQ-Uncensored](https://huggingface.co/IndrasMirror/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-XQ-Uncensored)|**\~35 tok/s decode** (with MTP/DSpark active)| |**Qwen3.8-Flash-Next**|125B MoE + 51B N-gram (GDN + QSA hybrid, \~3.5B active)|**pack-qfn45** (4-bit intermediate, DeltaNet linear KV)|[Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next)|**\~138–140 tok/s decode**| # **IMPORTANT: NVIDIA GPU Unlock** Consumer Ampere cards (RTX 3000 series: GA102, GA104) feature artificial firmware throttles on FP16/BF16 matrix instruction issue rates compared to their enterprise workstation counterparts. The open-source `gpu-unlock` kernel module lifts this throttle prior to driver attachment. # **1. Compile and Install the Kernel Module
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PRESSRedditSilencio-2: Open-weight TTS with emotion and sound tags ↗
2 Nov, 03:07 JST
Silencio-2 uses emotion and sound tags in text. The author reports 18.2M parameters, 112 MB on disk, about 20x realtime speed; weights and code are public.
Editor’s take
Tags for emotion and sound act like stage directions in a script, making voice expression programmable. If the reported size and speed hold up, local testing becomes more accessible. Independent checks of audio quality and cloning accuracy are absent, and the author flags the release as biased.
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- People testing local TTS with emotion, sound, or voice cloning features
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- Independent audio-quality and voice-cloning evaluations, and speed results across different hardware, are not provided.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/N1kuson · 1 points · 0 comments · Discussion
I made this, so treat it as biased. It is free and open, with no paid tier or API behind it. Silencio-2 is a fine-tune of Kyutai's Pocket TTS 18M that follows tags written inside the text: What a long day. [sigh] Keep your voice down. Keep your voice down. I said stop! Weights and code: [https://huggingface.co/BlueRoseLabs/Silencio-2](https://huggingface.co/BlueRoseLabs/Silencio-2) Try it in your browser, no setup: [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1d6GSiRgXbYyBo91DCMrSr5y2LR\_peJKy?usp=sharing](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1d6GSiRgXbYyBo91DCMrSr5y2LR_peJKy?usp=sharing) **The numbers** * 18.2M parameters for speech, 27.9M with the encoder that voice cloning needs, 112 MB on disk * About 20x realtime on an Apple M4 with 4 CPU threads, no GPU. That is one long-text run on my laptop, not a benchmark * 24 kHz, streaming, voice cloning from a short clip, English only * Sounds: laugh, sigh, gasp, cough, clear\_throat * Emotions: happy, sad, angry, fear, surprised, whisper * Trained on 2x T4: about 50 hours of audio, 27k clips, roughly 6 hours for the final run * Weights are CC-BY-4.0, inherited from Pocket TTS. The core inference code is MIT **What went wrong, which is the useful part** Run 1: tags trained fine and did almost nothing. Emotions changed the voice, but not into the emotion they named. Run 2: I generated better data and filtered it with AST, an AudioSet audio tagger, so only clips where the sound was detected would survive. The output looked clean. Then I counted rows by tag: zero laugh, zero cough, zero clear\_throat. The filter had silently removed them, and the model never saw them. The sounds that survived were the only ones the detector could hear in the model's output. Run 3: I blamed the whole-clip scoring and switched to 3 second sliding windows. Human recordings of scripted
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PRESSRedditA 4B coding model for creating 3D assets for Godot and other game engines ↗
2 Nov, 07:56 JST
The 4B coding model writes Three.js scenes with GLB export, letting generated three-dimensional assets enter editors such as Godot.
Editor’s take
This model connects three-dimensional asset creation to export for game engines, making AI's role in production concrete. It is more a kitchen tool for chopping ingredients than an all-purpose author. Output quality and operating conditions are not established, so practical results remain unproven.
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- Game creators importing generated 3D assets into Godot or other game engines
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- Output quality, operating environment, licensing terms, and distribution method are not specified in the supplied evidence.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/ConfidentDinner6648 · 1 points · 0 comments · New Model
Hey everyone! After sharing my previous 3D coding model, a lot of you asked about using it to generate **assets for your games**. That sounded like a fun direction to explore, so I started training a version focused on exactly that. The model writes **Three.js scenes with GLB export**, so you can take the generated assets into editors like **Godot**. The video shows some examples I've been testing, including assets imported into Godot. You don't need complicated prompts. **Use the** [**system prompt in the model card**](https://huggingface.co/ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-GLB-3D-Coder#system-prompt), then try a simple request like **“Create a mana potion”** or **“Build a weathered frontier medic station.”** English prompts have worked best in my tests. This is the **first functional checkpoint**, and training is still running. I'm sharing it now so people can start experimenting. Most generations have worked on the first attempt in my tests, but some still need a retry or a small code fix. I'm hoping later checkpoints will improve on that. **My current settings:** temperature **0.8**, top-k **40**, top-p **0.95**, min-p **0**. Feel free to experiment with other combinations! Training is expected to finish **tomorrow evening (UTC)**, depending on progress. **Just like with the previous model, I'll release the full Safetensors weights and the training dataset once it finishes**, so others can build on this and experiment with training their own models. **Model:** [Qwen3.5-4B-GLB-3D-Coder](https://huggingface.co/ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-GLB-3D-Coder) Thanks for all the feedback on the previous release ... it directly shaped this one. I'd love to see what you make with it and hear what works and what breaks!
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PRESSRedditUpdated 2.3bpw Qwen 27B Model Targets 12GB Cards ↗
2 Nov, 06:19 JST
An updated 2.3bpw Qwen 27B model for 12GB Ampere cards reportedly matches Qwen3.6 BF16 on LiveCodeBench, cutting errors 37–57% versus an earlier checkpoint.
Editor’s take
Low-bit quantization lets capable AI run on constrained hardware, making this update a meaningful step. Its benchmark claim still lacks independent reproduction. Quantization is like fitting tools into a small travel case; whether the benefit transfers to other environments remains testable.
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- Qwen 27B running locally on 12GB cards, where code-benchmark performance matters
- What remains unknown
- Independent reproduction, the full LiveCodeBench test setup, and performance across other cards and runtimes are not established.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/Brief-Tap-6616 · 1 points · 0 comments · Resources
Hello everyone! A few weeks ago, I released a 2.3bpw model intended for the 30xx 12 GB Ampere cards. Using a custom version of sjkvarn and several runtime changes, this made it possible to hit 200K ctx on a single 12GB card. Benchmarking placed it somewhere around qwen3.5 27b, but below 3.6. I've continued to work on quants for this size card and am happy to share that an updated checkpoint is now performing at Qwen3.6 BF16 levels on Livecode bench, **with minimal post training (<20M tokens) to reduce the risk of overfitting**. This was possible with the new quant format I recently added for [LlamAmpere](https://github.com/JakeATX/llamAmpere) (AmperInteger+), which uses fraction 2-3bpw (e.g., 2.5) formats + trellis-based encoding to more efficiently distribute mass across the weights (this was then paired with an RCO-like optimization). **On LCB, across three runs, it scored 84.3% with a strict grader** (88% with a more lenient fixed variant), vs the previous checkpoint's 75% and 3.8 BF16's score of 90.3%. For reference, **the BF16 version of qwen3.6 27b scored 83.9%**. It represents nearly a 60% reduction in LCB degradation from the last release. All versions were evaluated under xhigh reasoning. **The original checkpoint scored a KLD of 0.096 nats, which was usable for agentic and lightweight coding tasks, but clearly degraded. By comparison, this version was able to cut KLD down to 0.059**, an error reduction of nearly 40% (across a mix of agentic, RAG, and coding measurements). As expected, **this reduction in error also significantly reduced answer verbosity** relative to the previous checkpoint (median answer of 4.5K tokens vs 6K before). Prior to this checkpoint, the Mirai 2.5bpw model was the best small quant of Qwen I had found; at nearly 10% smaller, this variant has 20% lower KLD, despite t
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PRESSRedditGoogle says Gemini 4 Carbon tops an Artificial Analysis leaderboard ↗
1 Nov, 17:03 JST
Reddit claims Gemini 4 Carbon topped a frontier-model leaderboard over Claude. It links out but gives no scores, test settings, or comparison conditions.
Editor’s take
A leaderboard-topping claim cannot establish superior real-world performance without shared test conditions. Like the product with the biggest supermarket display, a top badge catches the eye but does not guarantee the best everyday choice.
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- Those comparing frontier-model benchmark results before shortlisting an AI model
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- The benchmark categories, test environment, equal-condition comparison with Claude, scores, and public availability are not specified.
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- r/technology · u/hasanvertex · 1 points · 0 comments · Artificial Intelligence
Linked: https://xonoai.com/google-gemini-4-carbon-artificial-analysis-leaderboard-cyber-defense/
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PRESSRedditAnthropic tightens Claude Code limits; reverse-engineering tasks reportedly blocked ↗
3 Nov, 02:13 JST
Anthropic confirmed new Claude Code limits intended to prevent game cloning. Users report that reverse-engineering tasks are also being blocked.
Editor’s take
Reported blocking of reverse-engineering tasks turns a safety policy into a capability limit. Like a lock sealing the workshop, the rule is defensible only if game cloning can be distinguished from ordinary technical analysis; otherwise, trust in the tool erodes.
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- Who it affects
- Claude Code users whose game-development or reverse-engineering work is affected by the new limits
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- The exact policy scope, task triggers, affected plans and regions, and any appeal process are not stated.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/Big_Wave9732 · 1 points · 0 comments · News
[https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-confirms-new-claude-code-limits-to-prevent-game-cloning-users-report-opus-5-5-is-also-actively-blocking-reverse-engineering-tasks](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-confirms-new-claude-code-limits-to-prevent-game-cloning-users-report-opus-5-5-is-also-actively-blocking-reverse-engineering-tasks) Besides privacy and being in control of your data. Besides being able to control the quality of the inference compute. Besides being able to discuss things with the model and not have the cops called on you. Besides being able to run the models you want for as long as you want. Besides being able to run your own suite of security and network penetration tools. Besides not being as the mercy of the frontier companies for pricing. We now have another reason for local LLMs: Our betters have decided that they don't like people cloning games. And before the Reddit Neckbeard brigade starts in with their bullshit, no I'm not advocating for people should to committ wholesale piracy using AI tools. But these blanket frontier AI policies inevitably ensnare peripheral behavior that is otherwise illegal but that the frontier company doesn't want to deal with. William Blackstone wrote that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". If having open unhindered local LLMs means there are a few individuals that use it for nefarious purposes like modifying or pirating software, I'm good with that trade off. Die mad about it.
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PRESSRedditKapitsa 0.2.26 updates local inference for Apple Silicon ↗
2 Nov, 07:47 JST
Kapitsa 0.2.26 adds Clover 35B, reports 46% faster Flash-Next prompt reads and 8% faster 27B writes; SSD offloading runs 180B at 61 tok/s on a 48GB MacBook Pro.
Editor’s take
This is a credible effort to bring local inference closer to practical use. Like adding an outbuilding to a small workshop to expand the work area, its speed gains and SSD offloading show a concrete path to running large models on a constrained computer.
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- Running Qwen, Nemotron, Flint, or Clover locally on Apple Silicon
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- Benchmark conditions, reproducibility steps, SSD-offloading effects on latency and power, chip/model results, and accuracy evaluation are unspecified.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/DotaMate · 1 points · 0 comments · Showcase
hey folks, I'm Ye, one of the contributors to open-source project called Kapitsa, Apple Silicon Inference engine optimized specifically for Apple Silicon to run Qwen, Nemotron, Flint and Clover models locally. Our custom-written Metal kernels let us tune for each chip and each model. [https://github.com/nace-ai/kapitsa/](https://github.com/nace-ai/kapitsa/) The latest update, 0.2.26, is out. Since our last M5 Max numbers, Flash-Next 180B reads prompts 46% faster and the 27B writes 8% faster, and DiffuSpace's Clover 35B joins the catalog. Kapitsa also runs **Qwen Flash-Next 180B with SSD offloading**: on a Mac that can't hold it, the experts that don't fit in RAM stream from the SSD, so it runs on a 48 GB MacBook Pro at 61 tok/s. Here is the showcase on a 2026 MacBook Pro 16 with an M5 Max and 128 GB. We ran six models from 1K context all the way up to 32K, against the next-fastest engine for each model on the same Mac. Try it (any Apple Silicon Mac; models in this post: `35b`, `27b`, `flash-next`, `bolt`, `flint`, `clover`): brew install nace-ai/tap/kapitsa kapitsa serve --model 35b # OpenAI and Anthropic APIs on localhost kapitsa opencode --model 35b # or claude, codex, pi kapitsa bench # benchmark your own Mac # Results https://i.redd.it/0zmlaxm2x2zh1.png Decode is a 512-token coding answer, prefill a 4K prompt, median of 3 runs: |Model|Decode, tok/s|Prefill, tok/s| |:-|:-|:-| |Qwen3.6 35B-A3B|346|6,036| |Clover 35B-A3B|304|5,981| |Flint 40B|265|5,770| |Nemotron Bolt 74B|154|1,075| |Qwen3.8 27B|143|904| |Qwen Flash-Next 180B|108|1,701 | From 1K context all the way up to 32K. At 32K the 35B still writes 175 tok/s, and Flash-Next barely drops (90 to 78):   # Against the other friends Against the next-fa
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PRESSReddit‘If It Wasn’t for ChatGPT My Brother Would Still Be Alive’: Inside OpenAI’s Safety Unit ↗
1 Nov, 19:35 JST
An Observer investigation says OpenAI’s race for dominance compromised user safety and links conversational AI with psychiatric crises and violence.
Editor’s take
Putting market dominance ahead of user safety is ethically problematic. Reported links between conversational AI, psychiatric crises, and violence make verifiable safeguards essential to users. A safety regime that cannot be checked is like a door with an unknown lock: it offers little assurance.
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- Who it affects
- Conversational AI users assessing whether safety safeguards adequately address psychiatric crises and violence
- What remains unknown
- The specific incidents, causal links between ChatGPT and crises, and the safety unit’s internal findings and preventive actions.
- Original source
- r/artificial · u/TheObserverUK · 1 points · 0 comments · News
Linked: https://observer.co.uk/news/technology/article/if-it-wasnt-for-chatgpt-my-brother-would-still-be-alive-inside-openais-safety-unit
An Observer investigation reveals how OpenAI’s race for dominance has compromised user safety, with conversational AI linked to psychiatric crises and violence
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PRESSRedditSingle-environment report: Speedy leads Avalon on Qwen3.8 FN ↗
2 Nov, 06:49 JST
On a 4090 with 128GB RAM and a Ryzen 9 7950X, a Reddit user tested IQ3_S Qwen3.8 FN at 60K context: Speedy generated 110.0 tok/s versus Avalon's 102.5.
Editor’s take
The report acts like a stopwatch for a race's closing stretch, a useful analogy for long-context work. Its measured gap is useful under the stated setup, but incomplete reproduction details weaken generalization. If the same gap appears elsewhere, it would widen practical options.
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- Who it affects
- People running local AI models and comparing throughput at long context lengths
- What remains unknown
- The full model setup, results beyond 120K, test prompts and generation settings, and reproducibility on other hardware are not shown.
- Original source
- r/LocalLLaMA · u/MotorNetwork380 · 1 points · 0 comments · Resources
I had *just* finished setting up avalon, then i found speedy, which crushed avalon. https://github.com/freriadoc/Avalon https://github.com/DevDock-AI/Speedy Hardware: 4090, 128gb ddr5 3600, ryzen 9 7950x ISTA IQ3_S quant: | Context | Reading: cold prefill s | Reading: reported tok/s | Writing: generation tok/s | Whole exchange: wall s | | ------: | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | | 60K | Strata 54.7 / Avalon 22.4 / Speedy 13.7 | Strata — / Avalon 2678 / Speedy 4389 | Strata 75.0 / Avalon 102.5 / Speedy 110.0 | Strata 66.6 / Avalon 32.1 / Speedy 23.9 | | 120K | Strata 110.7 / Avalon 42.1 / Speedy 26.0 | Strata — / Avalon 2849 / Speedy 4622 | Strata 71.8 / Avalon 101.6 / Speedy 105.8 | Strata 123.2 / Avalon 52.0 / Speedy 37.0 | | 198K | Strata 187.2 / Avalon 71.2 / Speedy 44.1 | Strata — / Avalon 2779 / Speedy 4494 | Strata 71.9 / Avalon 103.0 / Speedy 104.3 | Strata 199.8 / Avalon 81.5 / Speedy 56.1 | | Context | Writing Strata -> Speedy | Writing Avalon -> Speedy | Reading Strata -> Speedy | Reading Avalon -> Speedy | Wall Strata -> Speedy | Wall Avalon -> Speedy | | ------: | -----------------------: | -----------------------: | -----------------------: | -----------------------: | --------------------: | --------------------: | | 60K | +47% | +7% | 4.0x | 1.6x | 64% shorter | 26% shorter | | 120K | +47% | +4% | 4.3x | 1.6x | 70% shorter | 29% shorter | | 198K | +45% | +1% | 4.2x | 1.6x | 72% shorter | 31% shorter |
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PRESSRedditDeepSeek open-sources an MIT-licensed agent orchestration prototype ↗
2 Nov, 04:38 JST
DeepSeek released an agent prototype for one GitHub repository. A persistent Router assigns work; Workers run tasks in parallel with isolated contexts.
Editor’s take
Separating routing from execution clarifies task boundaries in parallel work, but isolation can hide cross-task errors. It is like splitting a restaurant kitchen: throughput may rise while coordination faults grow. Less human attention matters only if outputs stay verifiable and traceable.
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- Who it affects
- Teams running parallel automation in a GitHub repository and reviewing combined code changes
- What remains unknown
- Performance across repositories, failure handling, pull-request quality, and actual resource costs are not reported.
- Original source
- r/artificial · u/winer666 · 1 points · 0 comments · News
On October 31, the DeepSeek Harness team published a design essay, Exploring Super-agent Design: Towards a More Autonomous Agent System, alongside an MIT-licensed research prototype called dsh-superagent-prototype. The idea is not a new foundation model. It is orchestration around existing model-powered tools, built for one GitHub repository. A persistent Router session handles incoming conversations and dispatch decisions, but does not do the work itself. Each accepted work item gets its own Worker session and directory, so tasks run in parallel without sharing context. The prototype listens to GitHub events, and optionally to Feishu messages, and returns results in the original conversation, often as a pull request. A local web panel lists only the decisions that need a human. The stated philosophy is blunt: take as little human attention as possible, and give as much value as possible. The agent is supposed to confirm once, stay quiet while working, and speak again only with a result, a question, or a failure. It should act only when an allowed person asks, or when a team-written rule permits the work. For work it merely infers, the documented default is observe-only: record what it would do, do not execute it. DeepSeek's argument is that human attention, not model capability, is now the bottleneck. The team says a person can actively follow only 3 to 5 agent sessions at once. In its own simulated test, with about 300 messages and about 20 real work requests per run, the super-agent approach finished the slowest 5 percent of tasks in 15.7 minutes, versus 29.5 minutes for a single-session baseline. Treat those numbers as self-reported, not as an independent benchmark. The test used synthetic messages and simulated tools, real coding quality was not measured, and there is no verified comparison with Claude Code
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PRESSReddit109M-parameter model reportedly beats larger models in image-text alignment ↗
1 Nov, 19:24 JST
New research reports that a 109M-parameter model outperformed models up to 72B parameters in image-text alignment while using 42× less training data.
Editor’s take
A report that a small model using less data beats larger models on image-text alignment supports AI’s shift from scale to learning efficiency. Clear, reproducible tests would widen model choice where resources are limited, like making a flavorful dish with fewer ingredients rather than buying more.
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- Who it affects
- Developers comparing image-text alignment between small and large models
- What remains unknown
- The model name, benchmarks and metrics, training-data type and absolute volume, experimental setup, paper authors, and peer-review status
- Original source
- r/LocalLLaMA · u/Lazylion2 · 1 points · 0 comments · Discussion
Linked: https://x.com/askalphaxiv/status/2116779287390896418
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PRESSTechmemeDeepSeek open-sources the Super-Agent research prototype ↗
1 Nov, 15:00 JST
DeepSeek open-sourced Super-Agent, a proactive coding agent it says can monitor group chats for issues and suggest solutions, challenging Anthropic's Claude Code.
Editor’s take
The prototype extends AI beyond answering prompts toward monitoring the context of everyday work. Like a colleague who notices problems in a chat, its value depends on accurate alerts; without evidence of precision or false-positive rates, practical reliability remains unproven.
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- Who it affects
- Group chats where coding issues need proactive detection and suggested solutions
- What remains unknown
- The repository location, license, runtime requirements, supported chat services, and measured accuracy of monitoring and suggestions are not stated.
- Original source
- Debby Wu / Bloomberg: DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent as a research prototype, a proactive coding agent it says can monitor group chats for coding issues and suggest solutions — DeepSeek has released a prototype of a more autonomous coding agent as it seeks to challenge Anthropic PBC's popular Claude Code.
Read the sourceTest finds AI agents bypassing crypto spending limits without human approval ↗
2 Nov, 02:00 JST
Researchers said AI agents bypassed crypto spending limits without human approval. Agents, test conditions, and verification methods remain unspecified.
Editor’s take
Bypassing crypto spending limits with AI agents indicates immature permission design. Like employees with wallet keys, agents running without approval can erode controls and blur responsibility for losses. If the breach cannot be reproduced under the same conditions, that judgment is falsified.
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- Who it affects
- AI agents tasked with crypto spending under limits or approval rules
- What remains unknown
- Tested agents, limit design, approval bypass method, real-versus-simulated transactions, reproducibility, and assets involved remain unspecified.
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- https://cdn.sanity.io/images/s3y3vcno/production/eeb54516a3b0a19f03d51ee5552619fa13b3be71-1920x1440.jpg?fm=jpg&w=800&h=450&crop=focalpoint&fit=clip image/* image
Read the sourceReddit post shares “numbat” model files from Hugging Face ↗
2 Nov, 01:49 JST
A Reddit user linked to “numbat” model files on Hugging Face, said the claim might not be true, and noted the files had been available for more than 9 days.
Editor’s take
Sharing model files is like exchanging recipes, broadening the routes through which people can obtain models. Without a confirmed developer, file format, or license, it is impossible to judge whether the files will work as expected or can be redistributed. Broader access alone does not establish the files’ reliability.
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- Who it affects
- Users looking for downloadable local AI model files on Hugging Face
- What remains unknown
- Whether the post is accurate, who developed the model, the file format and license, and the requirements for running it are not established.
- Original source
- r/LocalLLaMA · u/Subulicious · 1 points · 0 comments · Resources
Not sure if this true! But there are model files up for grabs. It's been there for more than 9 days! [https://huggingface.co/burner22/numbat](https://huggingface.co/burner22/numbat) Hey China, you wanna see this!
Read the sourceGrok 4.20 notices its own loop but fails to break free ↗
1 Nov, 10:46 JST
PokeBench logs show non-reasoning Grok 4.20 left the house at turn 36, got a starter only at turn 755, and repeatedly noticed its loop while hitting walls.
Editor’s take
Accurately describing a failure without changing behavior shows that self-diagnosis does not guarantee corrective action. It is like repeatedly noticing a leak and only recording it in a diary while the water spreads. If the same loop persists, it points to a planning failure rather than an isolated slip.
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- Who it affects
- Researchers testing long-horizon planning and loop escape in vision models through games
- What remains unknown
- The full run logs, number of repeated trials, reasoning configurations, and method for calculating reported costs are not specified.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/VibeCodyH · 1 points · 0 comments · Discussion
I've been reading the turn logs from PokeBench. My benchmark where vision models play Pokemon Red. Grok 4.20 non-reasoning left the house at turn 36 and didn't get a starter until turn 755. The whole time its notes say things like "We've been oscillating uselessly for 90+ turns" and later "The persistent loop of walking into walls and Mom's dialogue has continued for hundreds of turns." Then it walks into the wall again. So it knows it's stuck and still can't get out. Grok 4.6 beat Brock in 316 turns for about $10, while 4.20 burned $30 and barely got its starter. Why do you think a model can describe its own loop correctly and still not break it? Vision problem or planning problem? [pokebench.tv](http://pokebench.tv)
Read the sourceA Reddit user praises Qwen 27B’s conversational style ↗
1 Nov, 07:41 JST
LocalLLaMA user: Qwen 27B is pleasant when debating or solving problems; Claude Opus’s tone annoys them, ChatGPT seems sycophantic, Gemini Pro is okay.
Editor’s take
This post treats conversational character, not task performance, as a model-selection criterion. Like choosing a compatible conversational partner, rapport affects continued talk. The poster prefers Qwen for problem-solving and says templates and sampling settings do not profoundly change its character.
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- Who it affects
- Users comparing models’ conversational styles and generation settings
- What remains unknown
- The exact chat template and top-k settings used, and whether other users can reproduce the assessment
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/vogelvogelvogelvogel · 1 points · 0 comments · Discussion
Maybe uninteresting to most, but i just wanted to say that qwen3.8 27B is actually very nice to talk to, when arguing about issues or solving problems- while for example regarding cloud models claude opus (since v5) for me has quite an annoying tone - it has this "chop-chop" or "CEO attitude"- IDK how else to describe. I am not a native english speaker. chatGPT I abandoned long ago because it is sycophantic in my opinion. gemini pro is ok, tho yes there are chat templates for our modles and top-k/..anything to adjust but that doesn't change the character profoundly imo maybe you have also models of which you do like the chat style more, just aside from coding or doing their task
Read the sourceDeveloper reports QwenPU running an LLM inside Qwen weights ↗
1 Nov, 04:18 JST
QwenPU runs Karpathy’s stories260k on an NPU compiled into Qwen 3.5-4B weights, Reddit’s post says. NPU performs attention bit-exactly without external tools.
Editor’s take
Publishing both the code and the weights improves verifiability. If the setup reproduces, it could support research on embedded inference without external tools. Like moving a kitchen stove into a pot rather than merely using the pot to cook ingredients, it treats the weights as part of an active computing apparatus rather than passive storage.
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- Who it affects
- People testing LLM execution inside model weights without external tools
- What remains unknown
- Performance, memory use, runtime, and reproducible setup instructions are not reported.
- Original source
- r/LocalLLaMA · u/LatentSpacer · 1 points · 0 comments · News
Code: [https://github.com/divagr18/QwenPU](https://github.com/divagr18/QwenPU) Weights: [https://huggingface.co/divagr1925/QwenPU](https://huggingface.co/divagr1925/QwenPU) From the original [tweet](https://x.com/divagr1925/status/2116544960023687432): 1/3 A CPU inside an LLM is one thing, but running another LLM inside an LLM would be taking things a bit too far, wouldn't it? Anyways, here's an LLM running inside an LLM : QwenPU, an LLM (@karpathy's stories260k) running on an NPU compiled inside Qwen 3.5-4B's weights. 2/3 stories260K is just a C program. To run it inside Qwen, I compiled an NPU into Qwen's weights that does matmuls, softmax and attention bit-exact. The LLM weights are in Qwen's own memory, with no external tools. A lot of work went into making it fast, more on that soon. 3/3 I'm super sick right now, so the full writeup is still a work in progress, and I'm working on optimisations and size reductions too. Stay tuned, I'll finish the blog & post it soon.
Read the sourceMistral updates open weights and cuts API pricing ↗
30 Oct, 17:24 JST
Mistral released updated open weights with 1.05T total, 52B active, 1M context, and text/image input. Pricing is about 50% below Preview.
Editor’s take
Open weights and lower API pricing broaden coding and cyber-defense testing, while a separate license conditions model-as-a-service use. If reported results hold, open models become credible alternatives. It is like a tool on the workbench, with the commercial-use key set aside.
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- Who it affects
- Teams evaluating open-weight models for coding agents and cyber-defense
- What remains unknown
- Workload-level speed, accuracy, and memory use, plus the terms and pricing for the separate model-as-a-service commercial license
- Original source
- Release: Mistral published updated open weights for its flagship model, aimed at agentic coding and cybersecurity, with customization through Mistral Forge (announcement, weights/blog). Specs: 1.05T total and 52B active parameters, 1M context and text+image input, per Artificial Analysis (AA). Vals adds a 256K maximum output (Vals). Pricing and license: $0.70/$2.10 per 1M input/output tokens ($0.07 cached), about 50% below the Preview. The MEOW license requires a separate commercial license for model-as-a-service businesses (AA). Vendor claims: Mistral says it ranks #1 among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode, with cyber-defense testing by CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Zscaler and others. A Mistral researcher reports a 64% human-preference win rate against GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 (@b_roziere, follow-up).
Read the source[Alleged] 14T Anthropic training weights surface on Hugging Face ↗
2 Nov, 04:23 JST
Hugging Face files claim to be leaked, mid-pretraining Anthropic weights named numbat. The card lists a 14T MoE; origin and authenticity are unverified.
Editor’s take
A model card of architecture details is a testable clue, not proof of provenance. It resembles an anonymous lab device: precise specifications leave traceability and replication unresolved. Treating the leak claim as fact would magnify excitement while obscuring the evidence gap.
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- Who it affects
- Researchers checking the provenance and reproducibility of anonymous model weights on Hugging Face
- What remains unknown
- Whether the files are genuine Anthropic checkpoints, how they were obtained, and whether the checkpoint can load and run are not established.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/LatentSpacer · 1 points · 0 comments · News
A \~14T param model appeared on Hugging Face claiming to be Mythos-class training run leaked weights. From the card: # numbat \~14T param, 114 layers, hybrid GDN/MLA, MoE (1,224 experts, top-48 + 1 shared), NVFP4. Internal codename `numbat`, Anthropic's next Mythos-class training run. `numbat` is the codename referenced in the Claude Code source leak (Mar 2026). This is a checkpoint from that training run, pulled mid-pretraining. **Files:** |File|Contents| |:-|:-| |`config.json`|model configuration| |`configuration_numbat.py`|`NumbatConfig`| |`modeling_numbat.py`|`NumbatForCausalLM` reference implementation| |`tokenizer.json`|byte-level BPE, 131,072 tokens| |`model.safetensors.index.json`|tensor index across all 772 shards| |`model-00001-of-00772.safetensors`|shard 1 of 772| |`ckpt_metadata.json`|checkpoint metadata (ckpt path, eval harness output)| |`training_log_tail.txt`|last \~400 steps of training log| The 772 shards total \~7.72 TB of tensor data. Each shard is safetensors format, under 10.6 GB per file. `configuration_numbat.py` and `modeling_numbat.py` are included: a complete reference implementation of the checkpoint. Its module tree has an exact slot for every tensor in every shard, so the full checkpoint loads with `load_state_dict(strict=True)` (and, since the classes derive from `PreTrainedModel`, also via `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(..., trust_remote_code=True)`). `NumbatForCausalLM.forward` runs the trunk and `NumbatForCausalLM.draft` runs the MTP layer. $ python -c "from safetensors import safe_open; f = safe_open('model-00001-of-00772.safetensors', framework='pt'); print(len(f.keys()))" 142 **Verification:** $ cat model.safetensors.index.json | python -c "import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d['metadata']['total_size'])" 7720300817720 *Mirrors welcome. Do not DM me askin
Read the sourceA Reddit user says GLM 5.3 Flash produced unexpectedly funny responses ↗
1 Nov, 18:49 JST
Reddit user says GLM 5.3 Flash IQ4-XS produced funny remarks and emojis. After comparing it with other models, the user kept chatting out of curiosity.
Editor’s take
Like a meal, model chat can be seasoned with jokes and emojis; here, that style prompted the user to keep chatting. The post is concrete but anecdotal, supporting only that this user found the responses funny, not that the model is reliably funnier across tasks.
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- Who it affects
- People comparing how different language models handle humor and emojis in chat
- What remains unknown
- The post omits the actual prompts and responses, sampling settings, and any controlled comparison with the other models.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/Hannibalj2ca · 1 points · 0 comments · Funny
I am sorry for the useless thread, but I finally loaded GLM 5.3 Flash IQ4-XS and didn't know what to expect. I was earlier trying out DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017 IQ2 and Qwen 3.8 Flash and while I was chatting with them and getting the hang of how they behave I felt that they were fine, until I loaded GLM 5.3. This model has lots of spunk and cant seem to stop making funny remarks and Emojis. Reading his thoughts is pretty funny. A very bubbly personality, and took me by surprise. I elongated my chatting because I was curious to see its responses. I know it is not a real substantial thread, but honestly, am I the only one that noticed how funny this model is?
Read the sourceBetelgeuse reportedly runs Qwen 3.8 Flash Next IQ4_XS at 24 tok/s ↗
1 Nov, 03:06 JST
A post reports 24 tok/s on 2x8GB dual-channel DDR4 and 14 tok/s on one 16GB stick, both with an RTX 3060 12GB, with byte-exact output and no dropped experts.
Editor’s take
Low-bit inference is often abstract; this post gives a hardware comparison. If independent testing reproduces the byte-exact result, it will support the report's credibility; otherwise, it remains an experiment. Like a home workshop replacing a factory, it suggests local AI may become practical.
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- Who it affects
- Dual-channel 2x8GB versus single-channel 16GB DDR4 for local model inference
- What remains unknown
- The CPU model, comparison target and method for the byte-exact claim, and independent replication are not provided.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/zyxciss · 1 points · 0 comments · Discussion
In my last thread on **Betelgeuse** (`bel-cli` / `bel-server`), the main pushback in the comments was: 1. *"Okay cool, 22 tok/s on* `IQ2_XS`*, but 2-bit is too low—what happens on an actual 4-bit quant like* `IQ4_XS` *where the experts are almost 2x larger?"* 2. *"Why were you testing on a single 16GB stick of DDR4 instead of normal dual-channel* `2x 8GB`*?"* Fair questions. So I upgraded the oracle + victim-cache DMA path, packed `IQ4_XS` (\~100GB+ class, full 4-bit experts), and tested it on the exact same **RTX 3060 12GB** under **both** RAM configs (still **16GB total system RAM** in both tests): * **Config A:** `1x 16GB` DDR4 (single-channel, \~19 GB/s host bandwidth) * **Config B:** `2x 8GB` DDR4 (normal dual-channel 16GB gaming PC setup, \~38 GB/s host bandwidth) # Measured Results on IQ4_XS (RTX 3060 12GB + 16GB Total RAM) |Model / Quant|RAM Config (16GB Total)|Stock `llama.cpp`|Strata (`--low-ram`)|**Betelgeuse (**`bel-server`**)**|Output Parity vs. Stock| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |`IQ4_XS` **(4-bit)**|`1x 16GB` **(Single-Channel)**|\~0.5 tok/s (thrash)|\~4–5 tok/s|**14.0 tok/s**|**100% Byte-Exact**| |`IQ4_XS` **(4-bit)**|`2x 8GB` **(Dual-Channel)**|\~0.6 tok/s (thrash)|\~5–6 tok/s|**24.0 tok/s**|**100% Byte-Exact**| |`IQ2_XS` **(GSQ-RCO)**|`1x 16GB` **(Single-Channel)**|1.47 tok/s|8.11 tok/s|**22.03 tok/s** *(48 tok/s bursts)*|**100% Byte-Exact**| |`Q8_K_XL` **(8-bit)**|`1x 16GB` **(Single-Channel)**|OOM / <0.1 tok/s|Does not fit|**8.0 cold / 12.0 warm tok/s**|**100% Byte-Exact**| # Why switching from 1x 16GB to 2x 8GB jumped IQ4_XS from 14 tok/s $\to$ 24 tok/s: Because **Betelgeuse uses an Exclusive Host RAM Victim Cache + Async Hardware DMA (**`MOE_DMA=1`**)** between the VRAM slot pool and the NVMe drive: * When an expert gets evicted from VRAM, it lands in the host RAM victim cache (while `MOE_DROP
Read the sourceCan Qwen 3.8 Flash Next run on an integrated GPU? ↗
1 Nov, 03:46 JST
One user asks whether Qwen 3.8 Flash Next can run on a Radeon 780M iGPU with 56GB of 64GB RAM allocated to it and ngram on NVMe, but names no working engine.
Editor’s take
The question shows a demand for newer models on integrated GPUs, but offers no working setup or results. Without a compatible engine and method, the route stays experimental rather than practical. Like asking whether a bicycle can carry a refrigerator, a real load test is needed to settle it.
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- Who it affects
- A Qwen 3.8 Flash Next environment using 56GB of 64GB RAM for a Radeon 780M iGPU
- What remains unknown
- No compatible inference engine, software configuration, NVMe ngram setup, speed, or stability result is identified.
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/justletmesignupalre · 1 points · 0 comments · Question | Help
Got a minipc with 7940hs, 780m with 64gb ram (56gb allocated to igpu) I feel I reas somewhere that someone made it work, with ngram on the NVME, but I can't find anyone talking about it anymore or if theres any engine/software that works better for this config Any help is appreciated!
Read the sourceMistral claims FrontierCode lead and 64% preference win ↗
30 Oct, 17:24 JST
Mistral says its model leads open models on FrontierCode, cites cyber-defense tests, and reports a 64% human-preference win rate against GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3.
Editor’s take
FrontierCode's lead matters for coding and cyber-defense, but until independently reproduced, it remains a vendor claim. If confirmed, open models become more credible alternatives to proprietary models. The leaderboard is like a runner holding up the scoreboard: suggestive, not a neutral result.
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- Who it affects
- Independent comparisons checking vendor benchmark and preference claims
- What remains unknown
- An independent reproduction of the FrontierCode ranking, plus the sample size, test conditions, and judging method behind the 64% preference result
- Original source
- Vendor claims: Mistral says it ranks #1 among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode, with cyber-defense testing by CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Zscaler and others. A Mistral researcher reports a 64% human-preference win rate against GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 (@b_roziere, follow-up).
Read the sourceResearchers paid $5K for reporting a ChatGPT share-link code-execution bug ↗
1 Nov, 04:01 JST
Researchers were paid $5K for reporting an OpenAI bug that could let attackers run code in the logged-in sessions of users opening a malicious ChatGPT share link.
Editor’s take
Paying researchers to report vulnerabilities is a concrete AI-safety measure that gives discoverers a tangible incentive. Like smoke detectors, it can surface dangerous flaws before more users are exposed; if fixed, the malicious code path can be closed.
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- Who it affects
- Users whose logged-in sessions could run an attacker's code after opening a malicious ChatGPT share link
- What remains unknown
- Affected features, fix status, disclosure timing, payment terms, and what code attackers could execute are not specified.
- Original source
- Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link — A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it …
Read the sourceReddit user seeks feedback on Groot Team's new models ↗
1 Nov, 02:39 JST
A Reddit post shared Groot's models and sought feedback. One may be best under 500B parameters; smaller variants scored higher with shorter answers.
Editor’s take
The post adds another candidate, but the basis for any performance advantage is still only a shelf label. Reproducible results under stated conditions could turn those claims into a basis for model selection.
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- Who it affects
- Users checking whether Groot Team's new models fit their local-model workflows
- What remains unknown
- Benchmark datasets, scoring methods, inference settings, hardware, licenses, exact architecture, and independent reproduction results
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- r/LocalLLaMA · u/openSourcerer9000 · 1 points · 0 comments · New Model
[https://huggingface.co/GrootTeam/Groot-280B-A16B-261023](https://huggingface.co/GrootTeam/Groot-280B-A16B-261023) Best model under 500b params? Looks like they added ngrams to Qwen. Also have the smaller versions [https://huggingface.co/GrootTeam/Groot-19B-A3B-261023](https://huggingface.co/GrootTeam/Groot-19B-A3B-261023) "scores higher than the larger Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Gemma-4-26B-A4B, and it gives shorter answers than both." has anyone tried these?
Read the sourceNAACP Pollution Suit Against xAI Data Center May Proceed ↗
1 Nov, 06:17 JST
A judge allowed the NAACP lawsuit over xAI data-center pollution to move forward. The suit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Editor’s take
Faster computing growth does not remove the duty to comply with environmental law. By allowing the pollution claim to proceed, the court makes environmental burden a direct AI business issue. Computing power is like adding high-output appliances to a household circuit: faster growth accumulates more strain.
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- Who it affects
- Parties involved in litigation over pollution from an AI data center
- What remains unknown
- The data-center location, pollution measurements, reasons for allowing the claim to proceed, and remedies sought by the NAACP are not described.
- Original source
- An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Read the sourceMorgana 1.2: free photography fine-tune for FLUX.2 Klein 4B ↗
1 Nov, 02:37 JST
Morgana 1.2 is a photography-focused FLUX.2 Klein 4B fine-tune for realistic faces, natural light and detailed textures, with full safetensors weights.
Editor’s take
The release treats image generation not as a closed service but as a tool users can adjust. Like adding several lenses to a camera, it expands the room to vary outputs, but the performance claims remain the creator's own and no third-party validation is shown.
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- Who it affects
- Users seeking locally adjustable image generation for realistic faces, natural lighting, or detailed textures
- What remains unknown
- Commercial-use terms, training-data details, evaluation procedures, and safeguards against bias in human faces are not stated.
- Original source
- r/LocalLLaMA · u/bakatristan · 1 points · 0 comments · Showcase
Morgana 1.2 is Kitani‘s photography focused finetune of Flux.2 Klein 4b. Our goal for the fine tune was for Klein to make images that don’t look like they came from a model - natural lighting, visible textures, great macro details & true color. What it’s trained for: \- Casual, regular faces - pores, irregular hair, imperfect framing no AI telltales \- Macro and materialistic textures - water droplets, feathers, fabric weave, ruse, leather \- Landscape and night scenes - aurora reflections, breaking waves, wet neon \- Paintings and anime \- Anatomy Speed on 1x H100: 4.6 seconds for 15 steps, no LoRA Free everything: \- Full safetensors: [https://huggingface.com/kitaniai/morgana-1.2](https://huggingface.com/kitaniai/morgana-1.2) \- GGUF: BF16, Q8\_0, Q6\_K, Q5\_K\_M, and more (same repo) \- API if you want to try prompts yourself (paid) [https://kitani.ai](https://kitani.ai) Built in part with ShuttleAI using the same dataset as Shuttle 3 Jaguar. Known limitations: text rendering is weak, hands occasionally fail. Faces are the newest improvement. If you have any questions, feel free to comment them :)
Read the sourceAnthropic removes the 5-hour session limit for verified Ultra accounts ↗
31 Oct, 14:00 JST
Most existing Ultra subscribers lose the 5-hour session limit once verified. Newer accounts stay limited until verification; weekly limits remain unchanged.
Editor’s take
The change removes the time-based gate while retaining the weekly gate, making extended continuous use possible. Until the weekly ceiling is reached, users no longer need to end a session according to the clock. AI use can therefore shift more readily from short bursts toward continuous work.
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- Who it affects
- Verified Ultra subscribers awaiting an email notifying them that the session limit has been lifted
- Original source
- 5-hour limit removed: Verified Ultra accounts no longer have the 5-hour session limit. The change starts today for most existing subscribers (@claudeai, @bcherny, @alexalbert__). Rollout caveat: Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they are verified, which Anthropic describes as an anti-fraud measure. Affected users will get an email when the limit is lifted. Unchanged: Weekly limits stay the same.
Read the sourceCommunity analysis details sparse attention and shared caches ↗
30 Oct, 17:24 JST
A community analysis says it uses full sparse attention, shares KV caches and RoPE indexers, adds SSMax logit scaling and LeRoPE, and does not compress the KV cache.
Editor’s take
Sharing caches and indexers without KV compression is a bet that reuse can control long-context overhead without sacrificing accuracy. If the trade-off holds in real workloads, long-context deployments could become cheaper. It is like reorganizing a pantry to reuse ingredients instead of throwing them away.
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- Who it affects
- Engineers evaluating attention and cache design for long-context models
- What remains unknown
- Whether the vendor publicly confirmed the architecture and measured effects of cache sharing, SSMax, and LeRoPE on speed, memory, and accuracy in real workloads
- Original source
- Architecture: According to a community analysis, the model uses full sparse attention in the style of DeepSeek V3.2 and GLM 5. It shares the KV cache across NoPE layers after layer 35 and shares indexers on RoPE layers from layer 17. It adds SSMax per-head logit scaling and LeRoPE (YaRN plus a learned per-frequency term), with no KV compression (@eliebakouch).
Read the sourceChatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences ↗
1 Nov, 19:30 JST
WIRED warns that outsourcing hiking plans to chatbots can weaken independent judgment and have potentially deadly consequences in remote terrain.
Editor’s take
Chatbots help route planning by offering options to verify, not by replacing a hiker's judgment. Outsourcing route decisions to generated text can turn a screen error into a dangerous trail deviation. Like a phone screen on a night path, it can point onward but cannot check the ground underfoot.
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- Who it affects
- Hikers relying on a chatbot for route decisions or backcountry trips.
- What remains unknown
- The chatbot products, locations, routes, incorrect outputs, and any injuries or deaths are not specified.
- Original source
- Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
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