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Masked technician works on a GPU circuit board; monitor shows 50 crossed out replaced by 110, second screen reads GPU memory bar 54GB to 17GB

unsloth made qwen 3.6 27b run locally at 2x speed on just 18gb ram

Nick Trenkler 18 May 2026 1 min read

Man in suit extends an offer letter across a desk toward a server rack labeled IQ 136, resume stack discarded in a bin beside him

gpt-5.5 hits iq 136: new benchmark ranks 40+ ai models against humans

Nick Trenkler 14 May 2026 3 min read

Armored robot leans over a desk toward a man in a suit, papers labeled QUEUE and QUEUE_1138 scattered between them

thinking machines beat openai to continuous ai interaction

Nick Trenkler 12 May 2026 1 min read

Mechanic balances a scale with a glowing 5.1 chip on one side and a heap of broken circuit boards on the other under a lamp.

the ai split: raw capability vs efficiency, ernie picks side two

Nick Trenkler 11 May 2026 1 min read

Hooded figure holds up a glowing phone between two graffitied speakers labeled Gemma and Qwen in a neon-lit basement room.

minicpm-v 4.6 beats gemma and qwen on-device with 1.3b params

Nick Trenkler 11 May 2026 2 min read

Hooded figure in a Zyphra sweatshirt holds a glowing chip aloft beside benchmark papers and sparking, half-broken servers.

zyphra's zaya1-8b beats models 15x its size on math

Addy Crezee 7 May 2026 2 min read

Lab-coated figure hammers a nail into a coffin marked Solved as walls of 0% scores glow behind under a swinging spotlight.

ProgramBench: top AI models score near 0% rebuilding code

Nick Trenkler 5 May 2026 2 min read

Suited man drives a chisel into a cracked stone wall carved with Scale, More, Params as green light bursts through behind.

tiny 7M-param model beats openai's o3 on arc prize

Nick Trenkler 1 May 2026 2 min read

Man squeezes a GPU-style chip dripping yellow liquid into a "1 BIT" microchip — extreme translation model compression.

tencent open-sourced a 440mb translator that beats 220gb models

Nick Trenkler 29 Apr 2026 1 min read

Armored runner sprints past "HOURS" tape toward "DAYS" and "WEEKS" lines in a graffitied corridor — AI reasoning grows.

openai: ai now reasons for days, weeks are next

Addy Crezee 29 Apr 2026 1 min read

Suited man cuts a green Open Source ribbon wrapped around a glowing server rack tagged with a dollar price under spotlight.

Nvidia ships Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: free model, paid hardware

Addy Crezee 28 Apr 2026 1 min read

Executive slams a $0.87 invoice on a boardroom table next to a torn $30.21 bill as two suited men watch under graffiti walls.

Deepseek is starting a price war on the ai market

Addy Crezee 26 Apr 2026 1 min read

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