AMD's ATOM and vLLM-ATOM inference engines were optimized for high-interactivity LLM inference, targeting responsiveness for single users rather than batch throughput. The optimizations focus on remov…
Only two AI labs in 2025–2026 published a dated, on-record reason before withholding open-weights releases, according to a new analysis: Z.ai held GLM-5.3 for fourteen days in August 2026, and OpenAI …
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen 3.8 27B open-weights model delivers roughly double the intelligence and capability of last year's OpenAI gpt-oss models on the same hardware, according to software engineer Willia…
DeepGrove's Maple-Preview 20B-A1B, an open-source ternary-weight reasoning model with a 5.31 GB checkpoint, runs locally on a base Mac mini M4 at 218 tokens per second, according to the company. The m…
DeepGrove released Maple-Preview, an open-weight 20B-A1B ternary-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model that runs at 218 tokens per second on an Apple Mac mini M4, with a 5.31 GB checkpoint and a 1…
OpenAI chief Sam Altman is renewing his 'democratic AI' pitch, framing the AI race as a binary between U.S.-led democracies and authoritarian governments, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes for t…
A human blogger built an AI slop machine despite writing every word of their blog manually. American and Chinese AI labs release increasingly strong open-weights large language models that can be self…
A researcher who previously warned about existential AI threats now advocates for broader access to cutting-edge systems, reflecting a shift in the AI safety community. The debate intensified after An…
Mantic Think launched a free, private web UI for Ollama models that allows users to chat with Ollama Cloud models using their own API key or connect to a local Ollama instance. The platform requires n…