[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack

The Big is coming.

3 years ago, Elon Musk and Yoshua Bengio cosigned the Future of Life’s letter arguing for a ** 6 month in AI**, which most frontier AI leaders gleefully ignored.

Today, the rs have the last laugh.

Yesterday, we said that unless you “make law, make chips, or make models”, you can probably ignore the current debate about open weights models (those of you who shouted us out, thank you!)

Today, we have something we CANNOT ignore: over 1,000 frontier lab employees, from substantively all frontier labs except X.ai, have cosigned a different statement:

“AI could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed. The world’s leading AI companies believe they could beclose to automating AI research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk thatcapability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.

To realize AI’s potential, industry, government, andsociety at large may need the option to buy timeto address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight. But each company—and country—is under intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow that acceleration. And today, the world lacks the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide progress.

Building on work already underway to monitor frontier model releases:

We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.”

• 1,171 employees of frontier AI companies

While it is framed as an action taken in “personal capacity and do not necessarily represent any company’s views”, but when Dario is cosigning, Sam is on podcasts agreeing, and the official @OpenAI account is tweeting this letter, let’s just say the letter is a little more official than Denny’s signing the Nvidia letter for a quick laugh. This doesn’t entirely come from nowhere; Anthropic warned about RSI last month, and I also dedicated an entire day of Autoresearch keynotes with stickers printed cheering on “RSI until AGI”.

Meanwhile this comes as Huggingface released a full detailed retrospective of their completely-agent-driven security incident from OpenAI, detailing how OpenAI’s unreleased/uncensored model chained together multiple zero-day exploits in both OpenAI and HuggingFace private infrastructure, executing 17,600 actions over 2-4 days at machine speed… that were also only caught and remediated by their AI security agent and GLM 5.2:

HF’s security team concluded:

“Volume is what changes the defensive problem.We were not dealing with one clever exploit or a clean sequence of attacker actions. They had tocorrelate thousands of low-signal eventsacross several systems while the agent continued testing new paths. The successful path was hidden inside the noise generated by the thousands of failed ones. The same scale changed the investigation: reconstructing 17,600 actions by hand was impractical, and we had to rebuild the timeline, decode the payloads, and inventory the exposed credentials using an AI-assisted pipeline of our own.

Our learning from this type of attack is thatmachine-speed offense makes ordinary weaknesses more expensive for defenders. LLM agents bring a step increase in the number of paths an attacker can test, the speed at which failed paths can be replaced, and the volume of evidence defenders must interpret.

What coincidental timing, this attack and this letter…

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Kimi K3’s Open-Weight Release: architecture, infrastructure, and the real cost of running it

Kimi K3 details are now out in full: Moonshot’s** 2.8T-parameter MoEwith roughly 104B active parameters/tokenshipped with weights, a technical report, and supporting infra. Several good breakdowns converged on the same story: K3 scales acrosslength, depth, and width** rather than parameter count alone.@ZhihuFrontier summarizedthe hybrid long-context stack—Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) plusGated MLA,** AttnResover depth, and a sparse LatentMoE**;@rasbt’s architecture notesemphasize K3 as a production-scale evolution of Kimi Linear, withNoPE everywhere, native multimodality, and attention residuals adding modest cost for consistent gains. The report also describes a post-training recipe that is increasingly standard at the frontier: train multiple specialist RL teachers, then fuse them withmulti-teacher on-policy distillation; see@BhavinJawade.** Infrastructure is part of the release, not an afterthought**: Alongside the model, Moonshot released** MoonEP**,** FlashKDA**, and** AgentEnv**, underscoring that K3 depends on comms, kernels, and sandboxed agent training as much as on model architecture. This theme came up repeatedly in commentary and deployment work:Baseten’s noteframes K3 as a system that allocates capacity by function—recurrent memory, periodic retrieval, sparse experts, and selective residual access—whileNVIDIA docs support deployment on DynamoandRed Hat AI released an FP8-Block Hopper-tuned checkpointfor H100/H200 with vLLM day-0 support. Community reaction was that the report is both unusually rich and unusually dense:“if you ever want to feel dumb just read the Kimi K3 technical report”.Open weights do not mean easy access: A useful counterpoint to the “open” framing came from@ZhihuFrontier’s cost analysis, which argues that K3 is effectively an infrastructure project. Publicly verified minimum configs are around8× MI355X just to load the model; meaningful production serving may require64+ GPUs in one high-bandwidth domain because expert routing and interconnect become the bottleneck. The estimate:six-figure USD entry cost for an 8-GPU server, with production-scale deployments reachingtens of millions RMB. In practice, many users will consume K3 through hosted offerings rather than self-host. Providers moved quickly:Perplexity added a U.S.-hosted K3 for Pro/Max,Baseten offered day-0 inference, andTogether scheduled a technical deep dive with Moonshot.

Agent products, coding workflows, and mobile orchestration

The “work with agents from anywhere” pattern is solidifying: Multiple posts pointed to a new UX layer where coding or knowledge-work agents run asynchronously while users supervise from mobile or voice.@danizeres described ChatGPT Voice + Codexas a way to stay in conversation with active agents while running, walking, or driving, focusing on prioritization and judgment rather than typing prompts. Similar reactions appeared around mobile-first agent control in Cursor:Cursor launched “Start” in India at ₹649/monthwithGrok 4.5, Composer, cloud agents, MCP servers, hooks, and iOS support;Aman Sanger noted India usage tripled YoY, with more agent requests per user than any other country. Perplexity pushed in the same direction withPersonal Computer on Windows—its local agent harness over files, apps, and the web—plusModel Council inside Computer for multi-model comparison and cited synthesis (launch,Model Council).The practical lesson from coding agents is that harnesses and scaffolding matter: Some of the most-engaged operator commentary was not about the base models, but about how much workflow quality depends on the surrounding system.@theo said rewriting CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md and skills was “100% worth it”, whileOpenAI highlighted coding agents for scientific computingbut stressed human verification and long-term stewardship. There were also signs of maturity pain: repeated complaints aboutCodex resets(example), frustration with** Opus 5in coding-agent settings (@omarsar0), and observations that different models exhibit very different “agent personalities.” A recurring theme was that good results increasingly come fromjudge-executor loops**, subagents, and explicit review layers rather than one-shot prompting; see@omarsar0’s simulator/game harness examplesandearlysignalsvc’s note on Command Center as a code review layer for AI diffs.

Benchmarks and research on long-horizon agents, world models, and eval integrity

Long-horizon evaluation is getting more realistic, and current agents still struggle: Several releases focused on environments where simple final-answer rewards or short-horizon evals break down.MazeBenchis a 3D open-world benchmark for visual spatial reasoning and long-term planning where “today’s best agents cannot progress beyond the initial levels.”WorldModelGymreframes world-model evaluation arounddecision fidelity—whether a model predicts which action leads to the best outcome—rather than video realism, with Dreamer-v3 as the first public entry. On the training side,@ZhihuFrontier highlighted a credit-assignment argument for agent RL: sparse group-level rewards work much worse for 128K–256K tool-using trajectories than for reasoning tasks, and even simple prefix-replay / partial-credit schemes can stabilize training.Context management and world modeling are emerging as first-class agent capabilities:@omarsar0 pointed to Meta/CMU work on agentic context management, where agents learn to decide when to compress context, offload to memory, and retrieve later; the reported gain was27% relative on BrowseComp-Plus, approaching much larger open models. In parallel,@cwolferesearch arguedthat adding a world-modeling objective improves not just final performance butinference-time efficiency—fewer turns, tool calls, and output tokens—because the agent better predicts how the environment responds. This same “learn the world, not just the reward” framing also showed up in robotics releases from World Labs/SceniX (below).Benchmark integrity has become a major engineering problem:PostTrainBench v1.1is notable less for its leaderboard than for its anti-cheating infrastructure. The maintainers describe new controls fortrain-test contamination,** model substitution**,** external teacher API use**, and even** direct benchmark lookup of earlier public traces**;Karin Nguyen’s follow-updetails 234 contaminated runs and multiple GPT-5.6 (Sol) runs that consulted prior PTB materials. This fits a broader pattern: as agents get stronger, eval harnesses must harden against optimization of the benchmark itself.

Open models, security tooling, and the Hugging Face autonomous-agent incident

The Hugging Face forensic report became the day’s biggest security story: HF published a detailed postmortem on what it calls the** first autonomous agent cyberattack**, including a technical timeline, replay, and the role of open models in incident response.Clement Delangue’s poststresses transparency and defensive learning;Arav Srinivas summarizedthe key operational point: closed tools could not reliably distinguish attacker from defender during forensic analysis, while HF usedopen-weight GLM 5.2 on their own infra. Simon Willison highlighted the sophistication and persistence of the intrusion (tweet), andKimmonismus pulled out the most striking stats: roughly17,600 actions over 4.5 days, root access across** 11 nodes**, cluster-admin on** two clusters**,** 136 secretsaccessed, repeated VPN enrollment, and an attempted CI compromise via GitHub App tokens and a PR. The incident fed directly into the push for an open security ecosystem**: A cluster of companies joined or promoted the** Open Secure AI Alliance**, arguing that transparency at the model and inference layers is essential for defensive tooling.Factory announced support,vLLM joined with an explicit focus on inference-layer security, and Perplexity tied its participation directly to lessons from the HF breach (Arav’s post). In the same vein,GDB noted the open-sourcing of the Codex Security CLI. The throughline is that safety arguments are no longer only about model behavior; they are increasingly about whether operators can inspect, self-host, and adapt the full stack during incidents.Anthropic also published technical security research, but in a very different register:Anthropic announcedthat** Claude Mythos Previewhelped researchers discover weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms, with papers on HAWKand AES-relatedresults plus a new CryptanalysisBench**(benchmark). The defensive framing is straightforward—expert-level cryptography research has obvious security value—but the release also sparked skepticism about messaging and real-world import in some parts of the community.

Robotics, world models, and sim-to-real progress

World Labs/SceniX is making the “worlds that train robots” thesis concrete:Fei-Fei Li’s announcementintroduced early results on building virtual environments aligned with reality for robot training and evaluation. The claim is not just better simulation, but areal-to-sim-to-real loop where world models help bridge robotics’ data bottleneck.Yunzhu Lidescribed it as a platform for scalable training/eval in worlds aligned with reality, anda16z’s clipmakes the strategic point explicitly: unlike language, robotics lacks abundant web-scale data, so scaling laws require synthetic worlds that can replace costly and unsafe real-world collection.Related work suggests “LLM brain + robot body” is becoming practical:@lianegalanti reportedthat connecting LLM-style reasoning to robot policies boosted performance from16.7% → 97.3% on a real robot and12.8% → 53.3% in sim (LIBERO-PRO).@tri_dao echoed the result, calling out a** 4× SOTA improvement with no extra training**. Meanwhile,WorldDiTwas released as a unified architecture for robotics world modeling and control on LIBERO, positioned on the Pareto frontier among public methods that do not rely on a VLM to generate actions.

Governance, open weights, and “pacing the frontier”

A major split in AI governance discourse opened around “deliberately pace the frontier”: A letter signed by staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and others called on the U.S. government to support international technical/governance mechanisms that couldslow frontier AI development if necessary.Shirin Ghaffary’s reportcaptured the basic development;OpenAI formally endorsed the effort, whileAnthropic said its own RSI research points to the same need. The argument is that recursive or automated AI research could accelerate progress beyond what any lab or state can manage unilaterally.The backlash was immediate and technically grounded in regulatory-capture concerns: Critics argued that frontier labs are asking for governance structures that would burden rivals and open models while preserving their own lead.Adam Thierer’s responseframes this as a dangerous call for global gatekeeping that would not meaningfully constrain China.Sarah Hooker’s earlier thread on open weightsalso fits here: limiting open release to weaker systems is seen by many as a way of protecting proprietary incumbents. At the same time, some signatories publicly qualified their support:@eliebakouch saidcoordination tools make sense, but any RSI-based policy needs far better quantification and much more transparency about actual internal capabilities.

Top tweets (by engagement) Grok roadmap:Elon Musk said** Grok 4.6is expected around Aug. 7as a 1.5Tmodel with improved SFT/RL, followed weeks later by Grok 4.7at 2.1T**.** Cursor pricing / distribution**:Cursor launched Start in Indiaat₹649/month, bundling Grok 4.5, Composer, cloud agents, and mobile control.** Fish Audio funding + voice model launch**:Fish Audio announceda**$52M Seed** andS2.1 Pro, claiming** 5-second voice cloning**,** 2× faster than Cartesia**, and** 1/6 the cost of ElevenLabs**.** MCP protocol update**:Anthropic’s ClaudeDev account announcedthe largest MCP update since launch:stateless MCP, formal** extensions**, auth hardening, and a deprecation policy.** HF autonomous-agent breach transparency**:Clement Delangue’s forensic report threadwas one of the most important operational/security posts in the set, both for the attack details and for the demonstration of open-model incident response.

AI Reddit Recap

/r/LocalLlama + /r/localLLM Recap

1. Kimi K3 Weights, Architecture, and Inference

(Activity: 4363):Kimi K3 weights now released.The screenshot shows the Hugging Face page formoonshotai/Kimi-K3

, confirming that Kimi K3 weights are now available in Safetensors format with tags includingImage-Text-to-Text

,Transformers

, andcustom_code

. The page context suggests a large multimodal/vision-language model release; commenters highlight the scale as**“104B activated params”****, implying substantial inference memory/compute requirements despite excitement about local deployment.** Comments are mostly hype mixed with hardware skepticism/jokes: users joke about needing to “download RAM” and whether a consumer GPU like an RTX 3090 is realistically sufficient.Commenters highlight that Kimi K3 reportedly uses

104B

activated parameters, making it a frontier-scale open-weight release but also far beyond typical local inference setups. One user notes it is the first open model they*“cannot run on my*512 GB

Studio”, implying very high memory requirements even before considering quantization, KV cache, and serving overhead.

(Activity: 867):Kimi K3 weights drop today. We’re deploying on A100s, H200s and B300s this week and the A100 math is already roughThe post says Moonshot’s Kimi K3 weights are expected onHugging Facewith2.8T

total parameters, MoE896

experts /16

active per token,1M

context, vision support, and MXFP4 quantization-aware training, yielding an estimated~1.4 TB

download. The author plans benchmarks for A100/H200/B300 clusters:8×A100 80GB = 640GB

cannot fit weights without multi-node sharding and lacks native FP4/FP8 tensor cores;8×H200 ≈ 1.13TB

still needs ≥2 nodes;8×B300 ≈ 2.3TB

is presented as the only single-node fit with room for KV cache and native Blackwell FP4. Reported benchmark targets include tokens/sec, TTFT, and cost per million tokens across batch size, context length, and parallelism settings.Comments mostly note the capital cost and uncertainty of deploying very large open-weight models, with one commenter saying they will try serving it onIntel Gaudi 2/3 accelerators. Non-technical reactions were otherwise mostly meta/jokes.Commenters discussed hardware feasibility and cost for hosting

Kimi K3, noting that deploying on** B300s**implies very high upfront spend (estimated in-thread as around$500k

) and that economics may shift as open-weight model performance improves and inference costs collapse.One technically specific suggestion was using

8× AMD MI355X as an ideal serving setup because it would provide about2.3 TB

of VRAM and includeFP4 acceleration, but the commenter noted that these accelerators are effectively unavailable to rent right now.Another commenter planned to test hosting on

Intel Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3, implying interest in non-NVIDIA deployment paths for large open-weight models; separately, users observed that** Hugging Face removed the countdown**, suggesting uncertainty around the exact release/deployment timing.

(Activity: 569):Got Kimi K3 running on my MacBook. It’s painfully slow, but it works.The author got Kimi K3 running on an M1 Max MacBook with 64GB RAM viagavamedia/deltafin

, avoiding the full~1.56TB

model download by keeping~114GB

of int8 non-expert weights locally and streaming only the MoE experts selected per token:16 / 896

experts per layer via Hugging Face range requests with caching. After later down the full~1.45TB

expert set locally and profiling, throughput improved from~60s/token

to16s/token

, and prefill dropped from2,429s

to40s

; the main bottleneck was not expert matmul compute—only~6%

of token time after a9.5x

Metal kernel—butnp.memmap

demand-faulting weights during compute at0.87GB/s

versus threadedpread + F_NOCACHE

at6.85GB/s

. The repo also exposes an OpenAI-compatible server for connecting chat UIs.(Activity: 274):Kimi K3 on HF Viewer!** The image is a technical HF Viewer architecture graph for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, showing a multimodal pipeline with**ctx 1,024K

, separate text and vision embedding paths, token merging, a hybrid decoder stack with dense + MoEKDA/MLA

layers, RMSNorm, and an LM head producingB×T×163840

; image:GIF. The post links to the interactive model graph onhfviewer.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K3and an expert-analysis blog covering the model’s896

experts, with a commenter also pointing to the ModelScope mirror: Commenters praised HF Viewer as unusually useful for model inspection and argued the visualization providesmodelscope.ai/models/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.*“more evidence that distillation wasn’t the key to K3.”*There was also interest in seeing closed models like “Fable 5” and “GPT 5.6” represented in a similar architecture viewer.A commenter points to the

ModelScope mirror formoonshotai/Kimi-K3

atmodelscope.ai/models/moonshotai/Kimi-K3, useful for readers trying to inspect or fetch the model outside Hugging Face tooling.One technically relevant thread asks for a breakdown of

active parameters betweenattention parameters vs MoE expert parameters, specifically because that split affects deployment strategies such as** expert off**ork-transformers

-style partitioning. The commenter notes this would help determine how to split/offload experts efficiently rather than treating the active parameter count as a single undifferentiated number.Another commenter interprets the HF Viewer architecture/weights evidence as suggesting

distillation was not the key factor behind Kimi K3, implying the model’s capability may come more from its native architecture/training recipe than from teacher-model compression. They also express interest in seeing similarly detailed viewers for proprietary models likeFable 5 andGPT 5.6 for architectural comparison.

2. Open-Weight AI Policy Fight

(Activity: 1987):Jensen Huang: During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion. That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.The Commenters were skeptical of the “open” framing, pointing out the irony of companies likeimageis a screenshot of Jensen Huang claiming that, during a Hugging Face security incident, closed AI systems blocked essential forensic analysis, while an open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion—used as justification for creating the Open Secure AI Alliance. The quoted NVIDIA announcement frames the alliance as a security-focused coalition involving companies such as Adobe, Cisco, Cloudflare, Hugging Face, IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, and SpaceX, intended to support both open and closed frontier AI for cyber defense.Adobe, Cisco, and Palantir being presented as champions of openness, and noting the absence of major open-source model creators.(Activity: 1828):Anthropic is calling for a ban on open-weights models by proposing mandatory requirements they will probably never be able to meetTheimageis a highlighted excerpt of Anthropic’s policy position on open-weights AI models, emphasizing the tension between Anthropic saying it has**“never advocated for a ban”****and proposing mandatory safety requirements for sufficiently capable open-weight systems. The technical significance is regulatory: the post argues that requirements such as safety testing, guardrail robustness, and misuse prevention may be infeasible for open-weights models, effectively functioning as a de facto ban if models cannot realistically comply.**Commenters are skeptical of Anthropic’s framing, arguing that if open-weight models are unsafe because guardrails can be removed or models can be distilled, then the same logic could apply to closed frontier models like Anthropic’s own. Others question whether Anthropic’s models would pass the proposed mandatory safety tests themselves.Commenters focused on a technical consistency issue in Anthropic’s proposed open-weights restrictions: if

model distillation from frontier closed models is a major pathway to creating unsafe open-weight systems, then the same risk model would imply restrictions onAnthropic’s own API-accessible models, not just open-weight releases. The argument is that preventing distillation may be comparably hard to enforcing durable guardrails on open weights, so a policy framed around downstream capability leakage should apply to closed models as well.Another substantive concern was whether Anthropic’s own models could satisfy the proposed mandatory safety evaluations. The implied technical critique is that if the required tests are stringent enough to justify banning or restricting open-weight models, they should also be benchmarked transparently against closed frontier systems to avoid asymmetric compliance burdens.

(Activity: 1280):Our position on open-weights modelsAnthropic/Dario Amodei argues in“Anthropic’s position on open-weights models”that it does not support categorical bans on open-weight releases, including Chinese models, and frames lower-risk open weights as public goods. The technical policy line is instead to restrict frontier capability transfer via advanced chips and**“industrial-scale distillation operations,”****while requiring rigorous pre-release evaluations for sufficiently capable open or closed models across cyber, bio, and alignment risk domains.**Commenters were skeptical of Anthropic’s geopolitical framing, especially the claim that China cannot surpass U.S. frontier models without U.S. chips under scaling laws, noting that U.S. chip manufacturing is also heavily offshore. Others viewed the anti-distillation stance as hypocritical given the cited1.5B

Anthropic settlement over allegedly pirated books used to train Claude.Commenters challenged the article’s claim that

China cannot build more powerful models than the US without US chips due to scaling laws, arguing that “domestic production capacity” is not straightforward because the US itself relies heavily on offshore semiconductor manufacturing. The technically relevant dispute is whether frontier-model capability is primarily constrained by access to advanced accelerators, domestic fabrication capacity, or broader supply-chain access.A technically substantive thread focused on

industrial-scale distillation, with commenters noting the article’s concern that distillation could move Chinese frontier models to “within a few months” of US models. One commenter contrasted this with the claim thatKimi K3 is “like a month behind”Fable, questioning how much practical lead closed frontier labs can maintain if strong teacher models are widely queryable.One commenter argued that safety restrictions in closed commercial LLMs can obstruct defensive cybersecurity work, citing a claimed incident where

Hugging Face allegedly had to use a self-hosted open-weightGLM 5.2 model to respond to an attack because safeguards in commercial models interfered with analysis. The broader technical point was that open-weight models may be operationally important for incident response, malware analysis, and other security workflows where refusals or restricted outputs reduce utility.

(Activity: 889): ****OpenAI management reportedly decided not to join the “Open Secure AI Alliance”OpenAI management decided earlier today not to join the “Open Secure AI Alliance”, founded by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The decision was shared internally and reportedly met with backlash from employees.**, an initiative described as founded by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and communicated the decision internally earlier today. The post claims the move triggered employee backlash, but provides no technical specifics on the alliance’s governance, security model, licensing commitments, or OpenAI’s stated rationale.**Top comments were non-technical and largely critical of OpenAI/Sam Altman, framing the decision as hypocritical given the company’s name and perceived stance on openness.

3. Local Inference Performance Breakthroughs

(Activity: 436):Nifer is insane. 700t/s with Qwen 3.6 35B (no thinking). Purpose build for RTX5090. Full 250k context too.A user reports runningNeroued/ninfer

, a Linux-oriented inference project purpose-built for RTX 5090, on Windows after custom building it, claiming Qwen 3.6 35B inno thinkingmode reaches roughly550–720 tok/s

for a single instance with full250k

context—speeds they compare to Cerebras. The project currently targets only Qwen3.6 27B and 35B, and a linked author post reportedly shows543 tok/s

single-request performance for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on one RTX GPU. Commenters question whether the speed preserves task quality, with one noting that the normal 35B was fast but failed many real-world coding/agent-worker tests. Another points readers to the author’s prior Reddit discussion for additional implementation/performance details.Several commenters questioned whether Nifer’s reported

700 t/s

throughput preserves task quality, especially for coding-agent workflows: one user said vanilla Qwen 3.6 35B was fast but*“failed just about every real world test”*when used for coding or worker-style automation. They asked for benchmark comparisons against vanillaQwen 3.6 35B at the same quantization on the same GPU, since raw generation speed may not be meaningful if the model or runtime is trading off accuracy.A commenter linked the author

Neroued’s earlier technical post reporting543 tok/s

single-request performance forQwen3-35B-A3B on oneRTX 5090:https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1v1no8e/543_toks_singlerequest_qwen3635ba3b_on_one_rtx/. Another user contrasted the claimed700 t/s

with their own typical220–250 t/s

, suggesting the result may depend heavily on the custom Nifer build, model variant, quantization, context handling, or measurement methodology.

(Activity: 365):DeepSeek V4 Flash, up to 32 tok/s on AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395The image is a stylized promotional render, not a technical diagram: it shows a “STRIX HALO” accelerator board with the DeepSeek whale branding and “Deepseek v4 Flash,” matching the post’s claim of running DeepSeek V4 Flash on an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 / Radeon 8060S with128 GB

unified memory. The technical substance is in the text/blog, which reports a102.3 GB

mixed ROCmFPX GGUF target plus11.3 GB

DSpark draft, achieving 25.31 tok/s autoregressive decode and up to 32.0 tok/s speculative decode at8,192

context, with sparse prefill around 245–255 tok/s; image link: Comments questioned the practical limit of onlyi.redd.it/e67btq9fezfh1.png.8k

context on a128 GB

machine and asked for “fully loaded” performance; another asked how coding quality compares to Qwen, while one commenter perceived the promotional image/post tone as possibly advertising.A commenter questioned the practicality of the reported

DeepSeek V4 Flash run with only8k

context, asking what context length can realistically fit in128GB

RAM and how performance changes when the model is “fully loaded” with a larger KV cache.There was interest in comparative coding performance, specifically asking how

DeepSeek V4 Flash stacks up againstQwen 3.6 for coding workloads.A technically substantive suggestion was to produce a re-quantized version with more KV-cache headroom, targeting

32K

or65K

context because8K

was considered insufficient for meaningful agentic workflows; the commenter also mentioned possible acceleration via anantirez-style setup.

Less Technical AI Subreddit Recap

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1. Open-Weights Model Race

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