I wrote about the new Qwen3 Coder model here, including details on how I got it running on my Mac using LM Studio, Open WebUI, mlx-lm and my own LLM command-line tool https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qw
en3-coder-flash/
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Running Qwen3 Coder on Mac with LM Studio and Open WebUI
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CEOs and Technical Debt: Understanding Future Payment Obligations
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CEOs take on technical debt all the time, that's why it's a useful metaphor: you can chose to take on technical debt, but you have to acknowledge that payments will come due
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Stargate Norway to Deliver 100k NVIDIA GPUs by 2026
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100k NVIDIA GPUs for Europe Stargate Norway is planned to deliver 230MW of capacity, with ambitions to expand by an additional 290MW. The facility will target to deliver 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026, with the intention to expand significantly in the years ahead.
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MLX Model Requires 96GB RAM, Runs Space Invaders Game
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This full precision MLX model needs 63.5GB of RAM while running (so likely needs a Mac with 96GB or 128GB) – but its space invaders is fully functional! https://t.co/0TVkYrAIxV
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 31 juillet 2025This full precision MLX model needs 63.5GB of RAM while running (so likely needs a Mac with 96GB or 128GB) – but its space invaders is fully functional!
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4-bit Quantized Qwen3 Coder Model Runs Space Invaders
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Looks like this 4bit quantized MLX model uses about 35GB ofRAM to run a prompt and produces an almost-working space invaders https://t.co/S9b64sxYlq https://t.co/y8k0SspsgM
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 31 juillet 2025Looks like this 4bit quantized MLX model uses about 35GB ofRAM to run a prompt and produces an almost-working space invaders https://
huggingface.co/mlx-community/
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-4bit
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Manus AI launches Wide Research for parallel processing
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Manus AI introduced Wide Research 🤖
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 31 juillet 2025
"Wide Research is a system-level mechanism for parallel processing, and a protocol for agent-to-agent collaboration." https://t.co/z6DH8z5sFR pic.twitter.com/bjrTgCThsLManus AI introduced Wide Research "Wide Research is a system-level mechanism for parallel processing, and a protocol for agent-to-agent collaboration."
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Neuromorphic Computing Framework: Scaling Time, Space, Energy
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Neuromorphic Computing: A Theoretical Framework for Time, Space, and Energy Scaling Aimone et al.: https://
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OpenAI Launches First European Data Center in Norway
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OpenAI just announced Stargate Norway, its first data center initiative in Europe The 230MW site will be developed through a JV between Aker and Nscale, with plans to expand by an additional 290MW in the future
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Software and Hardware Performance Improvements Over Time
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people talk a lot about how software has gotten worse over time (‘enshittification’) but my experience on the whole has been the opposite. things seem to get slowly and consistently better: – neither my phone nor my laptop ever lags. not ever
– the internet is faster