Indeed. Just speaking about the US in light of the TSMC announcement, but this is not lost on me. Writing on it now.
HARDWARE
-

QwQ-32B Matches DeepSeek R1 at 20X Smaller Scale
By
–
DeepSeek just got DeepSeek'd. QwQ-32B is on par with DeepSeek R1 671B but ~20X smaller. AGI will run on your computer. Then it'll run on your phone.
-
Apple’s New AI Computer Challenges Government Data Privacy Norms
By
–
Apple's iPad post yesterday was a miss. But they just dropped the best computer you can buy for AI. They're fighting literal governments to keep your data private. They even kneecap themselves to do it. For all their faults we don't appreciate them enough.
-

Meta PARTNR Demo: Insights and Challenges in Human-Robot Collaboration
By
–
By sharing some of the insights and challenges in developing the Meta PARTNR demo, we hope to contribute to the development of the next wave of innovation in human-robot collaboration. Research paper https://
go.fb.me/prlg14
Dataset and code https://
go.fb.me/k9dzc0 -

Apple Mac Studio 512GB: The Ultimate AI Computing Machine
By
–
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio is no joke. Forget that most PCs max out at 128GB. That's not even VRAM. At 512GB of unified memory you're competing with multiple 5-figure $ GPUs. This can run DeepSeek R1 and basically anything else. There is no better computer for AI.
-
New MacBook Air Sky Blue Color Upgrade Consideration
By
–
Bought a new MacBook Air 4 months. Seriously considering trading in for Sky Blue!
-
Local Image Generation with Stable Diffusion and GPU Comparison
By
–
mostly I do image stuff locally, so like Stable Diffusion. I like the Wildcard and Juggernaut families of models for everyday stuff but there are a lot of good photorealistic models if you're going for people. but when I use a rented GPU in the cloud with similar stats, it does
-
Mac Studio Falls Short for Generative AI Compared to Nvidia
By
–
I love my mac studio but man I wish that it was halfway as good as an nvidia card when it comes to generative AI If I had these stats but nvidia it would be game on