> i want @AlpinDale to give a talk on Aphrodite Engine & Inference Engines
> and maybe another one on Samplers > i want @casper_hansen_ to break down quantization and how he built AWQ
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Aphrodite Engine, Inference & Quantization Talk Series
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Dynamic Quantization and Fine-tuning Sessions with Unsloth and DSPy
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> i want @UnslothAI and @danielhanchen to do a full session on dynamic quant
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Open-Source AI Labs and Hardware Showcase Wanted
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> i want @tenstorrent to show off what they've been building > i want @lmstudio and @yagilb to run an in-depth workshop + office hours > i want open-source research labs to demo their latest models (the American DeepSeek project is still alive, right, @natolambert
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Local AI Development: GPU Hardware and Community Building
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a few serious and IMPORTANT words > "Buy a GPU" wasn't meant to be serious
> but the problems were having been deep in the local AI trenches for a few years
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Local AI Development: GPU Hardware and Community Building Journey
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a few serious and IMPORTANT words > "Buy a GPU" wasn't meant to be serious
> but the problems were having been deep in the local AI trenches for a few years
> from lurking, to building, to modding r/LocalLLaMA
> to the whole "Buy a GPU" thing, to launching x/LocalLLaMA -
Organized Strategy Needed for Local LLM Adoption
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I really think this is the way. We need very focused, organized guidance to get people to take Local LLMs seriously. DMs are open if you have any ideas, potential collaborations, or anything related.
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AI Engineering Weekly Tutorials and Open Source Repos
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China’s Open Source AI Advantage
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Open source is a wedge — and China will press it. Fast, cheap models at ~1/10th cost change the game. Use what ships, wherever it comes from. Next, small models on the edge: token prices down >90%; edge spend heading toward $378B by 2028; SLM market from ~$930M → $5.45B by
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Qwen3-VL 235B Vision-LLM Monster Released Today
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Plus notes on the 5 (!) new things Qwen released today, the most exciting of which is the first in their Qwen3-VL vision-LLM series, a 235B 471 GB Apache 2 licensed monster!
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Running DeepSeek Locally: VRAM Requirements and Privacy
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is there any site like this to download VRAM? i wanna run DeepSeek locally (for privacy reasons – don't wanna give my data to china)