I hear that for sure. Whenever I can find and share free alternatives or workarounds to do things for free, I try to share them.
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LoRA Training Preserves Base Model Context Window
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It's just training a very small LoRA you can merge back into the base model, so it should retain the context window!
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Writing RL Agent from Scratch Without Prior Code
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It was a fun exercise recently to just open up a completely blank file and write an RL agent from scratch, without looking at any of my prior code. There is a point of scale where rewriting things from scratch is a bad idea, but it is a blessing when you can! By “from scratch” I
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US Companies Abandoning Open Weights Strategy for Chinese Models
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Open weights is no longer a strategy for US companies – they may release occasional models, but they will reserve their best work for closed models. Companies who want to run open models, and governments thinking about the future of AI, are going to need to rely on Chinese labs.
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Meta Closes Models as Chinese Open Weights Lead Frontier
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Especially notable given Zuckerberg's note that Meta will not necessarily open source future models. US companies are still doing great small open models, but, aside from whatever OpenAI releases, it appears that frontier open weights will mean Chinese models (& maybe Mistral).
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DeepSeek-R1 Model Renaming Controversy and Version Changes
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(Honestly I'm still salty about that time you renamed the deepseek-r1:8B to point at DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B when it had previously pointed at DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B)
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Metis enables easy AI edge deployment with ONNX and PyTorch
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AI at the edge shouldn’t be a trade-off between performance, accuracy, or usability. Metis lets devs deploy, optimise & benchmark with ease using ONNX, PyTorch, YAML & GStreamer. What's even more exciting is it's all available now via @Rutronik →
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Chinese AI Labs Release Major Models: Kimi, GLM, Qwen
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July has been a truly incredible month for model releases from China – Moonshot (Kimi K2), http://
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Neo: First Autonomous ML Engineer Agent Released
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The first autonomous ML Engineer Agent has been released by @withneo! Neo is a multi-agent system that thinks, learns and builds like a real engineer.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 30 juillet 2025
– Perform analysis
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– Prepare training and evaluation pipelines https://t.co/1vvK4ddytw pic.twitter.com/PXN8WnRvYCThe first autonomous ML Engineer Agent has been released by @withneo
! Neo is a multi-agent system that thinks, learns and builds like a real engineer. – Perform analysis
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Meta Developing Personal Superintelligence
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BREAKING : Meta is building Personal Superintelligence! “Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight.”