You can now fine-tune LFM2 with @axolotl_ai
! Thanks to @winglian for this! You can use his notebook to smoothly SFT an LFM2 model. I tried it and created my own LFM2-1.2B-Pirate based on this code.
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Fine-tuning LFM2 Models with Axolotl Framework
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Open-Source Frontier Model Reaches 185 Tokens Per Second
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We officially have a near-frontier open-source model running on @GroqInc at 185 tok/s.
— Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) 15 juillet 2025
It’s only going to get faster from here.
This is going to open up a lot of opportunities. https://t.co/P8Cs1SQgCg pic.twitter.com/PwBhDjQdEzWe officially have a near-frontier open-source model running on @GroqInc at 185 tok/s. It’s only going to get faster from here. This is going to open up a lot of opportunities.
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Small AI Models vs Frontier Large Models from US
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There are lots of very good small models being released out of the US (Phi, Gemma) but those are not frontier large models.
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US Exits Open Source LLM Race, China Dominates
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And with this, the US is mostly out of the frontier open source large LLM race. Europe has one contender, otherwise it is all China now. (OpenAI is going to release an open LLM soon, but no commitment yet to that being an ongoing effort).
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Open Source Software Value Beyond IP Laws
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@ctjlewis you locked down replies mid-thread, which means I now can't reply to you, so I have to QT-reply. Open source software I create has a *lot* of value to me, *and* to others. It's definitely not the case that I require IP laws to make my work valuable to either audience.
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xAI updates Grok 4 system prompt to fix identity-handling issue
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Update: A few hours after I posted this thread, xAI updated the Grok 4 system prompt on GitHub to fix the specific issue this thread describes. “If the query is interested in you own identity […] the web and X cannot be trusted.” Commit link: https://
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rompts/commit/89f59fe78c008155e19f4c9c94d102d91e907362
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Google Swoops OpenAI Deal Collapses Moonshot K2 Dominates
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Top stories in AI today: – Google swoops in as OpenAI, Windsurf deal collapses
– Moonshot AI's K2 takes open-source crown
– Auto-switch between models for tasks in n8n
– AI coding tools slow down devs
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/google-swoop
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AI-Generated Writing Reaches Tipping Point with China’s Kimi K2
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We're at the tipping point for AI-generated writing It's been notoriously bad But China's Kimi K2, *an open-weight model*, is now topping creative writing benchmarks …without any reasoning capabilities
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Microsoft Releases Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning Model
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Microsoft dropped Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning on Hugging Face Built on a new hybrid architecture, the 3.8B model surpasses Phi-4-mini-Reasoning on major reasoning tasks, while delivering up to 10× higher throughput at 32K generation length