Saw this microgpt . 200 Lines of Python, a 4192 parameter Generative Pre-trained Transformer. There’s some good information here on this type of GPT model, which helps people understand the problems of building these LLM/GPT’s. My thoughts were, could this be recoded into Clarion? Probably, we hav…

Yes, that looks like the important distinction. Microsoft is not exactly being cut loose from OpenAI, but the relationship is clearly becoming less exclusive and more complicated. The OpenAI/Microsoft announcement says Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products still shi…

[image] LANSRAD: The model landscape is going to keep shifting. OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, Meta, and others will keep making moves. The safer long-term habit is not to marry one model or one vendor, but to build workflows that use AI in bounded, reviewable chunks, with enough …

I agree with the concern about vendor lock-in and enshittification. We have all seen enough software and cloud services get worse, more expensive, more restrictive, or more intrusive over time that it would be foolish not to think about control. Where I would make a distinction is between several v…

[image] LANSRAD: No individual developer, and probably no ordinary small company, is going to reproduce the compute, training data, research staff, infrastructure, evaluation pipeline, safety work, and ongoing retraining needed to build and maintain a frontier model. I say this having not loo…

I agree with the “never say never” part. Small teams and outsiders absolutely can produce breakthroughs. History is full of examples where someone outside the center of power saw the problem differently and changed the direction of an entire field. I would not argue against that at all. Where I th…

[image] Ask Good Questions: Do not let AI build the elephant in the room Some of your responses are what I would expect an Ai to come up with. grinning_face

[image] Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model An overview of Gemma 4 12B, a model designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop. [image] Gemma 4 12B: The Developer Guide- Google Develop…

Ask Good Questions: Do not let AI build the elephant in the room Some of your responses are what I would expect an Ai to come up with. grinning_face No surprise there :slight_smile: For the last couple of years I am using AI or researching it about 10-12 hours a day, pretty much 7 days a wee…

A model optimised for mobile devices. [image] Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop... We’re releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints, reducing memory requirements and improving on-device performance.

That’s an interesting direction. To me, this is where local/on-device AI starts getting a lot more practical. Not because I think a phone is suddenly going to replace the big frontier models, but because there are a lot of tasks where you don’t need the biggest model in the world. You need somethi…

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