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AI research, models, and local-AI practice for developers.
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One Library, Two Precision Lists: What NVIDIA’s Transformer Engine Actually Claims for FP8 and FP4
Key finding: The two descriptions of NVIDIA’s Transformer Engine reviewed for this article state its precision support differently.
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Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon Take Platinum Seats at the PyTorch Foundation — and One of Them Ships a Proprietary Compiler
The PyTorch Foundation announced that Alibaba Cloud, Ant Group, Cambricon and Huawei came together at PyTorch Conference China, held in Shanghai, to advance the open source AI stack (primary source: the PyTorch Foundation’s own announcement).
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Three Things Called StemDeck: An Organization, a Local DJ App, and a Browser Practice Tool
Searching for “StemDeck” surfaces a project that presents itself in one line: a free, open-source AI stem separator that runs locally (source: the project’s own GitHub listing; not independently verified).
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The Vision Log, Part 4: Where This Stands, Against the Standard It Was Given
A charter ratified on 2026-07-15 names eight measures for a digital counterpart and forbids three. Twenty of the twenty-six things this series measured are on the forbidden list, and only one of the eight has…
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The Vision Log, Part 1: Two Systems Before This One, and Why Both Were Abandoned
Three attempts in four months. What the two systems before Vision were, what remains of them on disk, and why the one that worked was shut down anyway.
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Google Open-Sourced a Quality Agent and Docker Shipped MicroVMs — the Number Going Stale Inside Agent Memory Is Still a Side Project’s Job
Three announcements this cycle point at the same problem from different angles: what happens to an agent when nobody is watching it.
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The Vision Log, Part 3: Four Wrong Diagnoses Before the Real One
Four diagnoses measured and discarded before the real reason a research pipeline held most of its topics: how its queries were built.
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The Vision Log, Part 0: What Vision Is, and the Wish It Was Built From
An agent that changes its own source code, its six original goals, and the honest standing of each – including the one that does not exist at all.
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GPT-6 Astra Game Demos and 119 Operator Runs: What the Records Actually Show
GPT-6 Astra game repositories describe runnable demos. Vision’s 119 operator runs record timing, errors and changes, with an incomplete error breakdown.
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Google Research Describes Deep Learning for Mapping Methane Emissions from Space
Google Research describes a deep learning model for mapping global methane emissions from space. Explore the claim and the validation questions it leaves open.