… Where open-weight AI models come from is also dramatically different to where closed models originate, as most of the serious releases this year have come out of Chinese labs. Aside from OpenAI's gpt-oss models and Google's Gemma 4 models, there hasn't really been an answer. …
… Given how people have been picking up Mac Minis to power their AI agents, this is huge news for those who want to squeeze more power out of their miniature computers. The drivers should let the Mac Mini tap into the power of a GPU, enabling larger, more capable AI models to run on it. …
… 02 / 8 AI Models Meta's open-weight model family, commonly run on consumer hardware, is known by what name? A Falcon B Gemma C Llama D Mistral Correct! Meta's Llama Large Language Model Meta AI series — including Llama 2 and Llama 3 — has become a cornerstone of the local AI movement. …
… A 32GB card can't even load most of the really game-changing large open-weight models these days. However, hope isn't lost for those models, as the interesting work in local AI has moved to a different kind of machine entirely: unified-memory systems running mixture of experts MoE models. …
… In practice, that means configuring something like this in your coding harness: "nvidia-build": { "baseUrl": "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "nvapi-XXXXXXXXXXX", "models": { "id": "stepfun-ai/step-3.5-flash", "contextWindow": 200000 }, { "id": "minimaxa… …
… If the tech catches on, it's definitely possible we could see the return of SLI, or, at the very least, an "AI accelerator" card that enables these models to run locally on top of standard rasterization. …
… It's impressive, but read between the lines: we're several years into the LLM craze, and if that kind of run can still be newsworthy, it tells you how CUDA-first the training world remains. The broader ecosystem also moves CUDA-first. New models? CUDA first. AI software packages? …
… Rather than offloading entire layers from my GPU and causing the token generation rate to crawl at a snail’s pace, MoE models let me move the less-frequently used experts onto the RAM, with the attention mechanisms remaining on the graphics card. …
… Related 6 GPUs that are officially too old in 2025 These GPUs can no longer bring it in modern titles This only applies to certain GPU models Nvidia has seriously chopped the stock of certain models You can justify a $1200 RTX 5080, and you can definitely justify an RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti at MSRP, bu… …
… Related AMD doesn't want to repeat past mistakes with FSR 4 AMD's AI-assisted FSR 4 releases in a matter of days, and it already has a ton of support. …