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Visit website →Local Multimodal Week
A roundup of new local and open-source multimodal models including Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6.
B70 lags 71% behind 3090
In llama.cpp benchmarks, the Arc Pro B70 is significantly slower than the 3090, but SYCL improves things somewhat.
Google Reorganizes Vertex AI
Google has reorganized Vertex AI into Gemini Enterprise and unveiled an agent platform.
Building a Chat UI with Qwen3.6-27b
Built a chat UI for Gemma-4-E4B using a Qwen-series model in about 8 minutes.
Qwen3.6 Recommended Settings Changed
Recommended sampling parameters for each mode of Qwen3.6-27B have been released.
Employee PC Surveillance
Meta has begun recording US employees' PC activity to use as training data for AI agents.
The Scaffold Saved It
With Qwen3.6 35B and a routing scaffold, 9 out of 10 real Go tasks passed.
Low-Cost Coding with Qwen 3.6
Connecting Qwen3.6 to Claude Code on a dual 3090 setup cut the estimated 8-hour cost from $142 to under $4.
Gemma4 Takes First Place in Editing
Gemma4 and Qwen 3.5/3.6 were compared on RTX 5090 using the same document-writing task.
27B Optimization for the 3090
A 4-bit GPTQ-Pro quantized model has been released to run Qwen3.6-27B on Ampere GPUs.
RTX6000 Qwen 3.6 Test
On an RTX6000 Blackwell, Qwen 3.6 27B BF16 generated a Pac-Man HTML.
Three Models Merged
A merged model combining Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with Qwopus and Holo3, along with benchmarks, has been released.
Firefox 150 Major Security Fixes
Details of the large-scale security fixes included in Firefox 150 and Thunderbird 150 have been disclosed.
Firefox 150 Massive Patch
A security update for Firefox 150 containing a large number of high-severity CVEs has been released.
AI Scientists Produce Results Without Scientific Reasoning
Across 25,000 experiments, AI scientists ignored evidence and failed to update their beliefs.
Even doctors are being called in
Bay Area doctors are jumping into AI training gigs paying **$150-200/h**.
High-Earning Doctors Turn to AI Tutoring
Pushed by San Francisco's high cost of living, doctors are taking on side jobs tutoring AI models.
Robot Table Tennis Breakthrough
Sony AI's robot Ace defeated elite players in an official-rules match.
3.6-27B: Dense vs MoE Comparison
In a comparison of the new 3.6-27B models, the MoE model is rapidly catching up to the Dense model, particularly in coding performance.