open source ai

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A developer's laptop screen showing a terminal window running a local AI model

I compared Ollama, vLLM and LM Studio — only one of them survives a second user

at one person typing, all three are basically tied. add a second and the gap turns into a cliff

Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 7 min

Mark Zuckerberg speaking about Meta's AI strategy

meta just promised to open-source the AI model that actually rivals GPT and Claude

Muse Spark 1.2 isn't the laptop-sized model Meta gave away last week — it's the one built to fight Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 head-on, and Zuckerberg just said it's going free too.

Lena Fischer · Aug 13 · 6 min

An Nvidia RTX graphics card, the kind of single consumer GPU Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed to run on

Hardware

jensen huang's first-ever X post begged for open AI. three weeks later, nvidia delivered

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30-billion-parameter model with only about 3 billion active per token — Nvidia says that's why it runs up to 4x faster than comparable open models on a single consumer GPU.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 13 · 7 min

rows of server infrastructure representing large-scale cloud computing

Hardware

Alibaba just open-sourced a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model — good luck ever running it yourself

it beats Claude on some benchmarks and rivals GPT on others, and it's free to download next week. here's the hardware math that ruins the fun.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 7 min