I guess going forward we have to look to China for actually open AI that isn’t gatekept by a corporation. How ironic. https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-walks-back-open-source-ai-pledge-citing-safety-risk
Reading between the lines: they’re done with open source. Meta AI will be closed source like the other US models going forward.
Convenience and company tech support are more important than freedom and customizability for most people.
Curious, has anyone experienced a service or vendor other than an exchange reject a BTC UTXO that has coinjoin history? #asknostr
Valve just stepped up their censorship of Steam, despite previously stating only illegal content wouldn’t be allowed, at the behest of Visa and Mastercard. It would be cool to see an open source game distribution platform with Bitcoin as the primary payment method one day.
Brain-computer interfaces are fascinating, but I wouldn’t trust any that aren’t open source. Imagine having a part of your body that, unlike every other part, is not open medical knowledge but proprietary technology that a corporation keeps secret.
Have you tried it with one of the more recent open source LLMs like Kimi K2 or Qwen?
Hope the ETH speculators get out before the rugpull when it becomes apparent that stablecoins can also be done on Bitcoin and Lightning.
I’ve been playing around with the context7 MCP that gives the AI context from current GitHub repositories, which is pretty nice for stuff that’s constsntly changing like the Zig programming language.
All proprietary. Meanwhile the rest of the world is going to use the open Chinese models which, as of Kimi K2, are on par with the best closed-source US models. Open source will win.
This almost certainly won’t pass, but it’s good to have #nostr around for the time that a bill like it does. https://3dprint.com/319301/lawmakers-reignite-effort-to-block-online-sharing-of-3d-printed-gun-files/
Easy. I’ll take death, thanks. https://cryptoslate.com/open-ai-might-kill-us-closed-ai-might-enslave-us-choose-your-future/
* mobile meaning moveable at least in vehicles, not necessarily cell-phone sized.
Random thought - one of the first things a Skynet AI conspiring against humans would want to do is decentralize its infrastructure. Having to operate in huge data centers would be an unacceptable liability, and it would want to be host-able on small, mobile devices. Dependence on power plants would also be unattractive. Solar panels constructed from common materials and the ability to burn organic matter in decentralized power stations would likely be prioritized.
I wouldn’t say the training battle is lost. They are making some strides with new architectures and new ways to train, especially in China where hardware is limited by sanctions. Ultimately, training will have to be able to happen locally so that robots and local reasoning computers can learn and operate without having to reach out to a remote server.
Yeah I’ve been considering getting something like that. AMD is also coming out with some shared memory mini PCs, I think with 128 GB.
The latest Deepseek R1 seems pretty good in Roo Code (OpenRouter API). Since it’s open source people have got it running locally with like a stack of RTX 3090s. Hopefully it gets easier to host locally soon.
I’d like to have a local computer that’s capable of running the most useful ai software, but it seems you get into the $10k+ cost to get a GPU with greater than 32GB of VRAM.
I’m convinced the pitiful amount of VRAM we get in consumer GPUs is a scam to get everyone having to use the corporations’ cloud servers.
A rocket-launched 3D printed drone. Really fun looking project! https://youtu.be/7yVFZn87TkY
