America Needs An Open-Source AI Strategy — CNBC

Pretty incredible to see open-weight become a mainstream discussion.

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u/Recoil42 — 21 days ago

Porsche to axe one in five jobs by 2035 as China, EV woes bite

"The job cuts roughly correspond to the decline in sales volume, said Daniel Schwarz, automotive analyst at ​investment bank Metzler. "They are unavoidable in order to reduce costs, because a return to strong ​growth in China is not expected," he said."

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u/Recoil42 — 24 days ago

Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic, ElectronJS) has released a free Mac app designed to help people build their own LLMs from scratch.

Announcement tweet here.

Direct link: Language Model Builder

From the site: "Using the default settings, you’ll get a model that writes coherent, grammatical multi-paragraph text in as little as a day. On a MacBook Pro M5 Max you could train a GPT-2-small-class model (~100–150M parameters on a few billion tokens) in about a week. It might be obvious, but to avoid disappointment: you will not train a Claude Fable 5 or ChatGPT 5.6 Sol in your garage."

u/Recoil42 — 30 days ago