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If you can't even run GLM 5.2 on affordable hardware, will it be considered "Open"?
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If you can't even run GLM 5.2 on affordable hardware, will it be considered "Open"?

If most solo builders can’t actually run it on affordable hardware, what does “open” really mean?

Because in practice, many builders may still end up using the direct API from the company behind the model, Z.ai (A Chinese firm).

And that changes the whole conversation.

Now the questions of the hour are:

  • Am I sending customer data to a foreign AI provider, where their govt. can actually devour it all? 
  • Am I sending proprietary code to their servers? 
  • Do their "Terms & Conditions" actually protect me in my jurisdiction? 
  • Are those "Terms & Conditions" even enforceable where I operate?

 

So, will we still consider the model as OPEN?

u/Temporary-Owl1725 — 10 days ago
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What tools should be in a serious solo AI builder directory in 2026?

I’m trying to map the AI builder stack people actually use, not just tools with loud launches.

Here’s my rough list:

Local dev

  • Ollama
  • llama.cpp

Inference / serving

  • vLLM
  • SGLang
  • TensorRT-LLM

Routing / model gateway

  • LiteLLM
  • OpenRouter
  • Portkey
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway

Agents

  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • CrewAI
  • Pydantic AI

RAG

  • LlamaIndex
  • LangChain
  • pgvector
  • Qdrant
  • Weaviate
  • Pinecone

Evals / red teaming

  • Promptfoo
  • Ragas
  • DeepEval
  • Braintrust

Observability

  • Langfuse
  • LangSmith
  • Arize Phoenix

GPU hosting

  • RunPod
  • Modal
  • Vast
  • Lambda
  • Replicate

What would you add, or remove?

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u/Necessary_Gazelle211 — 7 days ago
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JetBrains open-sources Mellum2, for code reviews, tool calling and agent orchestration

JetBrains released Mellum2, a 12B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 2.5B active parameters per token, targeting coding assistants, tool use, routing, RAG pipelines, and private enterprise deployments. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Technical highlights

  • 64 experts with 8 active experts per token
  • Native Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for speculative decoding
  • 128K context window via layer-selective YaRN
  • Grouped-Query Attention with sliding-window attention
  • FP8 hybrid-precision pretraining across approximately 10.6 trillion tokens
  • RLVR post-training for Instruct and Thinking variants

 

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u/Necessary_Gazelle211 — 10 days ago
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Tool directory: what are you actually using for AI app deployment right now?

Trying to put together a practical, no-hype list of what solo AI builders are actually running in production (or close to it). Not what's trending on Twitter — what's holding up in your real stack.

If you're building with LLMs, drop your setup. Here are the categories to riff on:

  • LLM APIs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, Together, Fireworks, OpenRouter
  • Open-source deployment — vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, llama.cpp, Ollama
  • Agent frameworks — LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK
  • RAG — LlamaIndex, LangChain, Haystack
  • Vector DBs — Qdrant, Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus, pgvector
  • Observability — LangSmith, Helicone, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix
  • Evals — promptfoo, Ragas, DeepEval
  • GPU hosting — RunPod, Lambda, CoreWeave, Modal, Vast ai

Two questions I'm most curious about:

  1. What's the one tool you'd recommend to another solo builder?
  2. What's the one you'd tell them to avoid (and why)?

Bonus points if you mention rough monthly cost and how many users you're serving — context makes the recs way more useful.

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u/Necessary_Gazelle211 — 11 days ago