Open Source AI
(81 articles)Qwen 3.8-Flash vs 3.5-Flash: 7 Real Upgrades
A blunt breakdown of what Alibaba actually changed between Qwen 3.5-Flash and Qwen 3.8-Flash — pricing, context, tool use, vision, and when the older model...
10 DeepSeek V4 Pro Tricks Power Users Actually Use
DeepSeek soft-retired V4 Pro and then walked it back, but the model is still one of the best value picks in the API tier. These 10 lesser-known tips squeeze...
ASR Benchmarks Are Broken: The Optimization Problem
Speech recognition leaderboards keep hitting record-low WER scores, but Hugging Face's new analysis shows how much of that progress is real versus benchmark...
Install Ollama in 10 Minutes: Run Any LLM Locally Free
A no-fluff walkthrough for installing Ollama on Mac, Windows, or Linux and running open models like Llama 3.3 and DeepSeek V3 completely offline.
Local LLMs vs Cloud APIs: Cost, Privacy, and Performance
A practical comparison of local LLMs versus cloud APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google—covering real-world costs, privacy trade-offs, inference performance,...
Pocket LLM Benchmarks: What Actually Runs on Your Phone
The Artificial Analysis mobile inference data shows a widening gap between what phones can theoretically run and what they can sustain. Small models won,...
Llama API Tutorial: Build Your First App in 30 Minutes
A no-fluff Llama API tutorial that ships a working streaming chatbot in under 30 minutes. Real code, real keys, real cost numbers, no GPU required.
Run Mistral Large 3 Locally: GPU Setup & Real Benchmarks
A practical guide to running Mistral Large 3 on your own server hardware. VRAM math for the 675B MoE, vLLM setup, and what to expect from FP8 and NVFP4...
DeepSeek V4-Pro Review: The Open-Source Reasoning King?
A candid look at DeepSeek V4-Pro for reasoning workloads, covering benchmarks, pricing, real workflow trade-offs, and whether it can dethrone Claude and GPT-5...
LoRA Speedrun: Wall-Clock Leaderboard Shaking Up Fine-Tuning
A new public leaderboard called LoRA Speedrun ranks fine-tuning techniques by raw wall-clock time. The results expose which tricks actually matter, and which...
Run Qwen 3.6-27B Locally: 5-Step GPU Setup Guide
A practical tutorial for running Qwen 3.6-27B on your own GPU. Includes AWQ setup, vLLM serving, real tokens-per-second benchmarks, and the pitfalls that eat...
ASR Benchmark Gaming: How to Spot Overfitting in 2026
Hugging Face's new methodology shows how speech recognition models game leaderboards. The gap between benchmark WER and real-world accuracy is bigger than you...