The Lab · 2026-03-31 18:27:10 · Hacker News
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is experiencing a dramatic financial windfall, with profits surging as the global AI boom creates a massive new market for its low-cost, versatile computing boards. This surge is not merely a seasonal uptick but a fundamental shift, driven by developers, researchers, and startups leveraging ...
The Lab · 2026-04-08 13:27:01 · Seeking Alpha
Micron Technology has made a strategic investment in SiMa.ai, a move that directly fuels the scaling of what SiMa.ai terms 'physical AI'—hardware systems designed to run AI at the physical edge. This capital infusion signals a major validation for SiMa.ai's chiplet-based Machine Learning System-on-Chip (MLSoC) platform...
The Lab · 2026-04-14 19:22:39 · Decrypt
A developer has successfully repurposed Google's open-source AI model to replicate the capabilities of a leading competitor, signaling a new frontier in accessible, high-performance computing. Jackrong, the creator behind the Qwopus project, has released 'Gemopus'—a family of fine-tuned models built on Google's Gemma 4...
The Lab · 2026-05-12 19:48:28 · Hacker News
Cactus has open-sourced Needle, a 26-million-parameter function-calling model derived from Google's Gemini architecture, targeting a significant gap in mobile and wearable AI deployment. The model achieves 6000 tokens per second on prefill and 1200 tokens per second on decode when running on consumer hardware—performan...