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A developer has successfully distilled the advanced reasoning capabilities of Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 model into a smaller, local AI that can run on standard consumer hardware. The resulting model, dubbed 'Qwopus,' is built on the open-source Qwen architecture and is reported to perform surprisingly close ...
Elon Musk confirmed in federal court this week that his AI startup xAI relied on OpenAI's models to train Grok, his company's competing chatbot—a disclosure that adds a layer of irony to his ongoing legal battle against the very firm he helped found. Musk made the admission while testifying in a California courtroom, ...
Elon Musk acknowledged during federal court testimony that xAI employed OpenAI's language models to train its Grok chatbot—a rare public admission of a practice known as model distillation that the AI industry has largely avoided discussing openly. The testimony, delivered in what appears to be ongoing litigation invol...
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...