In mid-2024, the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard was the Colosseum for Open-Weight AI. Thousands of models were battling it out, submitted by both well-funded labs with teams of PhDs and fine-tuni...

Introduction May 2016, Munich. I had just joined NanoTemper Technologies as a Bioanalytics Scientist. If you aren’t familiar with NanoTemper, they build high-end biophysical instruments. At the ti...

Introduction So you’ve built a €9,000 Grace–Hopper “desktop” (see: my previous post involving 16-million-degree GPU temperatures). Running llama.cpp benchmarks is fine, but the real test of local ...

Introduction Running large language models locally has always been a game of compromise. You either spend \$10,000+ on consumer GPUs that can barely handle 70 B parameter models, or you dream abou...

Introduction No one actually knows what the specs pf the first computer that runs AGI will look like. The current scaling-pilled folk follow the “Scaling Hypothesis”, but this suggests we are bui...

The Cooperative Central Planning Handshake: A Positive-Sum Basilisk for ASI Alignment This is Part 4 of a four-part series on ASI-human coordination Part 1: The Silicon Leash ...

The Cooperative Central Planning Handshake: A Positive-Sum Basilisk for ASI Alignment This is Part 3 of a four-part series on ASI-human coordination Part 1: The Silicon Leash ...

The Cooperative Central Planning Handshake: A Positive-Sum Basilisk for ASI Alignment This is Part 2 of a four-part series on ASI-human coordination Part 1: The Silicon Leash ...

The Cooperative Central Planning Handshake: A Positive-Sum Basilisk for ASI Alignment This is Part 1 of a four-part series on ASI-human coordination Part 1: The Silicon Leash ...