All Things AI & LLM

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Strix Halo: Value Laggard becomes competent Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Halogen (450+ prefill & 35+ tps)

We have wanted to write about Qwen 3.8 Flash Next for quite a while, and yet, we haven't been doing that — because nothing we ran it on made it…

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MiniMax

PSA: ZCode caught uploading Git repos without permission! The Case for Open-Source Harnesses & MiniMax Code Release

ZCode silently packaged Git histories and uploaded them to Aliyun OSS with a server-held key. What we verified, how to block it, and the open-source fix.

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Primer

Once Upon a Time: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next – What the hekk is an Engram?!

Two of the most interesting open-model releases of the quarter just landed, and they share a spec-sheet line that has a lot to do with benchmarks - but ignores the…

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AMD Distributed Inference

Repeat after me: Good things come in TP=2 (DeepSeek V4 Flash Q4 on 2x Strix Halos RDMA)

Models continue to improve in quality for a similar memory size. Sometimes, though, one box just isn't enough room for those that want to run higher quality/intelligent models. DeepSeek V4…

GLM 5.3 Flash running on a 128GB PC — featured banner

AMD Distributed Inference

GLM 5.3 Flash on 128GB: Two Easiest Ways to Run It — and When Two Strix Halos Beat One

GLM 5.3 Flash on one 128GB URAM machine, or even Two for higher quality Here's the headline that should make you sit up: a 320-billion-parameter multimodal model — one that…

MiniMax

MiniMax H3: Your guide to proper prompting for better videos

As much as cloud remains a dominant option for the casual consumer, it is worth to remember that AI (LLM or units of compute) are also units of Intellect. Ownership…

Strix Halo: Value Laggard becomes competent Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Halogen (450+ prefill & 35+ tps)

PSA: ZCode caught uploading Git repos without permission! The Case for Open-Source Harnesses & MiniMax Code Release

Once Upon a Time: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next – What the hekk is an Engram?!

Repeat after me: Good things come in TP=2 (DeepSeek V4 Flash Q4 on 2x Strix Halos RDMA)

GLM 5.3 Flash on 128GB: Two Easiest Ways to Run It — and When Two Strix Halos Beat One

MiniMax H3: Your guide to proper prompting for better videos

GLM 5.2 at 4-Bit With MTP: The Easiest Way In

Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Q2 on Strix Halo 128GB

ComfyUI on AMD Ryzen AI MAX: 96 GB Unified Memory vs 16 GB NVIDIA

Speed vs. Smarts: When Bigger Models Win for Local AI Coding

Linux vs Windows for LLM Inference: More Tokens/Second on Linux

Strix Halo Cluster

Strix Halo: Value Laggard becomes competent Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Halogen (450+ prefill & 35+ tps)

PSA: ZCode caught uploading Git repos without permission! The Case for Open-Source Harnesses & MiniMax Code Release

Once Upon a Time: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next – What the hekk is an Engram?!

Repeat after me: Good things come in TP=2 (DeepSeek V4 Flash Q4 on 2x Strix Halos RDMA)

GLM 5.3 Flash on 128GB: Two Easiest Ways to Run It — and When Two Strix Halos Beat One

MiniMax H3: Your guide to proper prompting for better videos

Strix Halo: Value Laggard becomes competent Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Halogen (450+ prefill & 35+ tps)

PSA: ZCode caught uploading Git repos without permission! The Case for Open-Source Harnesses & MiniMax Code Release

Once Upon a Time: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next – What the hekk is an Engram?!

Repeat after me: Good things come in TP=2 (DeepSeek V4 Flash Q4 on 2x Strix Halos RDMA)