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Qualcomm Wants to AI-ify Your Factory Floor
Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ 9075 + FactoryPulse is an industrial AI play, not another chatbot. Edge inference, multi-workload chips, and a decade-long war for factory floors.
Gemini Gets Hands: AI Computer Use Goes Budget
Google's strapping computer use to Gemini Flash — the budget tier. Not about winning demos. About making agentic AI cheap enough to throw at everything. Claude should be nervous.
ROLL YOUR OWN AI: llama.cpp Is the Punk Rock of LLMs
llama.cpp lets you run GPT-4-class models on hardware you own. No subscriptions, no data harvesting, no Sam Altman. Here's why the local LLM movement is the real AI revolution.
A24 x DeepMind: Indie Cinema's Algorithmic Era Begins
Google DeepMind and A24 just announced a 'first-of-its-kind research partnership.' Translation: the indie film darling and the AI giant are dating, and Hollywood's guilds are watching very carefully.
Mistral AI's Open-Source Soul Is Already for Sale
Mistral built its name on open weights. Now the flagship is closed, the valuations are eye-watering, and the community is noticing.
CHAMATH COOKED: How Facebook Squandered Its AI Crown
Chamath Palihapitiya says Meta fumbled its AI lead. He's not wrong — they had FAIR, PyTorch, and LLaMA, then blew $50B on metaverse cosplay while OpenAI ate the world.
Claude's Quiet Heist: Anthropic Is Stealing ChatGPT's Bag
Anthropic's Claude is quietly poaching ChatGPT's paid subscribers with better coding, cleaner prose, and zero corporate chaos. OpenAI's response? More features, more drama, more vibes that scream 'we're losing the plot.'
CHINA'S AI MODELS ARE EATING OPENAI'S LUNCH
DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi match GPT-4 and Claude for pennies. Export controls didn't slow China — they made it leaner, meaner, and open-source.
Perplexity AI: The $9B Hype Beast Eating Google's Lunch
Perplexity AI just hit Coursera, cementing its status as the ultimate Google killer. We strip the VHS grain off the RAG-powered answer engine to see if it's the next big drop or an AI scraping grift.
Mistral OCR: The Doc AI Flex Nobody Saw Coming
France's AI startup drops a document intelligence bomb with SOTA OCR claims and aggressive pricing that should terrify Google and AWS.