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Submission + - A free and secure coding AI, courtesy of China (x.com)

DogFoodBuss writes: This week, Alibaba Qwen released Qwen3-Coder-Flash. It's believed to be the most capable AI coding model that can run locally on a developer laptop. The architecture delivers excellent throughput by only activating three of its 30-billion parameters per token generated, and supports 256k and 1M context sizes. Qwen also claims that their model can beat GPT 4 and DeepSeek V3 in many benchmarks.

Ready-to-use quantizations are now available from Unsloth AI https://huggingface.co/unsloth... and in Apple's MLX DWQ format on HuggingFace https://huggingface.co/mlx-com...

Comment False headline (Score 4, Informative) 121

The headline is not representative of what the survey says AT ALL, which is that current AI cannot be scaled up to AGI. Anybody with half a brain could have told you that more research is still needed. Even Sam Altman has said as much. Saying that current AI is a âoedead endâ is completely ignoring all of the demonstrably useful stuff it can do now.

Comment China is ready to pick up the slack (Score 2) 55

I understand how it sucks for artists to see their work used in ways that they didn't intend, but I don't think there is much we should be doing about it. If the West starts imposing fines or fees for AI training, all that means is the best AI products will start coming out of China. They don't give a rip about IP laws, and would love to see their competitors hamstrung.

Comment Only censored for the hosted version (Score 4, Insightful) 65

If you could be bothered to host DeepSeek yourself, there is no such censorship. R1 will happily talk about the issues regarding Taiwan and Tank Man. Of all people, Slashdotters should know to not rely on cloud services. https://x.com/fabianwilliams/s...

Comment Re: Amazing The Speed Of Rollout (Score 0) 30

There is only one version of DeepSeek R1. It has 671 billion parameters, and common 4-bit quantization requires about a half terabyte of fast memory to load it. If you squeeze it down to 1.5bpw, you can run it in just 200 GB of VRAM (with some loss of quality). The different âoeversionsâ you might be referring to are just ye old Llama and Qwen, which have been fine tuned with R1 data. Completely different architectures from DeepSeek.

Submission + - Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites (yahoo.com)

DogFoodBuss writes: SpaceX deployed its 7000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation. The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than it's nearest competitors, offering unprecedented access to low-latency broadband from anywhere on the planet.

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