StepFun's 196B Beast Runs Top AI Scores for Pennies—And It's Open Source
Imagine running AI that smokes the leaders without bankrupting your GPU budget. StepFun's Step-3.5-Flash just made elite performance dirt cheap for devs everywhere.
Imagine running AI that smokes the leaders without bankrupting your GPU budget. StepFun's Step-3.5-Flash just made elite performance dirt cheap for devs everywhere.
OpenAI drops a 20B MoE monster into open source, and suddenly fine-tuning isn't just for billion-dollar labs. One practitioner's gritty guide reveals LoRA hacks that make it feasible on everyday rigs.
Ever wonder why your fancy 100B+ AI still fumbles basic math? NVIDIA's new 30B Nemotron-Cascade 2 might have the answer — and it's open-weight.
Picture this: a 120 billion parameter model that only wakes up 12 billion at a time, now chilling serverless on AWS. NVIDIA's latest Nemotron drop promises agentic wizardry—but who's cashing the real checks?
Everyone figured AI needed specialist models for chat, math, code, and pics. Mistral Small 4 says hold my beer: one fat MoE does it all. Deployment just got simpler. Or did it?