Tag:llm

All the articles with the tag "llm".

• One Week, Three Frontier Models — and a New Normal for AI Releases

  9 Jul, 2026

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  8 min read

  Fable 5 is back, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, and Grok 4.5 landed a day earlier — all in one week. A look at what each release actually is, and at the quieter pattern underneath: frontier models now launch through a government checkpoint.

• Claude Fable 5 — Locked Out of a Model, Even Its Makers

  24 Jun, 2026

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  6 min read

  I barely got to use Claude Fable 5 before a US export-control directive cut off access for every foreign national — including, in effect, the people who helped build it. A few honest thoughts on the potential I glimpsed, what happened, and why I hope it comes back the right way.

• LLM Inference — Where Your VRAM Goes and How to Get It Back

  13 May, 2026

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  10 min read

  A practical look at LLM inference: how context, KV cache, and model weights compete for VRAM, why Q8 on the KV cache is a free win, how quantization formats like GGUF and MLX compare, and why vLLM beats Ollama or LM Studio when you actually need throughput.