IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs? Video
Intelligent Machines (Video)Show Notes
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?
(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X
Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content
Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'
(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X
Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis
Co-Host: Christina Warren
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