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Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I tested 3 local LLMs on my RTX 4070 Ti for real work — only one earned a permanent spot

12GB VRAM, one model worth keeping.
GitHub

CogAgent: An open-sourced VLM-based GUI Agent

🏆 June 2024: CogAgent was accepted by CVPR 2024 and recognized as a conference Highlight (top 3%). The CogAgent-9b-20241220 model has achieved state-of-the-art results across multiple platforms and ...
InfoWorld

I ran Qwen3.5 locally instead of Claude Code. Here’s what happened.

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home. If you’ve been curious about working with services like Claude Code, but ...
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[March 2026 Edition] I tried running Qwen3.5 locally on my MacBook! The era where 9B models run offline is here.

In this article, I used one of my main PCs (MacBook Pro M3 Pro / 36GB) to install the Qwen3.5 9B model locally. I will explain the installation process and the verification results. To begin with, ...
GitHub

Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion

We present Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion (GIDD), a novel framework for training discrete diffusion models. GIDD can be seen as a generalization of the popular masked diffusion paradigm ...
Hacker

Grok 4 Claims “PhD‑level” Intelligence but at a Cost

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