What Europe should do right now: 1. Call all the European researchers working on AI and return them back with same salary (or they can stay but switch career). 2. Fill EU places having GPUs with money, and put those people there. 3. AI partnerships with China + India.
Witch hunting level: some guy uses AI to reverse engineer an M4 GPU driver for Linux and part of the community that should be for the open source, for the hacking, for the liberation and freedom is against him.
I see very worrying US companies executives declarations depicting open weight models as a risk. How much sold to the most furious capitalistic vision you need to be, to really believe it is better that a few companies control AI for all the world? They said the same for OSS.
Another important thing: Chinese models are not strong because they distill US models. Distillation of models via API is *impossible*. If somebody tells you the contrary, they don't understand machine learning:
Jev may have its (narrow) use cases but the hype you see around is the perfect representation of the fact the greatest part of the AI bubble don't know what is important and what is not. Jev is a minor thing happening on AI compared to all the rest, yet the hype exploded.
DwarfStar running DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on a 128GB M5 Max at steady 15 t/s. I didn't expect with SSD streaming it could be so fast. Recent SSD streaming changes to retain the right experts surely helped, but also maybe DS4.1 uses the same experts more. Will push online when ready QA > ASAP.
It drive me nuts that now people use AI to write tweets. If you think that this way you will get more popular and so forth, think twice. Write something authentic. AI is great but it is easy to misuse. Your tweets must be your more cared thoughts.
Modern AI resulted from research made also by many non-US scientists (Hinton, the French folks, Linnainmaa, many others). The pre-training corpus was produced worldwide with massive code contribution from Europe OSS. What is happening with frontier LLMs is unacceptable.
Btw the Redis story repeats itself: I'm working at DwarfStar for free for the community and because I enjoy it. But I'm receiving criticisms, since people are worried that this will break their AI-richness plans.
It's hard to think at something more stupid than the EU-requested watermarking of AI generated text.
