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A Berkeley-led vector index keeps a pruned graph, not the vectors, so a local RAG index can be a few percent of the data's size. Costs and how to try it.
Block says Dessa is full-duplex, learned from human conversation alone and runs on an M4 Max MacBook Pro. Safety researchers get early access first.
Recursive's Flint is an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts coding model for local agents. Its scores are Recursive's own; early testers posted speeds.
NVIDIA posted Flare, an Apache-2.0 local inference server for SM120/SM121 GPUs such as DGX Spark. Python prepares each model; a Rust runtime serves it.
tiny corp's new tinybox starts at $7,000 on tinygrad.org. Buyers pick the platform, memory, storage, and up to four GPUs. Each box is made to order and ships in 1 to 8 weeks.
Microsoft opened pre-orders on 7 October for Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599.99 and the RTX Spark Dev Box from $5,999.99. Laptop Ultra availability starts 16 October.
A Web Worker can move browser-side computation away from the interface thread. Here is how to send work, return results, and handle the limits.
