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Submission + - A free and secure coding AI, courtesy of China (x.com)

Submitted by DogFoodBuss on Thursday July 31, 2025 @04:29PM

DogFoodBuss writes: This week, Alibaba Qwen released Qwen3-Coder-Flash. It's believed to be the most capable AI coding model that can run locally on a developer laptop. The architecture delivers excellent throughput by only activating three of its 30-billion parameters per token generated, and supports 256k and 1M context sizes. Qwen also claims that their model can beat GPT 4 and DeepSeek V3 in many benchmarks.

Ready-to-use quantizations are now available from Unsloth AI https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhuggingface.co%2Funsloth... and in Apple's MLX DWQ format on HuggingFace https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhuggingface.co%2Fmlx-com...

Submission + - Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites (yahoo.com)

Submitted by DogFoodBuss on Friday September 06, 2024 @11:34AM

DogFoodBuss writes: SpaceX deployed its 7000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation. The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than it's nearest competitors, offering unprecedented access to low-latency broadband from anywhere on the planet.

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