Tag: Open Source
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TensorFold 1.0.0 and Multi-Model gr8: Two Release Notes Date the Desk-Side Stack
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / November 3, 2026. On November 2, the TensorFold Mac application and the gr8 cluster stack, two community inference projects this blog has followed all autumn, published release notes that move this hardware tier toward installed software. Ash Hart, the maintainer of the TensorFold Mac application, announced version 1.0.0, “our…
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The RTX 30-Series Tensor Unlock: What the Measured Gains Cover and What They Miss
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 29, 2026 An open-source Linux kernel module restores the full FP16/BF16 tensor rate on NVIDIA’s consumer RTX 30-series cards. The first complete benchmark suite in the lane, published this week by an independent operator, measured the matrix-side gain at 50 to 60 percent, and every report in the…
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New GLM-5.3 on Four DGX Sparks: Results and Media Studio
On October 16, a community recipe put the full GLM-5.3 on four DGX Sparks, at tensor parallelism 4. The model is GLM-5.3 (753B), and the four NVIDIA DGX Spark units run it. Underneath is gr8, a from-scratch inference stack for the GB10 processor. The same weekend, keys/Wasserman AI Studio announced release 2.8.0 for Mac and…
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, NVIDIA Answers Quietly With Flare
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 22, 2026 In the early hours of October 20, Pacific time, DeepSeek announced DeepInfer, its in-house inference framework, as fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license. DeepInfer is the stack that powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale in the company’s own production services. The four-post thread laid out the…
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The Spark Fleet Learns to Run Itself
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 21, 2026 The last month of desk-side serving stories were about engines. Athena put two frontier models on one 128 GB box at 262K context with a 141,519-token conversation restored from disk in 2.1 seconds; Imprint turned that same restore trick into a standalone context-cache service with a…