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I run a 24GB GPU instead of paying for Claude or Codex, and Qwen 3.6 keeps up more than I expected

Local LLMs are good enough for many tasks ...
SDxCentral

Qualcomm acquires AI startup Modular in open ecosystem bet to challenge CUDA

Founded by the mind behind the Swift programming language, Modular’s 'write once, run anywhere' stack looks to accelerate ...

Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update

Figma's update adds a new code layer, support for motion and shaders, and the ability to create custom plug-ins for various ...

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...

Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs

Microsoft’s new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs Nvidia Blackwell AI power and 128GB of unified memory to run large AI models locally, helping developers cut cloud costs and rethink enterprise AI ...
GitHub

PALMS & PALMS+: Plane-based Accessible Indoor Localization Using Mobile Smartphones

This repository contains implementations for PALMS and PALMS+, two systems for previous-visit-free indoor localization using comodity mobile devices. PALMS localizes a user within a known floor plan ...
GitHub

Rethinking Network Design and Local Geometry in Point Cloud: A Simple Residual MLP Framework （ICLR 2022）

Overview of one stage in PointMLP. Given an input point cloud, PointMLP progressively extracts local features using residual point MLP blocks. In each stage, we first transform the local point using a ...