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I turned my old phone into a local LLM server, and it handles productivity tasks better than I expected

Thanks to some llama.cpp wizardry, Gemma 4 runs well on my outdated phone ...
NextBigFuture

Tokens and Tokenization are an Important for Fundamental LLM Understanding

Tokens are the fundamental units that LLMs process. Instead of working with raw text (characters or whole words), LLMs convert input text into a sequence of numeric IDs called tokens using a ...
Ventureburn

AI Token Prices Hit Record Low as OpenAI Price War Intensifies

AI token prices drop to record low of 97 cents as open-source rivals force an aggressive OpenAI price war. Who wins this ...
InfoQ

Meta Open-Sources Byte Latent Transformer LLM with Improved Scalability

Meta open-sourced Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), an LLM architecture that uses a learned dynamic scheme for processing patches of bytes instead of a tokenizer. This allows BLT models to match the ...
VentureBeat

Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5%

Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a proven method to improve the performance of large language models in real-world applications by giving them extra compute cycles at inference time. However, ...
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LLM From Scratch is a hands-on workshop where you write every piece of an AI from nothing

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...