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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4".

It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a pretty big performance boost.

I've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using these Unsloth quantized models. I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing these pelicans) and the 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL (producing these).

My favorite so far was this xhigh reasoning effort one from UD-Q2_K_XL:

Via Hacker News

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, qwen, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, ai-in-china, nvidia-spark

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"What is never discussed in all of this hand-wringing is the fact that those dogs and their owners likely far predate the people riding their bikes here."

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Chance Miller:

Not to be overshadowed by the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, Apple today has also released an updated version of its Polishing Cloth. In an age of everything getting more expensive, the new Polishing Cloth is cheaper than before at $9 (down from $19). [...]

Apple released the Polishing Cloth in October 2021 and sold out almost instantly. While it has become a meme, it is genuinely a good polishing cloth for your Apple gear.

Moore’s Law comes for everything eventually.

Link: 9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/apple-releases-new-polishing-cloth…

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac:

Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads “Surprise and shine,” and the invitation features a glowing Apple logo with a sun shining through.

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When it comes to felines, the artist revels in "the contrast between how ordinary and how weird they are."

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"Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks."

"The fact that I had song ideas, let alone a place where I was saving them, was significant. It had been 15 years since I’d last released an album."

"The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous."

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that impressive because they had an oracle to compare against, so it was simple to go from one language to another”, but I think that’s selling this entire thing short. If you can build a verification system and give proper direction, AI can produce a highly complex, highly sophisticated piece of software and it can continue to refine it until it just works.

— Paul Dix, The end of programming

Tags: coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, bun, ai, llms

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It can do flips, etc