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Open source

The shared code and communities the industry runs on.

China trained a trillion-parameter model on domestic chips. It took fifty thousand of them.

Meituan's LongCat-2.0 is the first frontier-scale model trained end to end without Western silicon. The achievement is real. What it hides is where the chokepoint actually moved.

Jide Okafor·Jul 5·10 min

Analysis · Open weights

Google's Gemma 4 is small enough to run on your laptop. "Any laptop" is the overclaim.

Gemma 4 12B is a real shrink: a capable multimodal model in about 16GB. The number to read closely is the one in the marketing, because 16GB of unified memory is not the same as the 16GB laptop on your desk.

Phuong Nguyen·Jun 4·10 min