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AI Daily for 30 July: Gemma 4 in 2GB, AI Research Secrecy, Copilot Word Worms, Claude Model Outage
AI Daily for 30 July recaps 5 major AI Hacker News stories, moving through gemma 4 in 2gb, ai research secrecy, copilot word worms, claude model outage.
1. Gemma 4 in 2GB
The next story is TurboFieldfare, a Show HN project whose author says a custom Swift and Metal runtime can run Gemma 4 26B on any M-series Mac in about 2 gigabytes of RAM by keeping a small core in memory and streaming only the experts needed for each token from SSD, which matters because it lowers the hardware barrier for running a much larger local model on everyday Apple laptops. Hacker News was impressed by the result…
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