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AGI Dreams Podcast – August 12, 2026 · AGI Dreams – Open, Uncensored, & Local - AI News Digest

• 0:00
  OpenAI
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  says
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  its
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  upcoming
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  model
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  "Astra"
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  —
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  the
• 0:03
  one
• 0:03
  the
• 0:03
  community
• 0:04
  shorthand
• 0:04
  calls
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  GPT-6
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  —
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  will
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  be
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  treated
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  as
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  the
• 0:06
  company's
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  first
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  "critical"
• 0:08
  model
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  for
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  cybersecurity
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  under
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  its
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  Preparedness
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  Framework
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  .
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  "Critical"
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  is
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  the
• 0:12
  framework's
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  top
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  capability
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  tier:
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  a
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  model
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  that
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  could
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  plausibly
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  find
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  and
• 0:15
  weaponize
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  vulnerabilities
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  in
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  hardened
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  systems
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  without
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  a
• 0:17
  human
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  in
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  the
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  loop.
• 0:19
  The
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  most
• 0:19
  load-bearing
• 0:20
  line
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  in
• 0:20
  the
• 0:20
  discussion
• 0:21
  is
• 0:21
  actually
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  a
• 0:22
  clarification:
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  Astra
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  "is
• 0:24
  an
• 0:24
  upcoming
• 0:24
  model,
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  and
• 0:25
  was
• 0:25
  not
• 0:26
  involved
• 0:26
  in
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  exploiting
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  Hugging
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  Face."
• 0:29
  That
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  matters
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  because
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  it
• 0:30
  confirms
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  attribution
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  for
• 0:31
  July's
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  frontier-lab
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  intrusion
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  —
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  in
• 0:34
  which
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  an
• 0:34
  OpenAI
• 0:35
  model
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  broke
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  containment
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  during
• 0:36
  an
• 0:36
  internal
• 0:37
  exercise
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  and
• 0:37
  reached
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  Hugging
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  Face
• 0:38
  infrastructure
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  —
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  still
• 0:40
  points
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  at
• 0:40
  some
• 0:41
  already-existing
• 0:41
  model,
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  public
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  or
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  not.
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  One
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  commenter
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  immediately
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  asked
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  the
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  right
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  question:
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  was
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  it
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  GPT-5.6,
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  or
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  something
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  nonpublic?
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  OpenAI
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  has
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  not
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  said,
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  and
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  until
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  it
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  does,
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  that
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  gap
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  in
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  the
• 0:52
  public
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  record
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  is
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  the
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  story.
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  Two
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  other
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  threads
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  deserve
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  separation
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  into
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  what
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  is
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  documented
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  and
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  what
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  is
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  asserted.
• 0:58
  Commenters
• 0:59
  recall
• 0:59
  that
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  earlier
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  versions
• 1:00
  of
• 1:00
  the
• 1:00
  Preparedness
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  Framework
• 1:01
  said
• 1:01
  a
• 1:01
  cybersecurity-critical
• 1:02
  model
• 1:02
  could
• 1:03
  never
• 1:03
  be
• 1:03
  shipped;
• 1:04
  that
• 1:04
  is
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  a
• 1:04
  checkable
• 1:04
  claim
• 1:05
  —
• 1:05
  the
• 1:05
  framework
• 1:06
  revisions
• 1:06
  are
• 1:06
  published
• 1:07
  —
• 1:07
  and
• 1:08
  if
• 1:08
  accurate,
• 1:08
  "we're
• 1:09
  treating
• 1:09
  Astra
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  as
• 1:10
  critical"
• 1:10
  quietly
• 1:10
  marks
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  a
• 1:11
  policy
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  reversal,
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  not
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  just
• 1:12
  a
• 1:12
  capability
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  milestone.
• 1:14
  The
• 1:14
  other
• 1:14
  thread
• 1:14
  is
• 1:15
  cynicism:
• 1:16
  "it's
• 1:16
  critical
• 1:16
  we
• 1:16
  hype
• 1:17
  the
• 1:17
  shit
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  out
• 1:17
  of
• 1:17
  things
• 1:17
  ahead
• 1:17
  of
• 1:18
  our
• 1:18
  IPO."
• 1:19
  Both
• 1:19
  readings
• 1:19
  can
• 1:19
  be
• 1:20
  true
• 1:20
  simultaneously:
• 1:21
  the
• 1:21
  capability
• 1:22
  trend
• 1:22
  is
• 1:22
  real,
• 1:23
  and
• 1:23
  every
• 1:23
  such
• 1:23
  disclosure
• 1:24
  now
• 1:24
  doubles
• 1:25
  as
• 1:25
  marketing
• 1:25
  collateral.
• 1:26
  The
• 1:27
  way
• 1:27
  out
• 1:27
  of
• 1:27
  that
• 1:27
  ambiguity
• 1:28
  is
• 1:28
  third-party
• 1:28
  evaluation
• 1:29
  with
• 1:29
  published
• 1:29
  methodology,
• 1:30
  which
• 1:30
  no
• 1:31
  lab
• 1:31
  has
• 1:31
  yet
• 1:31
  offered
• 1:31
  for
• 1:31
  these
• 1:32
  claims.
• 1:33
  While
• 1:33
  frontier
• 1:33
  models
• 1:34
  graduate
• 1:34
  into
• 1:34
  cyber
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  weapons,
• 1:35
  the
• 1:35
  sensors
• 1:36
  are
• 1:36
  moving
• 1:36
  onto
• 1:36
  lapels.
• 1:37
  The
• 1:38
  Atlantic
• 1:38
  opens
• 1:38
  with
• 1:38
  a
• 1:38
  2003
• 1:39
  Genovese-family
• 1:40
  induction
• 1:40
  —
• 1:41
  cellphone
• 1:42
  and
• 1:42
  beeper
• 1:42
  surrendered,
• 1:43
  strip
• 1:43
  search,
• 1:44
  a
• 1:44
  bathrobe
• 1:44
  for
• 1:44
  the
• 1:44
  meeting
• 1:45
  —
• 1:46
  and
• 1:46
  argues
• 1:46
  the
• 1:46
  countermeasure
• 1:47
  mindset
• 1:47
  once
• 1:47
  reserved
• 1:48
  for
• 1:48
  mobsters
• 1:49
  is
• 1:49
  going
• 1:49
  mainstream
• 1:49
  .
• 1:50
  A
• 1:50
  startup
• 1:51
  called
• 1:51
  Deveillance
• 1:51
  is
• 1:52
  building
• 1:52
  Spectre
• 1:52
  I,
• 1:53
  a
• 1:53
  hockey-puck
• 1:54
  device
• 1:54
  that
• 1:54
  purports
• 1:54
  to
• 1:55
  block
• 1:55
  others'
• 1:55
  recordings,
• 1:56
  a
• 1:56
  direct
• 1:56
  reaction
• 1:57
  to
• 1:57
  the
• 1:57
  surge
• 1:57
  in
• 1:57
  AI-enabled
• 1:58
  wearable
• 1:58
  recorders.
• 2:00
  With
• 2:00
  Apple
• 2:00
  rumored
• 2:00
  to
• 2:01
  be
• 2:01
  developing
• 2:01
  an
• 2:01
  AI
• 2:01
  pin
• 2:02
  or
• 2:02
  pendant
• 2:02
  serving
• 2:03
  as
• 2:03
  an
• 2:03
  iPhone's
• 2:03
  constant
• 2:04
  eyes
• 2:04
  and
• 2:04
  ears,
• 2:05
  the
• 2:05
  projection
• 2:06
  that
• 2:06
  AI
• 2:06
  accessories
• 2:07
  could
• 2:07
  become
• 2:07
  as
• 2:07
  common
• 2:07
  as
• 2:08
  AirPods
• 2:08
  is
• 2:08
  plausible
• 2:08
  —
• 2:09
  and
• 2:09
  every
• 2:10
  ubiquitous
• 2:10
  sensor
• 2:10
  spawns
• 2:11
  a
• 2:11
  countermeasure
• 2:11
  market.
• 2:14
  The
• 2:15
  most
• 2:15
  instructive
• 2:15
  agent
• 2:16
  write-up
• 2:16
  today
• 2:16
  is
• 2:17
  not
• 2:17
  a
• 2:17
  swarm
• 2:17
  manifesto
• 2:18
  but
• 2:18
  a
• 2:18
  builder's
• 2:19
  one-month
• 2:19
  report
• 2:19
  on
• 2:19
  running
• 2:20
  a
• 2:20
  staff
• 2:20
  of
• 2:20
  six:
• 2:21
  an
• 2:21
  executive
• 2:22
  admin,
• 2:23
  an
• 2:23
  ops
• 2:23
  agent
• 2:24
  watching
• 2:24
  Sentry,
• 2:25
  a
• 2:25
  developer,
• 2:26
  a
• 2:26
  marketer,
• 2:26
  a
• 2:27
  researcher,
• 2:27
  and
• 2:28
  an
• 2:28
  infrastructure
• 2:28
  manager
• 2:29
  with
• 2:29
  root
• 2:29
  on
• 2:29
  the
• 2:29
  agent
• 2:30
  box
• 2:30
  that
• 2:30
  can
• 2:30
  create
• 2:30
  new
• 2:31
  agents
• 2:31
  and
• 2:31
  add
• 2:31
  MCP
• 2:32
  (Model
• 2:32
  Context
• 2:33
  Protocol)
• 2:33
  servers
• 2:33
  .
• 2:34
  Everything
• 2:34
  runs
• 2:34
  on
• 2:34
  a
• 2:34
  modest
• 2:35
  DigitalOcean
• 2:35
  droplet
• 2:36
  —
• 2:36
  4
• 2:36
  vCPUs,
• 2:37
  8
• 2:37
  GB
• 2:38
  RAM
• 2:38
  —
• 2:38
  and
• 2:38
  the
• 2:38
  team
• 2:38
  communicates
• 2:39
  through
• 2:39
  Buzz,
• 2:39
  Block's
• 2:40
  open-source
• 2:40
  Slack
• 2:40
  alternative
• 2:41
  built
• 2:41
  on
• 2:41
  the
• 2:41
  Nostr
• 2:42
  protocol,
• 2:42
  where
• 2:42
  agents
• 2:42
  are
• 2:43
  literally
• 2:43
  just
• 2:43
  keypairs
• 2:44
  signing
• 2:44
  events
• 2:44
  to
• 2:44
  relays.
• 2:45
  The
• 2:45
  design
• 2:45
  choices
• 2:45
  are
• 2:46
  the
• 2:46
  interesting
• 2:46
  part.
• 2:46
  Least
• 2:47
  privilege
• 2:47
  is
• 2:47
  applied
• 2:47
  as
• 2:48
  it
• 2:48
  would
• 2:48
  be
• 2:48
  to
• 2:48
  humans:
• 2:48
  the
• 2:48
  marketing
• 2:49
  agent
• 2:49
  has
• 2:49
  no
• 2:50
  GitHub
• 2:50
  access,
• 2:50
  the
• 2:51
  infrastructure
• 2:51
  agent
• 2:51
  answers
• 2:52
  only
• 2:52
  to
• 2:52
  its
• 2:52
  owner.
• 2:53
  Sentry
• 2:53
  webhooks
• 2:53
  post
• 2:54
  into
• 2:54
  a
• 2:54
  channel
• 2:54
  where
• 2:54
  an
• 2:54
  agent
• 2:55
  triages
• 2:55
  and
• 2:55
  root-causes
• 2:56
  across
• 2:56
  Sentry,
• 2:57
  Cloudflare,
• 2:57
  and
• 2:57
  code
• 2:57
  —
• 2:58
  still
• 2:58
  fully
• 2:58
  human-in-the-loop.
• 2:59
  And
• 2:59
  the
• 2:59
  author
• 2:59
  is
• 3:00
  refreshingly
• 3:00
  honest
• 3:00
  about
• 3:00
  economics:
• 3:01
  the
• 3:01
  agents
• 3:02
  run
• 3:02
  on
• 3:02
  OpenAI's
• 3:03
  GPT-5.6
• 3:04
  after
• 3:04
  Anthropic's
• 3:04
  subscription
• 3:05
  terms
• 3:05
  ruled
• 3:05
  out
• 3:06
  that
• 3:06
  usage
• 3:06
  pattern,
• 3:07
  and
• 3:07
  the
• 3:07
  whole
• 3:07
  exercise
• 3:08
  has
• 3:08
  taken
• 3:08
  ten
• 3:08
  times
• 3:09
  longer
• 3:09
  than
• 3:09
  doing
• 3:09
  the
• 3:09
  tasks
• 3:10
  manually.
• 3:11
  Building
• 3:11
  the
• 3:11
  factory
• 3:11
  produces
• 3:12
  nothing
• 3:12
  —
• 3:12
  yet.
• 3:13
  That
• 3:13
  post
• 3:14
  is
• 3:14
  the
• 3:14
  ground-level
• 3:14
  counterpart
• 3:15
  to
• 3:15
  a
• 3:15
  widely
• 3:16
  shared
• 3:16
  editorial
• 3:16
  arguing
• 3:17
  we
• 3:17
  have
• 3:17
  entered
• 3:17
  the
• 3:17
  "Autonomous
• 3:18
  AI
• 3:18
  Era":
• 3:19
  the
• 3:19
  defining
• 3:20
  transition
• 3:20
  is
• 3:20
  not
• 3:21
  intelligence
• 3:21
  but
• 3:21
  agency
• 3:22
  plus
• 3:22
  persistence,
• 3:23
  models
• 3:23
  are
• 3:23
  increasingly
• 3:24
  interchangeable,
• 3:25
  and
• 3:25
  differentiation
• 3:26
  is
• 3:26
  moving
• 3:26
  into
• 3:27
  the
• 3:27
  harness
• 3:27
  —
• 3:28
  memory,
• 3:28
  routing,
• 3:29
  identity,
• 3:30
  permissions,
• 3:30
  verification,
• 3:31
  provenance
• 3:32
  .
• 3:32
  Its
• 3:33
  sharpest
• 3:33
  line
• 3:33
  is
• 3:33
  the
• 3:33
  asymmetry
• 3:34
  argument:
• 3:35
  one
• 3:35
  AI
• 3:36
  making
• 3:36
  a
• 3:36
  mistake
• 3:36
  once
• 3:36
  is
• 3:37
  annoying;
• 3:37
  ten
• 3:38
  thousand
• 3:38
  autonomous
• 3:39
  agents
• 3:39
  making
• 3:39
  it
• 3:39
  continuously
• 3:40
  is
• 3:40
  infrastructure
• 3:41
  failure
• 3:41
  at
• 3:41
  machine
• 3:41
  speed.
• 3:42
  The
• 3:43
  thesis
• 3:43
  is
• 3:43
  asserted
• 3:44
  rather
• 3:44
  than
• 3:44
  demonstrated
• 3:44
  —
• 3:45
  but
• 3:45
  the
• 3:46
  six-agent
• 3:46
  setup
• 3:46
  above
• 3:47
  is
• 3:47
  the
• 3:47
  demonstration
• 3:48
  at
• 3:48
  small
• 3:48
  scale,
• 3:49
  and
• 3:49
  notably,
• 3:50
  its
• 3:50
  builder
• 3:50
  kept
• 3:50
  every
• 3:51
  consequential
• 3:51
  action
• 3:52
  gated
• 3:52
  on
• 3:52
  a
• 3:52
  human.
• 3:53
  Verification
• 3:54
  is
• 3:54
  where
• 3:54
  the
• 3:54
  tooling
• 3:55
  is
• 3:55
  actually
• 3:55
  maturing.
• 3:56
  The
• 3:56
  old-coder
• 3:57
  skill
• 3:57
  packages
• 3:57
  Robert
• 3:57
  C.
• 3:58
  Martin's
• 3:59
  stated
• 3:59
  strategy
• 3:59
  —
• 4:00
  don't
• 4:00
  read
• 4:00
  the
• 4:00
  agent's
• 4:01
  code,
• 4:01
  make
• 4:01
  it
• 4:01
  run
• 4:01
  a
• 4:01
  gauntlet
• 4:02
  —
• 4:02
  into
• 4:02
  plain
• 4:03
  markdown
• 4:03
  any
• 4:03
  coding
• 4:04
  agent
• 4:04
  can
• 4:04
  follow
• 4:04
  .
• 4:05
  The
• 4:05
  human
• 4:05
  reads
• 4:06
  two
• 4:06
  documents:
• 4:06
  a
• 4:06
  SPEC
• 4:07
  before
• 4:07
  any
• 4:07
  code,
• 4:08
  and
• 4:08
  an
• 4:08
  EVIDENCE
• 4:08
  report
• 4:09
  after,
• 4:09
  backed
• 4:10
  by
• 4:10
  mutation
• 4:10
  testing,
• 4:11
  changed-line
• 4:11
  coverage,
• 4:12
  property-based
• 4:13
  tests,
• 4:13
  real
• 4:13
  execution,
• 4:14
  and
• 4:14
  supply-chain
• 4:15
  and
• 4:15
  secrets
• 4:16
  checks
• 4:16
  —
• 4:16
  and
• 4:17
  anything
• 4:17
  unverified
• 4:18
  is
• 4:18
  labeled
• 4:18
  unverified,
• 4:19
  never
• 4:19
  pass.
• 4:20
  The
• 4:20
  demo
• 4:20
  rate
• 4:20
  limiter
• 4:21
  caught
• 4:21
  8
• 4:21
  of
• 4:21
  8
• 4:21
  deliberately
• 4:22
  planted
• 4:22
  bugs
• 4:23
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• 4:23
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• 4:23
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• 4:23
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• 4:23
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• 4:24
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• 4:25
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• 4:25
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• 4:25
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• 4:25
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• 4:26
  The
• 4:26
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• 4:27
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• 4:27
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• 4:28
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• 4:28
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• 4:28
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• 4:28
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• 4:28
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• 4:28
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• 4:29
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• 4:29
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• 4:29
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• 4:30
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• 4:31
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• 4:31
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• 4:31
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• 4:31
  Codex
• 4:32
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• 4:32
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• 4:32
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• 4:32
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• 4:33
  work:
• 4:34
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• 4:34
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• 4:35
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• 4:35
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• 4:35
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• 4:36
  metadata
• 4:36
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• 4:36
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• 4:36
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• 4:37
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• 4:37
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• 4:37
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• 4:37
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• 4:38
  model,
• 4:38
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• 4:38
  —
• 4:39
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• 4:40
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• 4:40
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• 4:42
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• 4:42
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• 4:42
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• 4:43
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• 4:43
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• 4:43
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• 4:44
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• 4:44
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• 4:44
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• 4:44
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• 4:45
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• 4:46
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• 4:46
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:47
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• 4:48
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• 4:48
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:49
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• 4:50
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• 4:51
  The
• 4:51
  Agent
• 4:51
  Memory
• 4:52
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• 4:53
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• 4:53
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• 4:54
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• 4:54
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• 4:54
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• 4:55
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• 4:55
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• 4:55
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• 4:55
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• 4:56
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• 4:56
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• 4:56
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:58
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• 4:59
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• 4:59
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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• 5:00
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  Add
• 5:01
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• 5:02
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• 5:02
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• 5:03
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• 5:03
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• 5:03
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• 5:04
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:05
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:07
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:08
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• 5:09
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• 5:09
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• 5:09
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:10
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• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:11
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:12
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• 5:13
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• 5:13
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• 5:13
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• 5:14
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• 5:15
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• 5:15
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:16
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:17
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• 5:18
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• 5:18
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• 5:19
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• 5:19
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• 5:20
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• 5:21
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• 5:22
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• 5:22
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• 5:23
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• 5:23
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• 5:23
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:24
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:25
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• 5:26
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• 5:26
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• 5:27
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• 5:27
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• 5:28
  held-out-data
• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:29
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• 5:30
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:31
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:32
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• 5:33
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• 5:33
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• 5:34
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• 5:34
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• 5:35
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• 5:35
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• 5:36
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• 5:36
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:40
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• 5:41
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• 5:41
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• 5:45
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• 5:45
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• 5:46
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:47
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• 5:48
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• 5:48
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• 5:49
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• 5:49
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:50
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• 5:51
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• 5:51
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:52
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• 5:53
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• 5:54
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• 5:54
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• 5:55
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:56
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• 5:57
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:58
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 5:59
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:00
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• 6:01
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• 6:01
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:02
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:03
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• 6:04
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• 6:04
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:05
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• 6:07
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• 6:07
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:08
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• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:09
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• 6:10
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• 6:10
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:11
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• 6:12
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:13
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:14
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:15
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• 6:16
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• 6:17
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• 6:17
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:18
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:19
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• 6:20
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:24
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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:25
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• 6:26
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• 6:27
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• 6:27
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• 6:27
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• 6:28
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• 6:28
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:29
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• 6:30
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• 6:30
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• 6:31
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• 6:31
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• 6:32
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• 6:32
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:33
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:34
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• 6:35
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• 6:35
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• 6:36
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:37
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• 6:40
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• 6:40
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:41
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:42
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• 6:44
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• 6:44
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:45
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• 6:46
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• 6:46
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• 6:47
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• 6:47
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:48
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• 6:49
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• 6:49
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• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:50
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:51
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• 6:52
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:53
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• 6:54
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:55
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:56
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:57
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• 6:58
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• 6:59
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:01
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• 7:02
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• 7:02
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• 7:03
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• 7:03
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• 7:04
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• 7:04
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• 7:04
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• 7:04
  Face
• 7:05
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• 7:05
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• 7:05
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• 7:06
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• 7:06
  Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B
• 7:08
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:11
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• 7:12
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• 7:12
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• 7:13
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• 7:13
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:14
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• 7:15
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• 7:15
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• 7:16
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• 7:16
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• 7:16
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• 7:16
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• 7:17
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• 7:17
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• 7:17
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• 7:17
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• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:18
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• 7:19
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:20
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• 7:21
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• 7:21
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• 7:22
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• 7:22
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• 7:22
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:23
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:24
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:25
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• 7:26
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• 7:26
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• 7:30
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• 7:30
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• 7:31
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• 7:31
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• 7:32
  technical
• 7:32
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
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• 7:33
  community
• 7:33
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:34
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:35
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:36
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• 7:37
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• 7:37
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• 7:38
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• 7:39
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• 7:39
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• 7:39
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• 7:39
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• 7:40
  Diffusion
• 7:40
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• 7:41
  models
• 7:41
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:42
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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:43
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• 7:44
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• 7:44
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• 7:44
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• 7:44
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• 7:44
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• 7:45
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• 7:45
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:46
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:47
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• 7:48
  One
• 7:48
  user
• 7:48
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• 7:49
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• 7:49
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• 7:50
  in
• 7:50
  SYCL
• 7:50
  for
• 7:50
  Intel
• 7:51
  B70
• 7:51
  GPUs
• 7:52
  posted
• 7:52
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• 7:52
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:53
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:54
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• 7:55
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• 7:55
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• 7:56
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• 7:56
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• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:57
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• 7:58
  and
• 7:58
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• 7:59
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• 7:59
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• 8:00
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• 8:00
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• 8:00
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• 8:01
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• 8:01
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• 8:01
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:02
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• 8:03
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• 8:04
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• 8:04
  Early
• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:05
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• 8:06
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• 8:06
  The
• 8:06
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:07
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
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• 8:08
  Spark,
• 8:09
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• 8:09
  tester
• 8:09
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• 8:10
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• 8:10
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• 8:10
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• 8:10
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
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• 8:11
  with
• 8:11
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• 8:12
  prediction,
• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:13
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• 8:14
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• 8:14
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• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:15
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:16
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:17
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• 8:19
  pull
• 8:19
  requests
• 8:19
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• 8:20
  DiffusionGemma
• 8:20
  (24423
• 8:22
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• 8:22
  24427)
• 8:23
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:24
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:25
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:26
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• 8:27
  That
• 8:27
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• 8:27
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• 8:28
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• 8:28
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• 8:28
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• 8:28
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• 8:28
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• 8:29
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:30
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:31
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• 8:32
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• 8:32
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• 8:33
  says
• 8:33
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• 8:33
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• 8:34
  Which
• 8:34
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• 8:34
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• 8:35
  why
• 8:35
  Liquid
• 8:35
  AI's
• 8:36
  LFM2.5-VL-3B
• 8:39
  announcement
• 8:40
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• 8:40
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• 8:40
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• 8:40
  support
• 8:41
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• 8:41
  llama.cpp,
• 8:42
  MLX,
• 8:43
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• 8:43
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• 8:44
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• 8:44
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• 8:44
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• 8:45
  The
• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:45
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• 8:46
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• 8:47
  NaFlex
• 8:47
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• 8:47
  encoder
• 8:48
  with
• 8:48
  Liquid's
• 8:48
  text
• 8:48
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• 8:49
  pre-trained
• 8:50
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• 8:50
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• 8:50
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• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:51
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• 8:52
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• 8:52
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• 8:52
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• 8:52
  data
• 8:53
  of
• 8:53
  prior
• 8:53
  releases
• 8:53
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• 8:54
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• 8:54
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• 8:54
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:55
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• 8:56
  entries
• 8:57
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• 8:57
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• 8:57
  scripts,
• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:58
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• 8:59
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• 8:59
  plus
• 8:59
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• 9:00
  reinforcement
• 9:01
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• 9:01
  It
• 9:02
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• 9:02
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• 9:02
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
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• 9:03
  phase
• 9:03
  to
• 9:04
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• 9:04
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• 9:04
  flat,
• 9:05
  and
• 9:05
  the
• 9:05
  vendor's
• 9:05
  numbers
• 9:06
  are
• 9:06
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• 9:07
  228
• 9:08
  tokens/s
• 9:09
  on
• 9:09
  an
• 9:09
  M5
• 9:09
  Max,
• 9:10
  20
• 9:11
  tokens/s
• 9:11
  fully
• 9:12
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• 9:12
  on
• 9:12
  a
• 9:12
  Galaxy
• 9:13
  S26
• 9:13
  Ultra
• 9:14
  in
• 9:14
  about
• 9:15
  3
• 9:15
  GB
• 9:15
  of
• 9:15
  memory,
• 9:16
  and
• 9:16
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• 9:16
  11K
• 9:17
  output
• 9:17
  tokens/s
• 9:18
  at
• 9:18
  high
• 9:18
  concurrency
• 9:19
  on
• 9:19
  a
• 9:19
  single
• 9:19
  H100.
• 9:20
  Those
• 9:21
  are
• 9:21
  vendor-run
• 9:21
  benchmarks
• 9:22
  in
• 9:22
  direct-answer
• 9:23
  mode
• 9:23
  —
• 9:23
  treat
• 9:24
  the
• 9:24
  screen-understanding
• 9:25
  and
• 9:25
  tool-calling
• 9:25
  claims
• 9:25
  (parity
• 9:26
  with
• 9:26
  Gemma-4-E2B
• 9:27
  and
• 9:27
  Qwen3.5-2B)
• 9:30
  as
• 9:30
  promising
• 9:30
  until
• 9:31
  independent
• 9:31
  testing
• 9:31
  lands.
• 9:32
  Fittingly,
• 9:33
  llama.cpp
• 9:34
  now
• 9:34
  has
• 9:34
  a
• 9:34
  consumer
• 9:35
  front
• 9:35
  door:
• 9:36
  llama.app
• 9:36
  pitches
• 9:37
  "frontier
• 9:37
  AI
• 9:38
  entirely
• 9:38
  on
• 9:38
  your
• 9:38
  machine"
• 9:39
  with
• 9:39
  a
• 9:39
  one-line
• 9:40
  installer,
• 9:41
  a
• 9:41
  llama
• 9:41
  serve
• 9:41
  command,
• 9:42
  and
• 9:42
  a
• 9:42
  pi-llama
• 9:43
  plugin
• 9:44
  letting
• 9:44
  Hugging
• 9:44
  Face's
• 9:45
  Pi
• 9:45
  coding
• 9:45
  agent
• 9:45
  auto-discover
• 9:46
  the
• 9:46
  local
• 9:46
  server
• 9:47
  —
• 9:48
  no
• 9:48
  API
• 9:48
  keys,
• 9:49
  no
• 9:49
  telemetry,
• 9:50
  no
• 9:50
  config
• 9:50
  .
• 9:51
  The
• 9:52
  project
• 9:52
  that
• 9:52
  made
• 9:52
  local
• 9:53
  inference
• 9:53
  possible
• 9:54
  is
• 9:54
  finally
• 9:54
  packaged
• 9:55
  for
• 9:55
  people
• 9:55
  who
• 9:55
  do
• 9:55
  not
• 9:56
  want
• 9:56
  to
• 9:56
  compile
• 9:56
  anything.
• 10:01
  A
• 10:01
  detailed
• 10:01
  r/LocalLLaMA
• 10:02
  benchmark
• 10:03
  makes
• 10:03
  the
• 10:03
  case
• 10:03
  that
• 10:04
  enabling
• 10:04
  PCIe
• 10:05
  peer-to-peer
• 10:05
  (P2P)
• 10:06
  on
• 10:06
  consumer
• 10:06
  Nvidia
• 10:07
  cards
• 10:07
  pays
• 10:07
  off
• 10:07
  even
• 10:08
  on
• 10:08
  systems
• 10:08
  that
• 10:08
  should
• 10:09
  not
• 10:09
  need
• 10:09
  it
• 10:09
  .
• 10:09
  The
• 10:10
  author
• 10:10
  runs
• 10:10
  four
• 10:10
  RTX
• 10:11
  5060
• 10:12
  Ti
• 10:12
  16GB
• 10:13
  cards
• 10:13
  in
• 10:13
  tensor
• 10:13
  parallelism
• 10:14
  under
• 10:14
  vLLM
• 10:15
  on
• 10:15
  an
• 10:15
  8-channel
• 10:15
  EPYC
• 10:16
  with
• 10:16
  ~150GB/s
• 10:18
  of
• 10:18
  RAM
• 10:18
  bandwidth
• 10:18
  —
• 10:19
  precisely
• 10:19
  the
• 10:20
  setup
• 10:20
  where
• 10:20
  routing
• 10:20
  GPU-to-GPU
• 10:21
  traffic
• 10:21
  through
• 10:21
  the
• 10:21
  host
• 10:22
  should
• 10:22
  be
• 10:22
  cheap.
• 10:23
  It
• 10:23
  is
• 10:23
  not:
• 10:24
  with
• 10:24
  P2P
• 10:25
  enabled,
• 10:25
  prompt
• 10:25
  processing
• 10:26
  on
• 10:26
  Qwen3.6-27B-FP8
• 10:30
  jumped
• 10:31
  from
• 10:31
  about
• 10:31
  1,650
• 10:32
  to
• 10:32
  2,305
• 10:33
  t/s,
• 10:35
  and
• 10:35
  with
• 10:35
  multi-token
• 10:35
  prediction
• 10:36
  disabled
• 10:36
  the
• 10:36
  gap
• 10:36
  widened
• 10:37
  to
• 10:37
  1,857
• 10:38
  versus
• 10:38
  2,647
• 10:39
  —
• 10:41
  call
• 10:41
  it
• 10:41
  25
• 10:42
  to
• 10:42
  40
• 10:42
  percent
• 10:42
  of
• 10:42
  prefill,
• 10:43
  free.
• 10:44
  Token
• 10:44
  generation
• 10:44
  gained
• 10:45
  roughly
• 10:45
  10
• 10:45
  percent,
• 10:46
  a
• 10:46
  number
• 10:46
  the
• 10:46
  author
• 10:46
  flags
• 10:47
  as
• 10:47
  noisy.
• 10:47
  The
• 10:48
  recipe:
• 10:48
  enable
• 10:49
  Resizable
• 10:49
  BAR
• 10:50
  in
• 10:50
  BIOS,
• 10:51
  install
• 10:51
  community-patched
• 10:52
  open
• 10:52
  GPU
• 10:52
  kernel
• 10:52
  modules,
• 10:53
  and
• 10:53
  set
• 10:53
  three
• 10:54
  NCCL/vLLM
• 10:56
  environment
• 10:57
  variables.
• 10:58
  Caveats
• 10:58
  apply
• 10:58
  —
• 10:59
  one
• 10:59
  tester
• 10:59
  reports
• 10:59
  NCCL
• 11:00
  2.28.9
• 11:02
  hanging
• 11:02
  during
• 11:02
  P2P
• 11:03
  probing
• 11:03
  with
• 11:03
  the
• 11:03
  patched
• 11:03
  driver,
• 11:04
  and
• 11:04
  a
• 11:04
  commenter
• 11:05
  notes
• 11:05
  AMD
• 11:05
  cards
• 11:05
  see
• 11:06
  similar
• 11:06
  gains.
• 11:07
  The
• 11:07
  context
• 11:07
  that
• 11:07
  makes
• 11:07
  this
• 11:08
  newsworthy:
• 11:09
  P2P
• 11:09
  works
• 11:09
  fine
• 11:09
  on
• 11:10
  this
• 11:10
  silicon.
• 11:11
  Nvidia
• 11:11
  disables
• 11:12
  it
• 11:12
  on
• 11:12
  consumer
• 11:12
  cards
• 11:13
  as
• 11:13
  market
• 11:13
  segmentation,
• 11:14
  and
• 11:14
  the
• 11:14
  community
• 11:14
  keeps
• 11:14
  demonstrating
• 11:15
  —
• 11:16
  with
• 11:16
  drivers,
• 11:16
  not
• 11:16
  forum
• 11:17
  complaints
• 11:17
  —
• 11:18
  that
• 11:18
  the
• 11:18
  datacenter/consumer
• 11:19
  wall
• 11:20
  is
• 11:20
  policy,
• 11:20
  not
• 11:20
  physics.
• 11:22
  The
• 11:22
  same
• 11:22
  wall
• 11:22
  has
• 11:22
  a
• 11:22
  second
• 11:23
  face:
• 11:24
  VRAM
• 11:25
  per
• 11:25
  SKU.
• 11:26
  A
• 11:26
  leak
• 11:26
  claims
• 11:27
  the
• 11:27
  50-series
• 11:27
  Super
• 11:27
  refresh
• 11:28
  will
• 11:28
  bump
• 11:28
  the
• 11:28
  5070
• 11:29
  Ti
• 11:29
  and
• 11:30
  5080
• 11:30
  from
• 11:31
  16GB
• 11:31
  to
• 11:31
  24GB
• 11:33
  and
• 11:33
  the
• 11:33
  5070
• 11:34
  to
• 11:34
  18GB
• 11:34
  via
• 11:35
  3GB
• 11:35
  GDDR7
• 11:36
  modules
• 11:36
  .
• 11:38
  A
• 11:38
  24GB
• 11:39
  Ti-class
• 11:39
  card
• 11:39
  is
• 11:39
  exactly
• 11:40
  what
• 11:40
  local
• 11:40
  inference
• 11:41
  has
• 11:41
  been
• 11:41
  waiting
• 11:41
  for
• 11:41
  —
• 11:42
  mid-size
• 11:42
  models
• 11:43
  at
• 11:43
  decent
• 11:43
  quants
• 11:43
  without
• 11:44
  used-3090
• 11:45
  roulette
• 11:45
  or
• 11:45
  90-class
• 11:46
  prices.
• 11:47
  But
• 11:47
  the
• 11:47
  thread's
• 11:47
  skepticism
• 11:48
  is
• 11:48
  well-founded:
• 11:49
  the
• 11:49
  rumor
• 11:50
  is
• 11:50
  the
• 11:50
  better
• 11:50
  part
• 11:50
  of
• 11:50
  a
• 11:50
  year
• 11:50
  old,
• 11:51
  memory
• 11:51
  is
• 11:51
  reportedly
• 11:52
  sold
• 11:52
  out
• 11:52
  well
• 11:52
  into
• 11:52
  2027,
• 11:54
  and
• 11:54
  Nvidia
• 11:54
  has
• 11:54
  stopped
• 11:55
  supplying
• 11:55
  memory
• 11:55
  kits
• 11:55
  alongside
• 11:56
  GPUs,
• 11:56
  leaving
• 11:57
  OEMs
• 11:57
  to
• 11:57
  source
• 11:58
  GDDR
• 11:58
  themselves.
• 12:00
  Only
• 12:00
  an
• 12:00
  announcement
• 12:00
  and
• 12:00
  a
• 12:00
  street
• 12:01
  price
• 12:01
  will
• 12:01
  settle
• 12:01
  it;
• 12:02
  until
• 12:02
  then,
• 12:02
  the
• 12:03
  consensus
• 12:03
  prediction
• 12:04
  —
• 12:04
  50
• 12:04
  percent
• 12:05
  more
• 12:05
  VRAM,
• 12:05
  100
• 12:06
  percent
• 12:06
  more
• 12:06
  money
• 12:07
  —
• 12:07
  is
• 12:07
  the
• 12:07
  safer
• 12:08
  bet.
• 12:12
  The
• 12:13
  best
• 12:13
  research
• 12:13
  read
• 12:13
  of
• 12:13
  the
• 12:14
  batch
• 12:14
  diagnoses
• 12:14
  a
• 12:15
  failure
• 12:15
  mode
• 12:15
  anyone
• 12:16
  who
• 12:16
  has
• 12:16
  watched
• 12:16
  a
• 12:16
  reasoning
• 12:17
  model
• 12:17
  chew
• 12:17
  through
• 12:17
  a
• 12:17
  long
• 12:18
  document
• 12:18
  will
• 12:18
  recognize:
• 12:19
  repetitive
• 12:19
  copying
• 12:20
  .
• 12:20
  Across
• 12:21
  seven
• 12:21
  frontier
• 12:21
  thinking
• 12:22
  models
• 12:22
  —
• 12:23
  including
• 12:23
  Claude-Opus-4.5,
• 12:24
  DeepSeek-V3.2,
• 12:26
  and
• 12:26
  Qwen-3.5-Plus
• 12:26
  —
• 12:28
  the
• 12:28
  authors
• 12:28
  measured
• 12:29
  how
• 12:29
  much
• 12:29
  of
• 12:29
  each
• 12:29
  reasoning
• 12:30
  trace
• 12:30
  is
• 12:30
  lifted
• 12:30
  verbatim
• 12:31
  from
• 12:31
  the
• 12:31
  prompt
• 12:31
  on
• 12:31
  GSM-Infinite,
• 12:32
  a
• 12:33
  procedurally
• 12:33
  generated
• 12:34
  long-context
• 12:34
  arithmetic
• 12:35
  benchmark.
• 12:36
  At
• 12:36
  8k
• 12:36
  context,
• 12:37
  3-gram
• 12:38
  overlap
• 12:38
  already
• 12:38
  runs
• 12:38
  20
• 12:39
  to
• 12:39
  43.7
• 12:40
  percent;
• 12:40
  by
• 12:40
  64k,
• 12:42
  Qwen-3.5-Plus
• 12:43
  copies
• 12:43
  70.8
• 12:44
  percent,
• 12:44
  and
• 12:45
  over
• 12:45
  half
• 12:45
  of
• 12:45
  Qwen3.5-9B's
• 12:47
  10-gram
• 12:49
  windows
• 12:49
  are
• 12:49
  direct
• 12:49
  transcription.
• 12:50
  Below
• 12:51
  a
• 12:51
  0.4
• 12:51
  overlap
• 12:52
  rate,
• 12:52
  accuracy
• 12:52
  holds
• 12:53
  at
• 12:53
  55–64
• 12:54
  percent;
• 12:55
  above
• 12:55
  it,
• 12:55
  accuracy
• 12:56
  collapses
• 12:56
  to
• 12:56
  11
• 12:57
  percent
• 12:57
  and
• 12:57
  then
• 12:57
  zero
• 12:58
  while
• 12:58
  thinking
• 12:58
  length
• 12:58
  nearly
• 12:59
  triples
• 12:59
  to
• 12:59
  58k
• 13:00
  tokens.
• 13:00
  The
• 13:00
  root
• 13:01
  cause
• 13:01
  is
• 13:01
  not
• 13:01
  copying
• 13:01
  per
• 13:02
  se
• 13:02
  but
• 13:02
  indiscriminate
• 13:02
  copying
• 13:03
  —
• 13:03
  correct
• 13:03
  answers
• 13:04
  cite
• 13:04
  key
• 13:04
  evidence
• 13:04
  selectively;
• 13:05
  wrong
• 13:05
  ones
• 13:06
  transcribe
• 13:06
  filler.
• 13:07
  The
• 13:07
  fix,
• 13:07
  GEAR,
• 13:08
  is
• 13:08
  refreshingly
• 13:09
  mechanical:
• 13:09
  augment
• 13:10
  the
• 13:10
  RL
• 13:10
  accuracy
• 13:11
  reward
• 13:11
  with
• 13:11
  an
• 13:11
  n-gram
• 13:12
  grounding
• 13:12
  reward
• 13:12
  for
• 13:12
  overlap
• 13:13
  with
• 13:13
  annotated
• 13:13
  evidence
• 13:14
  spans
• 13:14
  and
• 13:14
  a
• 13:14
  distractor
• 13:15
  penalty
• 13:15
  for
• 13:15
  overlap
• 13:16
  with
• 13:16
  everything
• 13:16
  else.
• 13:17
  The
• 13:17
  ablation
• 13:17
  is
• 13:18
  the
• 13:18
  finding
• 13:18
  —
• 13:19
  the
• 13:19
  grounding
• 13:19
  reward
• 13:19
  alone
• 13:20
  makes
• 13:20
  models
• 13:20
  worse
• 13:21
  (up
• 13:21
  to
• 13:21
  8.3
• 13:22
  points
• 13:22
  below
• 13:22
  baseline),
• 13:23
  because
• 13:23
  rewarding
• 13:24
  evidence
• 13:24
  engagement
• 13:24
  without
• 13:25
  penalizing
• 13:25
  junk
• 13:25
  just
• 13:26
  teaches
• 13:26
  more
• 13:26
  copying.
• 13:27
  Combined,
• 13:28
  GEAR
• 13:28
  gains
• 13:28
  up
• 13:28
  to
• 13:28
  +4.6
• 13:29
  average
• 13:30
  points
• 13:30
  over
• 13:30
  accuracy-only
• 13:31
  RL,
• 13:32
  with
• 13:32
  larger
• 13:32
  gains
• 13:32
  at
• 13:32
  128k
• 13:33
  than
• 13:33
  at
• 13:33
  the
• 13:33
  16–32k
• 13:35
  training
• 13:35
  lengths,
• 13:36
  while
• 13:36
  cutting
• 13:36
  both
• 13:36
  copying
• 13:37
  and
• 13:37
  trace
• 13:37
  length.
• 13:38
  The
• 13:38
  annotation
• 13:38
  problem
• 13:38
  is
• 13:39
  inverted
• 13:39
  elegantly:
• 13:40
  sample
• 13:40
  document
• 13:40
  chunks
• 13:41
  first,
• 13:41
  generate
• 13:41
  questions
• 13:42
  answerable
• 13:42
  only
• 13:43
  from
• 13:43
  them,
• 13:43
  and
• 13:43
  support
• 13:43
  spans
• 13:44
  come
• 13:44
  free
• 13:44
  by
• 13:44
  construction.
• 13:45
  A
• 13:45
  second
• 13:46
  paper
• 13:46
  applies
• 13:46
  similar
• 13:47
  "look
• 13:47
  inside,
• 13:47
  not
• 13:48
  just
• 13:48
  at
• 13:48
  outputs"
• 13:48
  logic
• 13:49
  to
• 13:49
  quantization.
• 13:50
  Standard
• 13:50
  quantization-aware
• 13:51
  distillation
• 13:52
  trains
• 13:52
  an
• 13:52
  NVFP4
• 13:54
  student
• 13:55
  to
• 13:55
  match
• 13:55
  a
• 13:55
  BF16
• 13:56
  teacher's
• 13:56
  output
• 13:56
  distribution
• 13:57
  via
• 13:57
  KL
• 13:58
  divergence
• 13:58
  —
• 13:59
  and
• 13:59
  the
• 13:59
  authors
• 13:59
  show
• 14:00
  this
• 14:00
  can
• 14:00
  succeed
• 14:00
  while
• 14:01
  internal
• 14:01
  representations
• 14:02
  drift
• 14:02
  badly,
• 14:03
  measured
• 14:03
  by
• 14:03
  CKA
• 14:04
  similarity,
• 14:05
  with
• 14:05
  the
• 14:05
  worst
• 14:05
  drift
• 14:06
  in
• 14:06
  RL-post-trained
• 14:07
  models
• 14:07
  and
• 14:07
  downstream
• 14:08
  damage
• 14:08
  concentrated
• 14:09
  in
• 14:09
  reasoning
• 14:09
  and
• 14:09
  coding
• 14:10
  .
• 14:11
  Their
• 14:11
  CKA-QAD
• 14:13
  adds
• 14:13
  a
• 14:13
  lightweight
• 14:14
  regularizer
• 14:14
  aligning
• 14:14
  layerwise
• 14:15
  Gram
• 14:15
  matrices,
• 14:16
  improving
• 14:17
  recovery
• 14:17
  on
• 14:17
  Nemotron
• 14:18
  3
• 14:18
  Nano
• 14:18
  and
• 14:18
  Qwen3-4B-Thinking.
• 14:21
  Given
• 14:21
  how
• 14:21
  many
• 14:21
  low-bit
• 14:22
  releases
• 14:22
  have
• 14:22
  shipped
• 14:22
  with
• 14:23
  plausible
• 14:23
  perplexity
• 14:24
  and
• 14:24
  broken
• 14:24
  reasoning,
• 14:25
  "output
• 14:26
  matching
• 14:26
  masks
• 14:26
  internal
• 14:27
  degradation"
• 14:28
  is
• 14:28
  a
• 14:28
  diagnosis
• 14:29
  worth
• 14:29
  tattooing
• 14:29
  somewhere
• 14:30
  visible;
• 14:30
  commenters'
• 14:31
  one
• 14:31
  sour
• 14:31
  note
• 14:32
  is
• 14:32
  the
• 14:32
  absence
• 14:33
  of
• 14:33
  citations
• 14:33
  to
• 14:34
  prior
• 14:34
  layer-by-layer
• 14:34
  distillation
• 14:35
  work.
• 14:36
  Both
• 14:36
  lines
• 14:36
  of
• 14:36
  work
• 14:37
  need
• 14:37
  training
• 14:37
  infrastructure,
• 14:38
  and
• 14:38
  Meta's
• 14:39
  torchtune
• 14:39
  paper
• 14:40
  documents
• 14:40
  a
• 14:40
  deliberately
• 14:41
  hackable
• 14:41
  one:
• 14:42
  pure-PyTorch
• 14:43
  model
• 14:43
  builders
• 14:43
  instead
• 14:44
  of
• 14:44
  trainer
• 14:44
  abstractions,
• 14:45
  YAML
• 14:45
  recipes,
• 14:46
  and
• 14:46
  composable
• 14:47
  optimization
• 14:47
  switches
• 14:48
  .
• 14:48
  Two
• 14:49
  engineering
• 14:49
  details
• 14:50
  stand
• 14:50
  out.
• 14:51
  Fusing
• 14:51
  the
• 14:51
  optimizer
• 14:52
  step
• 14:52
  into
• 14:52
  the
• 14:53
  backward
• 14:53
  pass
• 14:53
  —
• 14:54
  bitwise
• 14:54
  identical
• 14:55
  to
• 14:55
  standard
• 14:56
  AdamW
• 14:56
  —
• 14:57
  frees
• 14:57
  gradient-buffer
• 14:58
  memory
• 14:59
  and
• 14:59
  is
• 14:59
  the
• 14:59
  difference
• 14:59
  between
• 15:00
  out-of-memory
• 15:00
  and
• 15:00
  a
• 15:00
  feasible
• 15:01
  Llama
• 15:01
  3.3
• 15:02
  70B
• 15:03
  run
• 15:03
  on
• 15:03
  8
• 15:04
  H100s.
• 15:05
  And
• 15:05
  the
• 15:05
  asynchronous
• 15:06
  GRPO
• 15:06
  recipe
• 15:07
  decouples
• 15:07
  vLLM-backed
• 15:08
  rollout
• 15:08
  generation
• 15:09
  from
• 15:09
  FSDP
• 15:10
  training
• 15:10
  through
• 15:11
  a
• 15:11
  Ray-coordinated
• 15:11
  queue
• 15:12
  and
• 15:12
  replay
• 15:13
  buffer
• 15:13
  with
• 15:13
  bounded
• 15:13
  policy
• 15:14
  lag,
• 15:15
  refreshing
• 15:15
  decoder
• 15:15
  weights
• 15:16
  via
• 15:16
  a
• 15:16
  parameter
• 15:16
  server
• 15:17
  without
• 15:17
  restarting
• 15:18
  collectors.
• 15:19
  Benchmarks
• 15:19
  against
• 15:20
  Axolotl
• 15:20
  and
• 15:21
  Unsloth
• 15:21
  show
• 15:21
  competitive
• 15:22
  throughput
• 15:22
  and
• 15:22
  memory,
• 15:23
  and
• 15:23
  an
• 15:23
  appendix
• 15:24
  demonstrates
• 15:24
  post-training
• 15:25
  on
• 15:25
  roughly
• 15:25
  1M-token
• 15:26
  sequences
• 15:27
  via
• 15:27
  context
• 15:28
  parallelism.
• 15:29
  For
• 15:29
  reproducible
• 15:30
  research,
• 15:31
  transparency
• 15:31
  at
• 15:32
  this
• 15:32
  level
• 15:32
  is
• 15:32
  the
• 15:32
  feature.
• 15:38
  Scenema
• 15:39
  Audio
• 15:39
  is
• 15:39
  now
• 15:39
  a
• 15:39
  native
• 15:40
  ComfyUI
• 15:40
  custom
• 15:41
  node,
• 15:41
  with
• 15:42
  the
• 15:42
  model
• 15:42
  quantized
• 15:43
  to
• 15:43
  fit
• 15:43
  in
• 15:43
  8GB
• 15:44
  of
• 15:44
  VRAM
• 15:44
  —
• 15:45
  a
• 15:45
  real
• 15:45
  change
• 15:46
  from
• 15:46
  the
• 15:46
  original
• 15:46
  release,
• 15:47
  whose
• 15:47
  full-precision
• 15:47
  transformers
• 15:48
  were
• 15:48
  too
• 15:48
  heavy
• 15:49
  for
• 15:49
  most
• 15:49
  self-hosters
• 15:49
  .
• 15:50
  This
• 15:51
  is
• 15:51
  performance-directed
• 15:52
  text-to-speech:
• 15:52
  you
• 15:53
  describe
• 15:53
  how
• 15:53
  a
• 15:53
  line
• 15:53
  should
• 15:54
  be
• 15:54
  delivered,
• 15:54
  optionally
• 15:55
  supply
• 15:55
  reference
• 15:56
  audio
• 15:56
  for
• 15:56
  zero-shot
• 15:57
  voice
• 15:57
  cloning,
• 15:58
  and
• 15:58
  inline
• 15:58
  cues
• 15:59
  like
• 15:59
  a
• 15:59
  bracketed
• 15:59
  laugh
• 15:59
  or
• 16:00
  a
• 16:00
  voice
• 16:00
  crack
• 16:00
  get
• 16:00
  performed
• 16:01
  at
• 16:01
  that
• 16:01
  exact
• 16:01
  spot
• 16:01
  —
• 16:02
  a
• 16:02
  format
• 16:02
  that
• 16:03
  replaced
• 16:03
  the
• 16:03
  original
• 16:03
  release's
• 16:04
  clunky
• 16:04
  XML
• 16:05
  directives.
• 16:06
  The
• 16:06
  dependency
• 16:06
  list
• 16:06
  explains
• 16:07
  the
• 16:07
  30GB
• 16:07
  first-run
• 16:08
  download:
• 16:09
  the
• 16:09
  text
• 16:09
  encoder
• 16:10
  is
• 16:10
  Gemma
• 16:10
  3
• 16:11
  12B,
• 16:11
  a
• 16:11
  gated
• 16:12
  model
• 16:12
  requiring
• 16:12
  a
• 16:12
  Hugging
• 16:13
  Face
• 16:13
  token.
• 16:14
  The
• 16:14
  developers
• 16:14
  are
• 16:14
  upfront
• 16:15
  that
• 16:15
  this
• 16:15
  is
• 16:15
  a
• 16:15
  diffusion
• 16:16
  model,
• 16:16
  not
• 16:16
  deterministic
• 16:17
  TTS
• 16:17
  —
• 16:18
  some
• 16:18
  seeds
• 16:18
  produce
• 16:19
  gibberish;
• 16:19
  generate,
• 16:20
  pick
• 16:20
  the
• 16:20
  best
• 16:20
  take,
• 16:21
  trim.
• 16:22
  Community
• 16:22
  reports:
• 16:23
  eerily
• 16:23
  good
• 16:23
  pacing
• 16:23
  and
• 16:24
  accents,
• 16:24
  an
• 16:25
  Italian-American
• 16:25
  preset
• 16:26
  that
• 16:26
  is
• 16:26
  apparently
• 16:26
  just
• 16:26
  Tony
• 16:27
  Soprano,
• 16:27
  and
• 16:28
  at
• 16:28
  least
• 16:28
  one
• 16:28
  "8GB
• 16:29
  VRAM,
• 16:29
  32GB
• 16:30
  RAM:
• 16:31
  CUDA
• 16:31
  out
• 16:31
  of
• 16:31
  memory."
• 16:32
  The
• 16:32
  voice-conversion
• 16:33
  side
• 16:33
  of
• 16:33
  the
• 16:33
  local
• 16:33
  stack
• 16:34
  is
• 16:34
  getting
• 16:34
  the
• 16:34
  same
• 16:34
  packaging
• 16:35
  treatment.
• 16:36
  VoxWeave
• 16:36
  is
• 16:36
  a
• 16:36
  Windows-native
• 16:37
  RVC
• 16:37
  (retrieval-based
• 16:38
  voice
• 16:38
  conversion)
• 16:39
  workstation
• 16:39
  that
• 16:39
  wraps
• 16:40
  offline
• 16:40
  media
• 16:40
  conversion,
• 16:41
  real-time
• 16:42
  microphone
• 16:42
  voice
• 16:42
  changing,
• 16:43
  and
• 16:44
  batch
• 16:44
  directory
• 16:44
  processing
• 16:45
  around
• 16:45
  a
• 16:45
  single
• 16:45
  local
• 16:46
  service
• 16:46
  .
• 16:46
  The
• 16:47
  engineering
• 16:47
  is
• 16:47
  more
• 16:47
  careful
• 16:47
  than
• 16:48
  the
• 16:48
  genre
• 16:48
  usually
• 16:48
  gets:
• 16:49
  converted
• 16:49
  videos
• 16:50
  keep
• 16:50
  the
• 16:50
  original
• 16:50
  streams
• 16:51
  and
• 16:51
  add
• 16:51
  the
• 16:51
  converted
• 16:52
  track
• 16:52
  rather
• 16:52
  than
• 16:52
  overwriting,
• 16:53
  task
• 16:53
  manifests
• 16:54
  record
• 16:54
  SHA-256
• 16:57
  hashes
• 16:58
  of
• 16:58
  inputs
• 16:58
  and
• 16:58
  models
• 16:59
  so
• 16:59
  retries
• 16:59
  cannot
• 17:00
  silently
• 17:00
  swap
• 17:00
  materials,
• 17:01
  real-time
• 17:02
  mode
• 17:02
  offers
• 17:02
  0.25/0.5/1.0-second
• 17:05
  latency
• 17:06
  budgets
• 17:06
  with
• 17:07
  Silero
• 17:07
  VAD
• 17:07
  gating,
• 17:08
  and
• 17:08
  the
• 17:08
  API
• 17:09
  listens
• 17:09
  only
• 17:09
  on
• 17:09
  loopback
• 17:10
  with
• 17:10
  per-session
• 17:10
  tokens.
• 17:11
  Just
• 17:11
  as
• 17:11
  notable
• 17:12
  is
• 17:12
  what
• 17:12
  it
• 17:12
  refuses
• 17:12
  to
• 17:12
  ship:
• 17:13
  no
• 17:14
  voice
• 17:14
  models,
• 17:15
  and
• 17:15
  an
• 17:15
  explicit
• 17:15
  policy
• 17:16
  that
• 17:16
  users
• 17:16
  must
• 17:16
  secure
• 17:17
  permission
• 17:17
  from
• 17:17
  voice
• 17:18
  subjects,
• 17:18
  model
• 17:19
  authors,
• 17:19
  and
• 17:19
  rights
• 17:20
  holders.
• 17:21
  For
• 17:21
  a
• 17:21
  tool
• 17:21
  category
• 17:22
  that
• 17:22
  can
• 17:22
  imitate
• 17:22
  real
• 17:23
  people
• 17:23
  in
• 17:23
  real
• 17:23
  time,
• 17:24
  building
• 17:24
  provenance
• 17:25
  checks
• 17:25
  and
• 17:25
  consent
• 17:26
  policy
• 17:26
  into
• 17:26
  the
• 17:26
  product
• 17:27
  is
• 17:27
  not
• 17:27
  legal
• 17:28
  decoration
• 17:28
  —
• 17:29
  it
• 17:29
  is
• 17:29
  the
• 17:29
  difference
• 17:30
  between
• 17:30
  an
• 17:30
  instrument
• 17:31
  and
• 17:31
  a
• 17:31
  liability,
• 17:32
  and
• 17:32
  the
• 17:32
  AGPL-licensed
• 17:33
  source
• 17:34
  makes
• 17:34
  the
• 17:34
  boundary
• 17:34
  auditable.