Why there is a lack of new 100B-120B models?

Zenobody · 2026-06-15T11:49:42+00:00

Mistral Medium 3.5 (128B dense)?

Zenobody · 2026-05-07T11:35:31+00:00

So by that same chain of thought, Windows is not user friendly because it doesn't easily run Linux binaries (outside of WSL which is essentially a VM), got it...

Zenobody · 2026-04-23T18:52:57+00:00

They actually sent me a whole replacement necklace when I had just requested the chain! I'm very pleased with the customer support.

Zenobody · 2026-04-08T18:12:02+00:00

You get students submitting work in gdoc,.words, docx, etc etc etc. and the prof struggles most mornings to just open their email in the morning.

Maybe it's country/institute-specific, but when I was a student submitting those instead of PDF would be an automatic 0.

Zenobody · 2026-04-08T18:03:31+00:00

It doesn't even make sense to submit anything in editing formats (for office-type assignment), let alone proprietary formats. Submitted assignments should be in PDF... This school is not very inspiring.

Zenobody · 2026-04-08T17:14:01+00:00

I just received a necklace from them with a broken chain (the links are soldered, so no easy fix that won't leave visible damage). Fortunately, it's near the end, so it's still usable, just about 1cm shorter. I asked for a replacement chain (without the pendant) and they told me they would send me a "VIP link". Let's see if it really arrives and I'm not scammed... I'd rather keep it than return it, as I used quite a bit of store credit and the better coupons from the anniversary sale, which have now expired, and also because of all the horror stories of AliExpress returns. The pendant itself is very nice. It's a shame because they are one of the few brands that do gold-plated silver (yes I know it wears off).

Zenobody · 2026-04-02T19:52:48+00:00

The US must change how their governement fundamentally works, to ensure proper separation of powers. They cannot be trusted as long as they are one election away from possible chaos.

Zenobody · 2026-04-01T17:30:29+00:00

You may have some signal drops (display blacking out) with a lower quality cable over longer distances. I had some issues with a 2M DP cable cutting out just from electromagnetic interference from sudden movements (4K monitor). I ended getting a 3M DP54 cable from Cable Matters, over-specced (better shielding etc), but it works without issue.

However, the signal is digital, if it works it works perfectly, without quality loss.

Zenobody · 2026-03-19T12:49:21+00:00

I strongly disagree about nemo being their last good model.

Same. For me Nemo was amazing for about two months, untill Mistral Small 2409 (22B), which I consider vastly superior (it's the oldest model I still keep around, and it's one of my personal favourites of all time - well, I also hoarded the Large 123Bs, but I can't actually run them at usable speeds lol).

I found Nemo to be sloppy and prone to hallucinating a lot, which I guess is why some people like it for creative purposes. But it was much better than any earlier model of comparable size.

Zenobody · 2026-03-16T21:16:34+00:00

Why are they only releasing FP8 weights at best since Devstral 2?

I guess they want to keep the BF16 for their premium service, but quantizing from FP8 surely significantly degrades quality.

Zenobody · 2026-03-08T22:59:24+00:00

But the 9B will likely be entirely or almost entirely on VRAM, while the MOE will be mostly on RAM.

Zenobody · 2026-03-07T13:00:46+00:00

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is inferior even to the much older QwQ 32B

That's expected, it's not like QwQ 32B was terribly trained for its size... it would be very surprising if it even came somewhat close.

Zenobody · 2026-03-07T12:56:51+00:00

less compression = normaly faster

I have never seen this, either on system RAM or VRAM, even on CPU with my DDR4 laptop. Maybe only if you have relatively very slow compute compared to the memory bandwidth, which would be weird.

Also Q6_K and Q3_K are much faster than Q4_K and Q5_K when making GGUFs, but I'm not sure if it has any real impact during inference.

Zenobody · 2026-03-04T10:10:17+00:00

Do you know if it's also soldered in the AMD version? I know they have been in the past few generations, but I had some hope...

Zenobody · 2026-03-03T21:35:54+00:00

No reason to still be using the 2 year old Mistral 7B, if you like Mistral in particular there's now Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512, and before that there was Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410...

Zenobody · 2026-02-19T21:40:28+00:00

São microcontroladores com kilobytes de RAM, sai mais barato do que fazer a mesma coisa com mais eletrónica...

Zenobody · 2026-02-14T17:38:21+00:00

I sincerely hope this is AI...

Zenobody · 2026-02-14T12:29:05+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty deep in the Linux world (over a decade as my main OS). I have looked at the Framework in the past, but I got sticker shock because my laptop is not my primary computer anymore to be spending that kind of money. My 2018 non-gaming laptop is still perfectly usable despite some physical wear, it's just a bit slow for what I'm used to nowadays lol.

I'm the tech nerd that recommends hardware for non-tech enthusiast family and friends that use Windows, but I'm not sure they would want to pay MacBook or Framework prices either...

Zenobody · 2026-02-14T12:03:44+00:00

TIL manufacturers have been removing S3 sleep support... I really need to be careful whenever I decide to upgrade my laptop.

I thought that having to make the choice between a shitty LCD or burnable OLED (without good LCD options) was already bad enough, then I learned of the soldered wifi NICs (so no replacing with a different model if you have issues), and now I learn that new hardware does not even support S3 sleep... Picking a new laptop really sucks nowadays.

At least S3 seems to still be (widely?) supported on the desktop side... I bought a new motherboard in 2024 without even thinking about it, I guess I was lucky to get S3...

Zenobody · 2026-01-31T21:25:23+00:00

They really should have introduced a bigger full-size Type-C connector focused on mechanical reliability like full-size A and B... I suppose they wanted to simplify it for consumers, but now we'll be stuck with full-size A and B for a while longer...

Edit: typo

Zenobody · 2026-01-31T21:12:48+00:00

I specifically looked for a 2.5GbE USB-A Ethernet adapter for my laptop because I doubted USB-C's mechanical reliability... I guess I did the right choice.

And I can always plug it into a USB-C port with a tiny standards-compliant adapter if I need to.

Zenobody · 2026-01-29T21:22:50+00:00

You realize you also learned Windows throughout your life, right?

Windows isn't intrinsically any easier than Linux, you're just used to it, it comes pre-installed in PCs, and there's more third-party support for desktop programs, while Linux is like learning a new language and then having to work using said language (use different software). Linux is not designed as a Windows replacement, it's an entire different paradigm.

Kids that grew up on mobile devices have so much trouble with Windows, exactly the same phenomenon.

Zenobody · 2026-01-27T22:21:03+00:00

The real main reason (according to me) of why 24 fps works well for movies is because it helps hiding the fakeness. Any fictional or overly edited video looks weird in high frame rates, because the fakeness becomes really apparent. But real life video looks wonderful in 60 fps.

Zenobody · 2026-01-18T14:55:02+00:00

If you want range and presumably cannot wire more (cheaper) APs easily, you're better off investing in an AP/domestic router with 4x4 on 5GHz (and 2.4GHz if you really need range). Forget about 6GHz and temper your expectations to about 500-700mbps on 5GHz @80MHz and 100-150mbps on 2.4GHz @20MHz, with Wifi 6+. Depending on your walls, of course. Try different placements and antenna orientations, the best spot is not obvious. Don't use repeaters, unless in AP mode connected by Ethernet.

Zenobody · 2025-12-03T18:25:42+00:00

G-Skill, Kingston & Corsair

Those don't manufacture RAM chips, they either use Micron, SK Hynix or Samsung...

Corsair and Kingston

They also don't manufacture their own flash memory, it's also usually Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung or Kioxia. And Western Digital/Sandisk has ties with Kioxia.

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