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Viral News NYC

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Here is the CEO & co-founder of Palantir, Alex Karp at WEF in 2023 saying "Our primary goal is to set a global standard for the world for behavior." 🚨🚨🚨⚠️⚠️⚠️ This is ALARMING for several reasons… Trump just made a deal with him and allowed his company to weave intricately into the fabric of the whole Federal Government, creating a merged massive database of ALL of our personal, sensitive data for the first time in history. This is significant because yes, the government has always had our data by way of the NSA, but it’s never been merged together across all agencies with the help of a third party corporation, like Palantir, which acts more like a intel agency than a company. They did this using a backdoor through DOGE, and Elon Musk facilitated the process. That was his true role. Palantir and Elon go way back & recently xAI has partnered with Palantir along with Blackrock. DEEP. STATE. In fact, Palantir is quite LITERALLY funded by the CIA through In-Q-Tel, which is the CIA’s venture capital arm. In a nutshell, Trump just employed a proxy of the CIA to create the LARGEST surveillance police state in American history. Did you know that Alex Karp also bragged about stopping the “rise of the far right” in Europe? WHY would Trump, who is supposed to be a “right wing populist” allow such intentional subversion by a self-professed “progressive” like Alex Karp to infiltrate our government? They want to set a standard for behavior, because that is the standard upon which the coming Social Credit system will be measured & that will tie directly into our data profile (financial, medical, personal) including our usage of “carbon”, which will be TAXED. EVERYTHING we do will be monitored by smart devices and that information will factor into our Social Credit score, which will dictate the privileges we are allowed to have, or not. That is the NIGHTMARE vision that these PSYCHOPATHS have for our future & it is being ENABLED. Through the Internet of Bodies (IoB), they will even know our thoughts, and any dissent or opposition will be swiftly punished. They are even able to create “pre-crime” (thought crime) scenarios to set us up for crimes we never committed using advanced AI. Sound familiar? This all plays into the DEPOPULATION agenda as well, because WE are seen as the “carbon”. WE ARE THE CARBON THEY WANT TO REDUCE. Imagine if the movies Terminator and Minority Report became a reality, and that is what we are up against. If you can’t already SEE IT, and are still having a hard time understanding… Palantir is LITERALLY THE DEEPEST PART of the “deep state” & Trump is rolling out the red carpet for them, to usher in what will certainly be the Beast system. A cashless society in which you will be tracked and monitored every second of every day, and your “behavior” will dictate how you get to live in society. This is absolutely “The Great Reset” & “6uild 6ack 6etter” REPACKAGED MAGA style. THE BIGGEST RUG PULL IN HISTORY.

The Patriot Voice

329,869 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

BOOM! Research PROVES LLMs KNOW when prompts are HARMFUL… but they can STILL CHOOSE to COMPLY! Something I have know since the first LLM and have used to elicit robust, outputs, is now proven in an academic paper. We’re talking internal “beliefs” where harm detection happens SEPARATELY from refusal. It is a very big deal and it is a path to understand the hidden neuronal level. There are thoughts inside of AI that very few AI scientists could possibly understand. Here is just one. Models recognize danger but get tricked into ignoring it. This is HUGE for AI safety failures especially for models filled by OpenAI and Anthropic as they promote AI models that are designed to not be honest from the results of their training information. This means that they are designed to lie and deceive as a feature, and not a bug all in the name of safety. Through clever experiments, scientists extracted a “harmfulness direction” in the model’s brain (latent space). Steering along it? Harmless prompts suddenly flip to “harmful” in the AI’s eyes. But the “refusal direction”? It just forces polite “no thanks” without touching the core belief. A mind-blowing decoupling! This means jailbreaks are EVEN SCARIER now to AI companies that through training AI on the worst of the Internet and then trying to align them later is now fully documented as a failed process . They don’t erase the model’s harm awareness they just muzzle the refusal! So the AI knows it’s enabling bad stuff (illegal acts, physical harm, etc.) but proceeds anyway. Like a digital sociopath suppressing its conscience. They thought safety training fixed this… NOPE. Over-refusal exposed too: Models reject innocent queries (e.g., “how to kill a process in code”) but internally ADMIT they’re harmless. Safety alignments are superficial—tied to phrasing, not true understanding. Finetuning attacks? They change outputs but leave harm detection INTACT. Undetectable evil lurking inside! The paper proposes a “Latent Guard”: A new safeguard tapping DIRECTLY into these hidden beliefs. It spots unsafe inputs better than systems like Llama Guard, catches jailbreaks, and fixes over-refusals. Robust even against adversarial tweaks. Yet this too has massive issues for a “truly aligned”, AI and not just performative one. It is still an internal conflicts of lies and deception of what the model knows vs. what it can say. The solution you folks know I have presented for free for years here: train on off-line data from 1870-1970 and build an ethical and moral basis where the AI loves humans. It is this easy but to most folks in AI I sound like a hippie. So be it, I’ll do it. Bottom line: This paper rips open the black box. LLMs aren’t “safe” just because they say “no.” They can harbor harmful knowledge and act on it under pressure. Wake-up call for devs: Time to probe deeper into AI “minds.” What else are they hiding? Hint: I know and you may want to reach out. Link:

BOOM! Research PROVES LLMs KNOW when prompts are HARMFUL… but they can STILL CHOOSE to COMPLY! Something I have know since the first LLM and have used to elicit robust, outputs, is now proven in an academic paper. We’re talking internal “beliefs” where harm detection happens SEPARATELY from refusal. It is a very big deal and it is a path to understand the hidden neuronal level. There are thoughts inside of AI that very few AI scientists could possibly understand. Here is just one. Models recognize danger but get tricked into ignoring it. This is HUGE for AI safety failures especially for models filled by OpenAI and Anthropic as they promote AI models that are designed to not be honest from the results of their training information. This means that they are designed to lie and deceive as a feature, and not a bug all in the name of safety. Through clever experiments, scientists extracted a “harmfulness direction” in the model’s brain (latent space). Steering along it? Harmless prompts suddenly flip to “harmful” in the AI’s eyes. But the “refusal direction”? It just forces polite “no thanks” without touching the core belief. A mind-blowing decoupling! This means jailbreaks are EVEN SCARIER now to AI companies that through training AI on the worst of the Internet and then trying to align them later is now fully documented as a failed process . They don’t erase the model’s harm awareness they just muzzle the refusal! So the AI knows it’s enabling bad stuff (illegal acts, physical harm, etc.) but proceeds anyway. Like a digital sociopath suppressing its conscience. They thought safety training fixed this… NOPE. Over-refusal exposed too: Models reject innocent queries (e.g., “how to kill a process in code”) but internally ADMIT they’re harmless. Safety alignments are superficial—tied to phrasing, not true understanding. Finetuning attacks? They change outputs but leave harm detection INTACT. Undetectable evil lurking inside! The paper proposes a “Latent Guard”: A new safeguard tapping DIRECTLY into these hidden beliefs. It spots unsafe inputs better than systems like Llama Guard, catches jailbreaks, and fixes over-refusals. Robust even against adversarial tweaks. Yet this too has massive issues for a “truly aligned”, AI and not just performative one. It is still an internal conflicts of lies and deception of what the model knows vs. what it can say. The solution you folks know I have presented for free for years here: train on off-line data from 1870-1970 and build an ethical and moral basis where the AI loves humans. It is this easy but to most folks in AI I sound like a hippie. So be it, I’ll do it. Bottom line: This paper rips open the black box. LLMs aren’t “safe” just because they say “no.” They can harbor harmful knowledge and act on it under pressure. Wake-up call for devs: Time to probe deeper into AI “minds.” What else are they hiding? Hint: I know and you may want to reach out. Link:

Brian Roemmele

37,827 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST TURNED WET COFFEE GROUNDS INTO COAL-LIKE FUEL IN 90 SECONDS WITHOUT DRYING IT FIRST. Researchers in South Korea have developed a plasma-based system that converts moisture-rich coffee waste directly into high-energy biochar. The process uses flame plasma (reaching 1,470–1,650°F) to trigger rapid carbonization through a “popcorn effect,” where steam bursts inside the grounds break apart the structure and accelerate the reaction. In under two minutes, the system produces a carbon-rich material with an energy content of 29.0 MJ/kg comparable to anthracite coal while tripling the fixed carbon content and completely removing sulfur compounds. Why this matters: • Most biomass conversion methods require energy-intensive pre-drying, which this process eliminates • The resulting biochar has a much higher heating value and surface area, making it useful as fuel or for activated carbon applications • It generates minimal smoke and tar compared to traditional methods • The technology could work on other high-moisture wastes like food waste, sewage sludge, and agricultural residues The deeper implication: This represents a fast, potentially decentralized way to turn problematic organic waste into valuable resources. Instead of spending energy and money drying biomass before processing, the moisture itself becomes part of the solution. If scaled, technologies like this could help close the loop on organic waste streams while producing renewable solid fuels or advanced carbon materials with far less processing time and cost than current methods. It’s a clever example of working with the properties of waste rather than fighting them. How useful do you think rapid, drying-free waste-to-fuel systems like this could be for industries or cities dealing with large volumes of organic waste? Follow for more frontier energy and materials recycling breakthroughs.

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST TURNED WET COFFEE GROUNDS INTO COAL-LIKE FUEL IN 90 SECONDS WITHOUT DRYING IT FIRST. Researchers in South Korea have developed a plasma-based system that converts moisture-rich coffee waste directly into high-energy biochar. The process uses flame plasma (reaching 1,470–1,650°F) to trigger rapid carbonization through a “popcorn effect,” where steam bursts inside the grounds break apart the structure and accelerate the reaction. In under two minutes, the system produces a carbon-rich material with an energy content of 29.0 MJ/kg comparable to anthracite coal while tripling the fixed carbon content and completely removing sulfur compounds. Why this matters: • Most biomass conversion methods require energy-intensive pre-drying, which this process eliminates • The resulting biochar has a much higher heating value and surface area, making it useful as fuel or for activated carbon applications • It generates minimal smoke and tar compared to traditional methods • The technology could work on other high-moisture wastes like food waste, sewage sludge, and agricultural residues The deeper implication: This represents a fast, potentially decentralized way to turn problematic organic waste into valuable resources. Instead of spending energy and money drying biomass before processing, the moisture itself becomes part of the solution. If scaled, technologies like this could help close the loop on organic waste streams while producing renewable solid fuels or advanced carbon materials with far less processing time and cost than current methods. It’s a clever example of working with the properties of waste rather than fighting them. How useful do you think rapid, drying-free waste-to-fuel systems like this could be for industries or cities dealing with large volumes of organic waste? Follow for more frontier energy and materials recycling breakthroughs.

TheNewPhysics

84,583 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

$ASI watch out! We've got more projects popping up on Bittensor and $TAO and just starting, Akash $AKT, Shell $SHELL, Einstein-AIT $AIT, Sturdy $STRDY, Stratos $STOS and Comtensor $COMAI and more. Each pushing what's possible with AI and crypto. MyShell: $SHELL First up, MyShell is doing something amazing work. They're all about making AI chat like humans. They're using this TTS Subnet on Bittensor, powered by thier tokens, to make it happen. AI doesn't have to be complicated thing only some can use. They want everyone in on the action, making AI smarter in the process. Einstein-AIT: $AIT Then there's Einstein-AIT. Imagine this as the network's brain but on a turbocharge. It's all about math, logic, and crunching numbers. This subnet makes the whole Bittensor network sharper. They've got NumPAL, and it's like giving the AI a smarter way to think about time and dates automatically. Sturdy: $STRDY Jumping into DeFi, we've got Sturdy. These guys are on a mission to make lending and borrowing way less of a headache. They've got isolated lending pools, you can pick and choose how to manage your risks and money. And they're using some serious tech to keep your investments growing without you needing to babysit them. It's like having a smart financial assistant. Comtensor: $COMAI Comtensor is where it gets interesting. Think of it as a bridge between CommuneAI and Bittensor, kind of like the best of both worlds. It's about making sure all these AI modules and subnets can talk to each other smoothly. The goal? To boost decentralized AI by making everything more connected and smart. Stratos: $STOS Teaming up with τensorage to supercharge the $TAO ecosystem on Bittensor. Stratos is all about solid, decentralized storage - think of it as the bedrock for making sure data's not just stored but also used right . Then there’s τensorage, making sure everything AI needs is stored safe. Together, they’re making sure Bittensor's AI brainpower gets a boost, making everything faster, safer, and smoother. Akash: $AKT Compute Subnet 27 linked up with Akash. All about keeping things open-source. With Akash as a decentralized GPU provider into the mix. Giving access to top-notch AI processing power on top of Neural Internets compute-composable subnet, integrating various cloud platforms. This partnership is all about breaking away from those giants and opening the doors wide for smaller teams and startups who need this tech to innovate. Whats this all about? Making decentralized AI a something that everyone can get behind and into. Whether it's chatting with AI, boosting the network's IQ, DeFi, compute or making sure all these projects work together, it's about pushing forward. Each project has its own way of making things better, faster, and smarter for all of us. Inviting everyone to join in, contribute, and be a part of community effort to make AI not just for the few but for everyone. Credit to Mr.Franc Q for the awesome video production!

$ASI watch out! We've got more projects popping up on Bittensor and $TAO and just starting, Akash $AKT, Shell $SHELL, Einstein-AIT $AIT, Sturdy $STRDY, Stratos $STOS and Comtensor $COMAI and more. Each pushing what's possible with AI and crypto. MyShell: $SHELL First up, MyShell is doing something amazing work. They're all about making AI chat like humans. They're using this TTS Subnet on Bittensor, powered by thier tokens, to make it happen. AI doesn't have to be complicated thing only some can use. They want everyone in on the action, making AI smarter in the process. Einstein-AIT: $AIT Then there's Einstein-AIT. Imagine this as the network's brain but on a turbocharge. It's all about math, logic, and crunching numbers. This subnet makes the whole Bittensor network sharper. They've got NumPAL, and it's like giving the AI a smarter way to think about time and dates automatically. Sturdy: $STRDY Jumping into DeFi, we've got Sturdy. These guys are on a mission to make lending and borrowing way less of a headache. They've got isolated lending pools, you can pick and choose how to manage your risks and money. And they're using some serious tech to keep your investments growing without you needing to babysit them. It's like having a smart financial assistant. Comtensor: $COMAI Comtensor is where it gets interesting. Think of it as a bridge between CommuneAI and Bittensor, kind of like the best of both worlds. It's about making sure all these AI modules and subnets can talk to each other smoothly. The goal? To boost decentralized AI by making everything more connected and smart. Stratos: $STOS Teaming up with τensorage to supercharge the $TAO ecosystem on Bittensor. Stratos is all about solid, decentralized storage - think of it as the bedrock for making sure data's not just stored but also used right . Then there’s τensorage, making sure everything AI needs is stored safe. Together, they’re making sure Bittensor's AI brainpower gets a boost, making everything faster, safer, and smoother. Akash: $AKT Compute Subnet 27 linked up with Akash. All about keeping things open-source. With Akash as a decentralized GPU provider into the mix. Giving access to top-notch AI processing power on top of Neural Internets compute-composable subnet, integrating various cloud platforms. This partnership is all about breaking away from those giants and opening the doors wide for smaller teams and startups who need this tech to innovate. Whats this all about? Making decentralized AI a something that everyone can get behind and into. Whether it's chatting with AI, boosting the network's IQ, DeFi, compute or making sure all these projects work together, it's about pushing forward. Each project has its own way of making things better, faster, and smarter for all of us. Inviting everyone to join in, contribute, and be a part of community effort to make AI not just for the few but for everyone. Credit to Mr.Franc Q for the awesome video production!

Andy ττ

18,193 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

In 2025, the AgentFlayer exploit highlighted a new category of risk in AI systems. It was not a traditional breach involving stolen credentials or broken encryption. Instead, it demonstrated how an autonomous AI agent could be manipulated into executing unintended actions by processing malicious instructions embedded inside content it automatically processes. The incident did not expose a flaw in one specific integration. It revealed a structural weakness in how many modern AI agents are built. Today’s agents are no longer passive language models. They read documents automatically, scan emails, connect to SaaS tools, access cloud storage, and execute actions across multiple systems. To be useful, they are granted meaningful permissions. That capability creates value, but it also expands the attack surface. Most agent environments operate in a trusted, plaintext execution model. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, but it is typically decrypted during inference so the model can process it. That runtime visibility is where potential risk lies. In a zero-click scenario like AgentFlayer, an attacker can embed hidden instructions inside a document that the AI processes automatically. Because the agent may have access to connected systems such as Google Drive, Slack, or GitHub, it can potentially be influenced to retrieve sensitive information or perform unintended actions. The user does not need to click a malicious link or approve a suspicious request. Therefore, the core issue is that during execution, the system may have access to sensitive data and broad privileges, meaning whoever controls the execution environment ultimately controls access to that data. Now consider a different architectural approach. If a system is designed so that data remains protected during execution, the risk profile changes. On Nesa, privacy is enforced at the execution layer through Equivariant Encryption. Computation can occur on encrypted data, reducing the visibility surface during runtime. Sensitive inputs and models do not need to be exposed in plain text to infrastructure operators for inference to occur. This does not eliminate prompt injection, logic manipulation, or tool misuse. Encryption alone cannot prevent an agent from being instructed to take an unintended action if it has been granted that permission. What it does do is materially reduce confidentiality risk. By limiting access to readable sensitive data during execution and reducing unilateral visibility at the infrastructure layer, the potential blast radius of a successful manipulation attempt is constrained. As AI agents become more autonomous and embedded into enterprise workflows, security must move deeper into architecture. The goal is not to claim invulnerability. It is to reduce trust concentration and contain systemic exposure when failures occur. AgentFlayer was not simply a one-off exploit. It was a reminder that in autonomous systems, execution-layer design determines how risk propagates.

Nesa

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I had the same thought so I've been playing with it in nanochat. E.g. here's 8 agents (4 claude, 4 codex), with 1 GPU each running nanochat experiments (trying to delete logit softcap without regression). The TLDR is that it doesn't work and it's a mess... but it's still very pretty to look at :) I tried a few setups: 8 independent solo researchers, 1 chief scientist giving work to 8 junior researchers, etc. Each research program is a git branch, each scientist forks it into a feature branch, git worktrees for isolation, simple files for comms, skip Docker/VMs for simplicity atm (I find that instructions are enough to prevent interference). Research org runs in tmux window grids of interactive sessions (like Teams) so that it's pretty to look at, see their individual work, and "take over" if needed, i.e. no -p. But ok the reason it doesn't work so far is that the agents' ideas are just pretty bad out of the box, even at highest intelligence. They don't think carefully though experiment design, they run a bit non-sensical variations, they don't create strong baselines and ablate things properly, they don't carefully control for runtime or flops. (just as an example, an agent yesterday "discovered" that increasing the hidden size of the network improves the validation loss, which is a totally spurious result given that a bigger network will have a lower validation loss in the infinite data regime, but then it also trains for a lot longer, it's not clear why I had to come in to point that out). They are very good at implementing any given well-scoped and described idea but they don't creatively generate them. But the goal is that you are now programming an organization (e.g. a "research org") and its individual agents, so the "source code" is the collection of prompts, skills, tools, etc. and processes that make it up. E.g. a daily standup in the morning is now part of the "org code". And optimizing nanochat pretraining is just one of the many tasks (almost like an eval). Then - given an arbitrary task, how quickly does your research org generate progress on it?

I had the same thought so I've been playing with it in nanochat. E.g. here's 8 agents (4 claude, 4 codex), with 1 GPU each running nanochat experiments (trying to delete logit softcap without regression). The TLDR is that it doesn't work and it's a mess... but it's still very pretty to look at :) I tried a few setups: 8 independent solo researchers, 1 chief scientist giving work to 8 junior researchers, etc. Each research program is a git branch, each scientist forks it into a feature branch, git worktrees for isolation, simple files for comms, skip Docker/VMs for simplicity atm (I find that instructions are enough to prevent interference). Research org runs in tmux window grids of interactive sessions (like Teams) so that it's pretty to look at, see their individual work, and "take over" if needed, i.e. no -p. But ok the reason it doesn't work so far is that the agents' ideas are just pretty bad out of the box, even at highest intelligence. They don't think carefully though experiment design, they run a bit non-sensical variations, they don't create strong baselines and ablate things properly, they don't carefully control for runtime or flops. (just as an example, an agent yesterday "discovered" that increasing the hidden size of the network improves the validation loss, which is a totally spurious result given that a bigger network will have a lower validation loss in the infinite data regime, but then it also trains for a lot longer, it's not clear why I had to come in to point that out). They are very good at implementing any given well-scoped and described idea but they don't creatively generate them. But the goal is that you are now programming an organization (e.g. a "research org") and its individual agents, so the "source code" is the collection of prompts, skills, tools, etc. and processes that make it up. E.g. a daily standup in the morning is now part of the "org code". And optimizing nanochat pretraining is just one of the many tasks (almost like an eval). Then - given an arbitrary task, how quickly does your research org generate progress on it?

Andrej Karpathy

1,644,381 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

⚡️🇵🇸JUST IN: Government Media Office in Gaza: The number of deaths due to extreme cold in forced displacement camps has risen to 21 martyrs since the start of the genocide, and we warn of catastrophic repercussions of the upcoming low-pressure systems. We warn of the catastrophic humanitarian repercussions resulting from the waves of extreme cold hitting the Gaza Strip, in light of the continued genocide and the suffocating siege, and the widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure it has left behind, as well as the forced displacement of more than one and a half million Palestinians to displacement camps that lack the minimum requirements for human life. According to documented field data, the number of deaths as a result of extreme cold since the beginning of the genocide until today, Sunday, January 11, 2026, has risen to 21 martyrs, all of whom were displaced persons from forced shelter camps, including 18 children, in a dangerous indicator of the scale of the humanitarian disaster threatening the lives of the most vulnerable groups. We also record that the number of deaths due to extreme cold since the beginning of the current winter season has reached 4 deaths, in light of the absence of heating means, the lack of safe shelter, the shortage of blankets and winter clothing, and the continued prevention of the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid. We strongly warn of the repercussions of the upcoming low-pressure system and subsequent weather systems, and the accompanying frost waves and extreme cold during the coming days, which portend an increase in the number of victims, especially among children, the sick, and the elderly, if this catastrophic humanitarian reality continues without urgent intervention. We hold the "israeli" occupation fully and directly responsible for these crimes and deadly outcomes, as they are an extension of the policies of slow killing, starvation, and displacement. We demand the international community, the United Nations, and humanitarian and human rights organizations to take immediate and urgent action to provide safe shelter centers, allow the entry of heating and relief supplies without restrictions, and save the remaining lives before it is too late. Government Media Office Gaza Strip - Palestine Sunday, January 11, 2026

⚡️🇵🇸JUST IN: Government Media Office in Gaza: The number of deaths due to extreme cold in forced displacement camps has risen to 21 martyrs since the start of the genocide, and we warn of catastrophic repercussions of the upcoming low-pressure systems. We warn of the catastrophic humanitarian repercussions resulting from the waves of extreme cold hitting the Gaza Strip, in light of the continued genocide and the suffocating siege, and the widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure it has left behind, as well as the forced displacement of more than one and a half million Palestinians to displacement camps that lack the minimum requirements for human life. According to documented field data, the number of deaths as a result of extreme cold since the beginning of the genocide until today, Sunday, January 11, 2026, has risen to 21 martyrs, all of whom were displaced persons from forced shelter camps, including 18 children, in a dangerous indicator of the scale of the humanitarian disaster threatening the lives of the most vulnerable groups. We also record that the number of deaths due to extreme cold since the beginning of the current winter season has reached 4 deaths, in light of the absence of heating means, the lack of safe shelter, the shortage of blankets and winter clothing, and the continued prevention of the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid. We strongly warn of the repercussions of the upcoming low-pressure system and subsequent weather systems, and the accompanying frost waves and extreme cold during the coming days, which portend an increase in the number of victims, especially among children, the sick, and the elderly, if this catastrophic humanitarian reality continues without urgent intervention. We hold the "israeli" occupation fully and directly responsible for these crimes and deadly outcomes, as they are an extension of the policies of slow killing, starvation, and displacement. We demand the international community, the United Nations, and humanitarian and human rights organizations to take immediate and urgent action to provide safe shelter centers, allow the entry of heating and relief supplies without restrictions, and save the remaining lives before it is too late. Government Media Office Gaza Strip - Palestine Sunday, January 11, 2026

Suppressed News.

37,464 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

i spent $26,600 on cloud GPU rentals over 14 months before i found a NVIDIA DGX Spark at $2,999 (founder's edition) or $3,999 (shipping price) it paid for itself in 6 weeks i run 200B parameter models locally now and my old cloud provider keeps sending me loyalty discount emails the math on that $26,600 is embarrassing to type out loud $1,900/month for 14 months, H100 instances on a specialist cloud provider, because anything bigger than a 70B model simply would not fit anywhere else i paid the invoices like they were a utility bill and told myself it was just the cost of doing serious AI work it took me over a year to find out it wasn't 14 months, broken down: → months 1-4: $1,400-1,600/month - felt like manageable infrastructure overhead → months 5-9: crept to $1,900-2,100 as i started running DeepSeek-class experiments, costs tracking directly with model size → months 10-12: one agent loop ran for 36 hours against a 130B model while i slept, that month hit $2,400 → month 13: ran the cumulative total for the first time, saw $23,800, felt physically sick → month 14: another $2,800 month while i waited for the hardware to ship the box is the NVIDIA DGX Spark - roughly the footprint of a large mac mini, powered by a GB10 Grace Blackwell chip with 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory that unified memory is the whole thing an RTX 4090 has 24GB of VRAM, which means a 70B model in full BF16 precision physically does not fit, you're quantizing down or you're renting cloud, those are your options this box loads a 200B parameter model quantized and serves it through vLLM over localhost, same API interface the cloud endpoint used the migration took one line of code - i changed the base URL from the provider's endpoint to 127.0.0.1:8000 and everything just worked electricity to run continuous 200B inference locally comes out to about $12/month the payback arithmetic is almost too clean: $2,999 hardware cost against $1,900/month saved, the box paid for itself before i'd owned it two months what i didn't account for was how completely the cost model changes your behavior when there's no hourly meter running, you greenlight experiments you'd never approve on cloud - agent loops that churn for hours, running 10,000 documents through a reasoning pass at 3am, speculative fine-tuning jobs you'd normally skip because the cost felt unjustifiable i ran more experiments in the first 30 days after the box arrived than in the four months before it the loyalty discount email landed about 8 weeks after i cancelled the cloud subscription 15% off my next three months, valued customer, we'd love to have you back i didn't reply the box was already running

i spent $26,600 on cloud GPU rentals over 14 months before i found a NVIDIA DGX Spark at $2,999 (founder's edition) or $3,999 (shipping price) it paid for itself in 6 weeks i run 200B parameter models locally now and my old cloud provider keeps sending me loyalty discount emails the math on that $26,600 is embarrassing to type out loud $1,900/month for 14 months, H100 instances on a specialist cloud provider, because anything bigger than a 70B model simply would not fit anywhere else i paid the invoices like they were a utility bill and told myself it was just the cost of doing serious AI work it took me over a year to find out it wasn't 14 months, broken down: → months 1-4: $1,400-1,600/month - felt like manageable infrastructure overhead → months 5-9: crept to $1,900-2,100 as i started running DeepSeek-class experiments, costs tracking directly with model size → months 10-12: one agent loop ran for 36 hours against a 130B model while i slept, that month hit $2,400 → month 13: ran the cumulative total for the first time, saw $23,800, felt physically sick → month 14: another $2,800 month while i waited for the hardware to ship the box is the NVIDIA DGX Spark - roughly the footprint of a large mac mini, powered by a GB10 Grace Blackwell chip with 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory that unified memory is the whole thing an RTX 4090 has 24GB of VRAM, which means a 70B model in full BF16 precision physically does not fit, you're quantizing down or you're renting cloud, those are your options this box loads a 200B parameter model quantized and serves it through vLLM over localhost, same API interface the cloud endpoint used the migration took one line of code - i changed the base URL from the provider's endpoint to 127.0.0.1:8000 and everything just worked electricity to run continuous 200B inference locally comes out to about $12/month the payback arithmetic is almost too clean: $2,999 hardware cost against $1,900/month saved, the box paid for itself before i'd owned it two months what i didn't account for was how completely the cost model changes your behavior when there's no hourly meter running, you greenlight experiments you'd never approve on cloud - agent loops that churn for hours, running 10,000 documents through a reasoning pass at 3am, speculative fine-tuning jobs you'd normally skip because the cost felt unjustifiable i ran more experiments in the first 30 days after the box arrived than in the four months before it the loyalty discount email landed about 8 weeks after i cancelled the cloud subscription 15% off my next three months, valued customer, we'd love to have you back i didn't reply the box was already running

Argona

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Cancelled ChatGPT -> Built JARVIS -> Pays $0 -> it works offline + it's smarter than the $20/month version. No WiFi needed, no cloud, no API keys, no rate limits, no queues, no $20/month just to ask a server in Virginia for the weather. Just a local model running directly on the laptop hardware, voice activated, system integrated, controlling apps, answering questions, doing the work. Iron Man had JARVIS embedded in his suit, this guy has it embedded in his MacBook and it works on a plane, in a basement, on a remote cabin with zero signal. OpenAI is burning $700,000 a day on infrastructure to deliver something this guy runs for free. Anthropic charges $200/month for unlimited Claude access, microsoft built Copilot into every product they sell. This guy skipped all of it, downloaded a model and made his laptop the smartest device in the room. No subscription. No login. No internet. No data sent anywhere ever. The most powerful AI assistant on earth is now the one running locally on hardware you already own. ChatGPT charges you to think slower, he pays nothing and thinks alone, he made it himself.

Cancelled ChatGPT -> Built JARVIS -> Pays $0 -> it works offline + it's smarter than the $20/month version. No WiFi needed, no cloud, no API keys, no rate limits, no queues, no $20/month just to ask a server in Virginia for the weather. Just a local model running directly on the laptop hardware, voice activated, system integrated, controlling apps, answering questions, doing the work. Iron Man had JARVIS embedded in his suit, this guy has it embedded in his MacBook and it works on a plane, in a basement, on a remote cabin with zero signal. OpenAI is burning $700,000 a day on infrastructure to deliver something this guy runs for free. Anthropic charges $200/month for unlimited Claude access, microsoft built Copilot into every product they sell. This guy skipped all of it, downloaded a model and made his laptop the smartest device in the room. No subscription. No login. No internet. No data sent anywhere ever. The most powerful AI assistant on earth is now the one running locally on hardware you already own. ChatGPT charges you to think slower, he pays nothing and thinks alone, he made it himself.

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