Nvidia agreed to buy the open-weight model platform Hugging Face for roughly $13B (up from a $4.5B valuation in 2023), putting the home of most open weights under Nvidia's control.
AI cloud Lambda secured $1B in short-dated debt via JPMorgan to buy Nvidia chips and lease them to Microsoft, with a $3B pre-IPO round reportedly in the works.
A cross-platform Markdown notebook under 100 MB ships llama.cpp and ONNX so Qwen3, Parakeet transcription and OCR all run locally with no account or API key.
Free self-hosted chatbot platform that grounds answers on your site or PDFs and works with OpenRouter, Groq, Ollama or vLLM, embeddable as a two-line widget.
An open-source companion interface to monitor Herdr coding agents from your phone, open real terminals)Skip, send files and get notifications via passkey auth on a private Tailscale address.
A Home Assistant integration replaces full entity dumps with MCP-based entity discovery, dropping voice-assistant LLM context to about 400 tokens with a 90-94% prompt-cache hit rate on local and cloud models.
A 700+ reply mega-thread documents building a fully local, agentic 'Friday' voice assistant with Voice Assistant tools, MCP servers and the modular ZenOS-AI framework.
Qualcomm's new on-device AI processor pairs an 8-core Kryo 670 CPU with a dedicated NPU and Hexagon DSP for up to 12 dense TOPS, targeting robotics, vision systems and smart warehouses under a Product Longevity Program.
The MX1 CXL memory-expansion device hosts up to 2TB of DDR5 plus 3,072 RISC-V cores in a 40W near-memory design to ease memory-bandwidth bottlenecks for large-model workloads.
Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.
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