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The GlobeNewswire release on September 22 pitches 29 billion total parameters with 4 billion activated at enterprise agentic work that runs on a consumer GPU. The Hugging Face API dates the upload to September 16, and it already shows 30,627 downloads and 1,236 likes, with GGUF and FP8 variants at 7,329 and 420. The download count is the adoption signal, not the press release. (Hugging Face)
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Salesforce released Koa, built by post-training Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Nvidia's open-weight hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE with 120B total and 12B active parameters (TechCrunch, paper at arXiv 2609.15066). The training was GRPO reinforcement learning on public and synthetic data...
The day's highest-scoring r/LocalLLaMA post points out the deal takes the llama.cpp and ggml copyright along with the team Hugging Face hired in February 2026, including Georgi Gerganov (r/LocalLLaMA). The top reply at 957 upvotes is "If it happens, we shall fork and move on....
For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
Ollama cut v0.34.0-rc1 on September 5 at 23:49 UTC, and the headline item changes the shape of the local-versus-hosted decision rather than the performance of either side: Ollama-hosted open models can be selected directly inside ChatGPT Desktop, with setup driven from the Oll...
$12,930,300,000. Not "about $13 billion." That exact figure is in Jensen Huang's September 3 post, and the precision is the first sign this is a signed agreement rather than the leak-stage reporting we got in late August. NVIDIA's blog frames the platform in the numbers that m...
TechCrunch strings together three deals: Nvidia's reported $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition, its $6 billion Poolside arrangement, and Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for over $7 billion about two weeks before August 28. The thesis is acquirers hedging against frontier-l...
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