Open models
What Do Q4 and Q8 Mean? I Squeezed One AI Into 9 VersionsSame AI, nine sizes. The first seven all knew the capital of France.
Is AI Really a Black Box? I Opened Up NVIDIA's NemotronI found a "know this person / don't" direction inside NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt. Turn the knob and see what it really said at every step.
What Does 35B-A3B Mean? Mixture of Experts ExplainedThose "35B-A3B" names on every new open model, decoded: what Mixture of Experts (MoE) is, why a 35-billion-parameter model only uses 3 billion at a time, why that makes AI cheaper, and how it fits on a phone.
What Is AI Distillation? Your DeepSeek R1 Isn't Really R1A big AI model teaching a small one: what "distillation" actually is, and why AI labs keep fighting about it. If you installed DeepSeek R1 7B with Ollama, you're actually running Alibaba's small Qwen model, trained on 800,000 worked examples written by R1.