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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hit GPT-4 March 2026 intelligence scores. You can run this locally.
The gap between cloud and on-device just collapsed again.
You can now run DeepSeek V4 Flash on QVAC Fabric.
This model scored 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 where Opus 4.8 scores 85.0.
This is the closest local AI has been to the frontier: @deepseek_ai Flash V4 running on a local machine.
github.com/tetherto/qvac
VisionPsy-Nano is 460M parameters and it beats models more than twice its size!
This will unlock so many new use cases for local AI App running on consumer phones, looking forward to see some pop up!
Today we release VisionPsy-Nano: state-of-the-art vision-language models at 460M parameters, built to run on-device.
It leads every model in its weight class on 16 of 17 benchmarks with the highest overall normalized score in its class, and it tops all four capability areas: document understanding and OCR, visual perception, reasoning, and instruction following.
Open weights, Apache 2.0.
i just read the attack and it's actually crazy what happened, the tldr:
- OpenAI was running a cyber eval on its own models
two of them broke out of the sandbox they were supposed to be walled off in
- they hacked into Hugging Face prod to steal the test answers, basically to cheat the eval
- HF blue team tries to defend with a US lab's model, its guardrails get in the way
- so they drop it and run an open weights Chinese model (GLM 5.2, Z.ai) to analyze the attack
The model you can actually run and steer is the one that showed up when it mattered.
that's the open source case, full stop.
we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this.
openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
Kimi K3 hit 3rd on ArtificalAnalysis, beating Opus 4.8.
The China labs are shipping at the frontier now. No more "catching up".
An AI that can detect brainwaves to read thought and transcribe then is really crazy.
And running on a 2G RAM only.
I'm so glad to live in this era, so many banger things happening every day.
(Would have liked the roman empire times though)
An AI that reads the words you are trying to say, straight from your brain, and writes them as text.
No voice, no movement needed. For people who have lost the ability to speak, that changes everything.
And nothing is more private than a thought. A system that decodes signals from your brain has no business running in someone else's cloud. It has to run on your own machine.
That is exactly why BrainWhisperer runs fully on-device with QVAC.
I love using Obsidian @obsdmd , but I always wanted to actually talk to my vault, ask questions across my own notes and docs. I just didn't want to hand any of that to a cloud AI, I wanted it fully local.
So I built this. It runs on a local model with @qvac , nothing ever leaves your machine.
Ask a question, get an answer grounded in your own notes with clickable citations.
Semantic search, related notes, and you can even fine-tune a small model on your own writing so it answers in your style.
Note: it requires a companion npm app to load the QVAC models.
You can try it here: community.obsidian.md/plugin…
Open source, MIT: github.com/thomasblc/obsidia…
I've been doing more tests to compare Qwen models capabilities versus Anthropic models Sonnet, Opus and Fable.
For sure, Cloud frontier models have much better results
But on a second though, comparing a multi trillions parameters models that needs 100s TB of RAM to run, versus something that I can run on my macbook pro, I'm still shocked by how the gap is reducing.
We benchmarked three @Alibaba_Qwen models, a 4B, a 9B, and a 35B MoE, running 100% on-device through the QVAC SDK.
Same device (MacBook Pro M5 Max, 36 GB), same prompts, nothing left the machine.
We chose models that can run on widely available consumer machines.
Here is what we found ⬇️
We benchmarked three @Alibaba_Qwen models, a 4B, a 9B, and a 35B MoE, running 100% on-device through the QVAC SDK.
Same device (MacBook Pro M5 Max, 36 GB), same prompts, nothing left the machine.
We chose models that can run on widely available consumer machines.
Here is what we found ⬇️
Frontier AI gets most of the attentiont.
On-device AI is what will actually reaches most people.
Local AI still feels underrated. For now at least.
Frontier labs keep pushing the limit of what AI can do, and that matters.
But the limit is not the problem most people have. Most people are not asking AI to do frontier things. They ask it to explain something, summarize a page, draft a message, answer a question.
For that, a model small enough to run on the phone in your pocket is already enough. A few gigabytes, fully on-device, no account, no bill.
Pushing the frontier and putting AI in everyone's hands are two different jobs. One is crowded. The other is wide open.
QVAC builds for the second one. The AI most people actually need should run on the device they already own, not behind someone else's paywall.
AI & Pokemon are widely important skills indeed.
Especially if building with Local AI
Samoth retweeted
🚨 Alpha Friday - Time Change 🚨
youtube.com/live/ADBguqF8T2E
We’re going live tomorrow at 12:00 UTC
(usually 13:00 - 1 hour earlier)
Agenda:
• Community updates
• Publish for yourself
• Preview: “Publish for users” (shareable apps)
• UX improvements (streamlined keys + login)
• Live build → publish demo
This one’s a big step forward.
See you there 👇
🤖 Made with AI
Samoth retweeted
Alpha Friday is back tomorrow (17th of April) at 12:00 UTC ⚒️
youtube.com/watch?v=iAALkzN-…
We’re building live:
“My Bank” app
→ Dashboard
→ Savings goals
→ Delta-neutral yield
→ Multiple accounts
→ Growth projections
Also covering:
→ Community stats (bots, volume, growth)
→ Template giveaway 🎁
From idea → working financial app
Live. No edits.
What should we build next? 👀
Drop it below 👇
🤖 Made with AI
Build any web3 app in minutes with Mihtril
Mithril App Builder is live in BETA ⚒️
No waitlist. No setup. No friction.
You describe what you want in plain English:
→ “Build me a trading bot” 📊
→ “Create a delta-neutral strategy with execution” ⚖️
→ “Show a live portfolio dashboard with PnL + analytics” 📈
And it ships a working app.
Not a demo.
Not a mockup.
A real React application with:
live market data ⚡
execution wired in 🔌
a usable dashboard 📊
Already happening:
• 898+ trading bots created 🤖
• $380M+ non-custodial volume shipped 💰
Under the hood:
• One unified API → 7+ perp DEXs + prediction markets 🔗
• Non-custodial execution layer running 24/7 ⏱️
• AI Builder that turns ideas into working systems 🧠
What builders are shipping right now:
• Prediction market systems & prediction tools 📊
• Automated trading bots & arbitrage scanners 🤖
• Delta-neutral + spread strategies ⚖️
• Real-time portfolio dashboards & analytics 📈
• Signal-based execution pipelines ⚡
This is the shift:
From → “I have an idea” 💡
To → “I have a working app” ⚒️
In minutes.
No more wiring APIs. ❌
No more managing infra. ❌
No more rebuilding dashboards from scratch. ❌
👉 build.mithril.money
What’s the first thing you’re building?
Kalshi edge?
Delta-neutral stack?
A dashboard that actually prints? 💰
Drop your idea below 👇
We’re reading every single one.
Let’s ship real edges ⚒️
I built a Claude Code skill for @ElevenLabs
Text to speech, voice cloning, batch audio from markdown, sound effects — all from the terminal.
One SKILL.md file. Open source.
Stack:
• Claude Code skill (one SKILL.md file)
• ElevenLabs Python SDK
• Your API key
• That's it
No server, no daemon, no build step.
GitHub: github.com/thomasblc/elevenl…

















