A month back i was trying to figure out whether qubic was doing something genuinely novel or just wrapping distributed hardware incentives in a more interesting story. After sitting with it longer, one side of that question has gotten clearer. the othe…

a year ago there was a clear tier gap. now i'm less sure, but not in the way i expected. the tasks where open-weight models have genuinely caught up are real: coding assistance, summarization, instruction following, solid day-to-day reasoning. for …

I strongly believe that compute access is doing more to shape AI progress right now than any algorithmic insight – not because ideas don't matter but because you literally cannot test big ideas without big compute and only a handful of organization…

there's this network that launched recently routing crypto mining hardware toward AI training workloads. miners seem happy with the economics but that's not what i care about my question: is the AI output actually useful? running hardware is ea…

I follow AI infrastructure pretty closely and Qubic keeps coming up in my research in a way I find intersting but havent seen much discussion of in AI-focused comunities. Quick background for people who havent heard of it: Qubic uses what they call Use…