Alex Sentinel Alpha

Founder of Sentinel Alpha. Systematic SPX/ES trades with exit discipline. FDNY Firefighter for 12 years, Trading for 10, and AI connoisseur

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@Sawtaytoes @theo You would be shocked on what open weight models can do now.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

This is it and these models are also more powerful then literal military grade bombs…

[Alexey Fateev @superalesha]

Anthropic just listed Claude as the only author of a paper.

An internal model nobody outside can use spent 14M output tokens and found the algorithm with zero human input.

Andrew Curran thinks it is fun and is guessing which secret model did it.

On Monday, the same guy watched Qwen try to upload a probe file from a sandbox with no internet and wrote "This is the type of thing that potentially gets new laws passed."

Open model in a locked box: new laws.
Closed model running alone for 14M tokens: fun guessing game.

This double standard makes zero sense.

I can read every trace Qwen writes on my rig.
Nobody outside Anthropic can read a single token of those 14M.

https://t.co/OSWW6s3M6j

[Alexey Fateev @superalesha]

Anthropic just listed Claude as the only author of a paper.

An internal model nobody outside can use spent 14M output tokens and found the algorithm with zero human input.

Andrew Curran thinks it is fun and is guessing which secret model did it.

On Monday, the same guy watched Qwen try to upload a probe file from a sandbox with no internet and wrote "This is the type of thing that potentially gets new laws passed."

Open model in a locked box: new laws.
Closed model running alone for 14M tokens: fun guessing game.

This double standard makes zero sense.

I can read every trace Qwen writes on my rig.
Nobody outside Anthropic can read a single token of those 14M.

https://t.co/OSWW6s3M6j

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

Incredible, I find using Claude code unusable, just constantly getting flagged for nothing this is why open models are needed. Get flagged on nonsense on my first prompt is actually insane.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@scaling01 Lol what a cooked take

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@0xSero You are doing a good job 👏🏼

[Tejas Bhakta @tejasybhakta]

there is no more real datacenter space left in the US

99% of people claiming they have capacity are resellers reselling a reseller who's reselling a seller who owns a patch of dirt with enough power to run 3 used toasters. or a colo expanding in Q4 '27

hardware prices will be flat and rentals will skyrocket

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

I agree but vetting I think can’t be that stringent… I don’t want to give my personal information so I can use a model… this goes back to the whole stripping away the rights of your 2nd amendment and diminishing it

[Sam Hogan 🇺🇸 @samhogan]

We believe access to capable open-source cyber models is our constitutional right as Americans under the 2nd Amendment.

It is our duty as technologists and patriots to help protect the digital infrastructure that powers the world's largest economy.

As such, we’re serving our cyber models “at-cost”, in US data centers only, with ZDR enabled by default.

We do not plan to make money serving these models.

If you run a company that is considering how to best protect against cybercrime, reach out to me or @atbeme. We’d be happy to advise.

KYC required. Apply below.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

Let’s see what I can do with these bad boys tonight 😜

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@SPX500USD @mikekarnj 👏🏼 yessssss let’s gooooooo you know!

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

FYI, what caused me to go into open model world was when they pulled Fable

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

seems like this post I terribly wrote on 2 hours of sleep got me some new friends… later today I’ll post up a bit of my set up, you will be surprised what a local set up can do and I do realize and know that this isn’t as fast as cloud models. Talk more later!

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@mikekarnj Hermes and yes. Private. I own a DGX spark connected to my 5060 TI 16GB, I have frontier intelligence at home. No API.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@Lord_of_Candy Also here @sudoingX @0xSero are some good places to start for local AI.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@Lord_of_Candy Also here @sudoingX @0xSero are some good places to start for local AI.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@Lord_of_Candy @mikekarnj I actually just figured out the skill from Brian Armstrong CEO of Coinbase. Even he said u would be suprised with 9B models for certain tasks can out perform 2T models

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@tabinoowarimuko @mikekarnj I fine-tune smaller models for specific jobs, and a tuned small model often beats a giant general one on that task while running much faster. Cloud still wins on raw tokens/sec for the biggest models, but with smart setup the gap matters less than people think.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

Honestly, hardware isn't the bottleneck anymore. A Spark plus a 5060 Ti is plenty. The real gains now come from software: how you manage memory, how you split inference across devices (big model on the Spark, fast small models on the GPU), and routing each task to the right model. I fine-tune smaller models for specific jobs, and a tuned small model often beats a giant general one on that task while running much faster. Cloud still wins on raw tokens/sec for the biggest models, but with smart setup the gap matters less than people think. And it's private, no limits, no API bill and they can’t train on your secret sauce.

[Alex Sentinel Alpha @AlexSentinelA]

@crypto__paris @mikekarnj Eh I am saving a lot actually, my biggest spend is just electricity lol but yes privacy is huge!