Daniel

Securing systems & navigating AI governance.
Navy Vet | Cybersecurity Manager | CEO of AXONLang Labs LLC

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

@IBMResearch

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

IBM Granite 4.2-8B is cooking. 🥞

Meet Pancake Boy Harness: a local AI agent that builds and runs code—with .AXON (63/980,429 U.S. provisional patent application number).

Checking tool actions and keeping receipts!

Small model. Real tools. Governance you can watch.

#IBMGranite #LocalAI

[IBM Research @IBMResearch]

Meet Granite 4.2, IBM’s latest family of open models purpose-built for enterprise agentic AI.

With new native reasoning capabilities, Granite 4.2 can plan, reason, self-correct and reliably use tools to help automate complex enterprise workflows

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[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

@IBMResearch I just found out about it today. I read up on how you guys trained the model. Much respect!

Building a custom harness for the granite-4.2-8b-bf16.gguf model.

[David Ondrej @DavidOndrej1]

nobody trusts this benchmark anymore

[Alex @The_Alex]

Tell Astra to open Microsoft Paint and try to draw you

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

@The_Alex AGI is here!

[IBM @IBM]

https://t.co/OcAQrAvt47

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

I was just exploring a bunch of small local models that never get mentioned and I just found out about IBM-Granite 4.2-8b...

Time to test and build a local harness around it. Remember seeing the iconic IBM phones and computers when I was a kid.

Going to make the harness look like a 80s/90s NYC office. 😂

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

GPT 5.6 Sol

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

Gemini 3.8 flash

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

Gemini 3.8 flash

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

@irvinxyz Call me the ancient of days Christmas past of new year!

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Astra is BEHIND MUSE SPARK 1.3 MAX ON ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS???

I was starting to get skeptical of their intelligence index, but there's no way I can trust this anymore

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

@thsottiaux How much did Anthropic pay Artificial Analysis?

[Kyle Hessling @KyleHessling1]

Everyone running local AI today:

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

I’d rather companies build robots that look like they were thrown together by a tornado in a junkyard—cheap to make in America, easy to replace, and good enough to get the job done—than produce overpriced hardware trapped in simulations because it's too expensive to break.

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

My company's harness for Qwen 3.8-27B, Muse Glimmer 30B and Gemma 4:31B.

Local Laptop LLM

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

Testing out Gemini 3.8 flash in Antigravity.

[Daniel @MARCUS_42ND]

@uttam_singhk Isn't everywhere a tech hub now due to AI?