Agaram 2.5B is out. It's a Tamil-first language model we trained from scratch at @MuraiLabsHQ , our small non-profit lab. As far as we know, it's the first Tamil model trained from scratch that can call tools.
It chats in Tamil, Tanglish and English, translates, and can call tools. We're releasing the base model, chat model and GGUF files under Apache-2.0. You can download it and run it offline on your own laptop.
The first chat model had a four-day public preview. Seeing where it fell short with real users helped us decide what to work on. We rebuilt the fine-tuning around what we saw, using 222,662 records.
Thank you to everyone who spent time with that early version.
The video walks through the model. You can try it here:
https://t.co/1CrOClu6Mn
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I think many of us working in tech tend to forget that the reason software engineering vs other engineering fields pays (a lot!) more, is a lot more flexible (WFH/remote), and has better perks:
Because this field changes much faster than other engineering fields. The premium is because fewer people are able/willing to pick up new technologies, methodologies so quickly.
But the field had ~10-20 years of stability, and so lots of folks forgot this is why a premium exists. And that AI is just another tech wave: software engineers who pick it up and master it will generally fare better; those not will struggle a lot more.
Vibe coded my parents' TV this afternoon!
It was showing a sponsored ad before you could even get to Netflix.
Gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on wifi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new launcher.
Looks like an Apple TV now lol
My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it
Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do
i'm still not sure people are fully getting how good opus 5.5
i gave my claude agent fig access to the runway MCP and told it to make a 'high-end netflix style documentary about superintelligence for normies' and...
it came back with this
It supports both the on-device model and Private Cloud Compute! We built it to enable effortless automations for Mac users. It's free, zero setup, no privacy compromises.
This plant is called Four O'Clock, as they flower in the evening typically around 5:30pm. I used this uniqueness to record multiple timelapses to capture their glorious flowering over a month.
Needless to say, there were so many failed attempts and what you see above is only 10% of the footage!
Given a large number of shots. I was looking for ways to keep it engaging and Thalam trip from @anirudhofficial provided the right sync!
And, this is not AI 😁
Is there a technical term for this situation?
Reddit -> Frontier labs -> Results in chats grounded on human observations -> Reddit users using it to create content -> Frontier labs ...
@oligoglot#TIL the term "Habsburg AI", where AI models are trained on data generated by other models and output becomes progressively less diverse. Cyclic co-curation comes closer.
My recently learnt Mac OS shortcut key is Cmd + Shift + G. While attaching a file, this opens a dialog box where you can type a file path (like /Users/yourname/Documents/x.png) to jump directly to that folder or file.