Birger Lie

Nrd, cdr, ntrpnr, maker of digital things

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Meet Gemma 4: our new family of open models you can run on your own hardware.

Built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, we’re releasing them under an Apache 2.0 license. Here’s what’s new 🧵

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@AlexFinn They are preparing for M5 Mac Studio….?

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@AlfieJCarter CLAUDE

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

🚀 Introducing the Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series
Qwen3.5-Flash · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B · Qwen3.5-122B-A10B · Qwen3.5-27B

✨ More intelligence, less compute.
• Qwen3.5-35B-A3B now surpasses Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 and Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B — a reminder that better architecture, data quality, and RL can move intelligence forward, not just bigger parameter counts.

• Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and 27B continue narrowing the gap between medium-sized and frontier models — especially in more complex agent scenarios.

• Qwen3.5-Flash is the hosted production version aligned with 35B-A3B, featuring:
– 1M context length by default
– Official built-in tools

🔗 Hugging Face: https://t.co/wFMdX5pDjU

🔗 ModelScope: https://t.co/9NGXcIdCWI

🔗 Qwen3.5-Flash API: https://t.co/82ESSpaqAF

Try in Qwen Chat 👇
Flash: https://t.co/UkTL3JZxIK

27B: https://t.co/haKxG4lETy

35B-A3B: https://t.co/Oc1lYSTbwh

122B-A10B: https://t.co/hBMODXmh1o

Would love to hear what you build with it.

[Chaz Wargnier ☄️ @DataChaz]

NVIDIA just removed one of the biggest friction points in Voice AI.

PersonaPlex-7B is an open-source, full-duplex conversational model.

Free, open source (MIT), with open model weights on @huggingface 🤗

Links to repo and weights in 🧵↓

The traditional ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline forces rigid turn-taking.
It’s efficient, but it never feels natural.

PersonaPlex-7B changes that.

This @nvidia model can listen and speak at the same time.

It runs directly on continuous audio tokens with a dual-stream transformer, generating text and audio in parallel instead of passing control between components.

That unlocks:
→ instant back-channel responses
→ interruptions that feel human
→ real conversational rhythm

Persona control is fully zero-shot!

If you’re building low-latency assistants or support agents, this is a big step forward 🔥

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

This is the DeepSeek moment for Voice AI.

Chatterbox Turbo is an MIT-licensed voice model that beats ElevenLabs Turbo & Cartesia Sonic 3!

- <150ms time-to-first-sound
- Voice cloning from just 5-second audio
- Paralinguistic tags for real human expression

100% open-source.

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

The latest MLX is out!

And it has a new distributed back-end (JACCL) that uses RDMA over TB5 for super low-latency communication across multiple Macs.

Thanks to @angeloskath

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@atveit i guess personal LLM is where we are going?
https://t.co/42LqBcLSwL

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

Ring ring Møller på Billingstad - fint om dere tar telefonen etter røykepausen

#møllerbil #vw

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@drskavlan Stakkars de rike assa

[Dmitry Kan @DmitryKan]

@jobergum Chief Cloud Cost Estimation Scientist -- this is a science 😁

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JuicyCreativ3 Old people don’t change their minds, with rare exception, they just die. Without death, there would not be change.

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@malemi @TheEconomist We are all so frightened by this thug bully - it’s such a shame the no one stands up to him

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@ProductHunt marathon, not sprint. Enjoy the journey

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@SimoneGiertz Would love to help in any way

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@SimoneGiertz If you’re actually going. Would it be possible to have something else than my name on the shirt?

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

Finally, the morning commute is packed

[Simone Giertz @SimoneGiertz]

I’M TRYING TO GO TO SPACE & you can help me get there!

If you retweet this video, I’ll print your name on a shirt and wear it in space in your honor ☄️

#inspiration4contest #sendsimonetospace
https://t.co/SvPEQzHmYK

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

My Bitcoin price target is $238,855. I arrived at this price target by googling the distance between the earth and the moon and converting it from miles to dollars.

[Birger Lie @birgerlie]

@intothemild its just like fake news - fake lives