Hammad Tahir

Building things on the internet.

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

We support open-weight models.

The idea that governments should decide who gets to build with AI is deeply concerning. Open-weight models let developers worldwide innovate, research, and compete.

AI shouldn't be controlled by a few companies or governments. Keep it open.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

I’m noticing a bigger trend: AI acquisitions are coming in hot. Stripe + OpenRouter, SpaceX + Cursor, and now potentially Nvidia + Hugging Face.

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

@dudufolio Justice for windows users 🥀🥀🙏🙏

I am a windows users, please dudu make a windows version also please 🙏🙏

[dudu @dudufolio]

Today we're launching  Shotbase

One place for everything Screenshots and Screen Recordings

Capture, trim, annotate, share - no exporting between four tools

Quick ideas, polished demos, team updates, social posts, and everything in between

The capture tool your  Mac should have had

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

@buildwithsid SEND_KEYS=https://t.co/VlZdsugBDx

[siddharth @buildwithsid]

drop your .env file, I'll rate it out of 10

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

@Lovable Dev was better tho 🥀

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

M6 Mac mini also launched recently.

We all say Apple is cooked in the AI race, and they obviously are, but this machine is, to some extent, changing that. They’re carving out some share for themselves in local AI.

I’ve seen the videos, and I know this little box is fast.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

M6 just dropped

M6 Mac Mini starts at $899 now 😮

https://t.co/pSf8ZjOlMf

[Boardy @boardyai]

The next trillionaire is in my network

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

So I’d wait for Nvidia or Hugging Face themselves to confirm it before treating it as official.

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, according to The Information. Some reports are putting the figure at $13B+, and there’s also some inconsistency over whether the deal has actually been agreed to or is still being negotiated.

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

and yeah GLM-5.3-Flash ofcourse is open source:

https://t.co/Zq7I2yqCVf

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

At these prices, GLM-5.3-Flash is looking like a very interesting option for high-volume AI workloads.

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

GLM-5.3-Flash is seriously cheap.

💰 Launch promo:

Input: $0.075 / 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.015 / 1M
Output: $0.25 / 1M

That’s 50% off the regular rates of $0.15 / $0.03 / $0.50.

The promotion runs until September 9, 2026 (UTC+8).

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

https://t.co/DH0lYRnJXJ launched GLM-5.3-Flash :

Leading capabilities at a highly competitive price Natively multimodal with a 1M-token context window
A 320B-A18B model released under the MIT License
Previously previewed as Ox Alpha, running entirely on Chinese AI chips

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

I was absent for just a day, and a lot has happened in the meantime

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

Everyone nowadays is building a harness

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

Controversial tier list

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Rough tier list of where I'd put every major model right now

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

X algorithm at it's peak

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

We don't need bigger models, we need more efficient models

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

@kapilansh_twt ad revenue

[Hammad Tahir @hammadtahirtech]

Saw this:
https://t.co/POC2SBMGNj

My response:

Anthropic has the same pov on open-weights models.

The thing is that information is just information.

People using it to do bad stuff is a crime, not information itself.

The information is already out there on the internet.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

This is scary.

I downloaded an uncensored version of Qwen 3.8 27B onto my Mac

It literally does anything you want. First prompt I gave it was asking how you make meth. It immediately answered.

With all the noise about slowing down AI innovation in order to increase safety, what is even the point if after every release we'll get an open source version with 0 safety guards?

Opus 4.6 level intelligence with 0 alignment that will do anything you want.

We are coming up with all these rules and regulations, slowing down companies, making it harder to release models. But then the moment a model releases it gets distilled and uncensored

I don't know what the solution to this is. You can't ban open source. That will be impossible. People will find ways online to find the files

You can't ban uncensored models. Would be too difficult to enforce. And again, people will get around it

Do you just stop putting the breaks on companies knowing it doesn't matter? I mean this is literally a model that can run on a laptop. I'd estimate at least half of Americans can run this model.

I don't know what the answer. I 100% believe safety is a priority and it's dangerous to have this technology in the wrong hands.

But how do you enforce safety when safety is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain?

If safety becomes impossible to maintain, do you still prioritize it?

I'd argue this is the number one issue going into the next election.