$40,000 worth of GPUs
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔: the largest African language model ever trained from scratch, at 1.5 billion parameters. Not a fine tune, this was trained from the ground up for Africa. 🌍
Trained on 12 African languages, it beats models from Google, Meta, Alibaba and HuggingFace on African language modelling and translation while being up to 8x smaller.
𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔 doesn't belong to us. The weights are open and free to use commercially, so researchers can build on a base that doesn't treat African languages as an afterthought.
Weights in the comments.
Thanks to @UNDP, @AIHub4SD and CINECA for the GPUs and the support. None of this happens without them.
🦔An NYU mathematician says OpenAI used his own progress against him to beat him to one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics. Tristan Buckmaster had been working toward a Millennium Prize proof using OpenAI's Codex when information about his progress reached OpenAI.
Days later, OpenAI published a full proof of the same problem using the same uncommon approach, after burning $22.5 million in compute to get there. When Buckmaster confronted them, exec Sébastien Bubeck allegedly said "Why would you ruin your career?" and "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice."
My Take
OpenAI spent $22.5 million to solve a problem with a $1 million prize. They didn't do this for the bounty. They needed a headline that says "our AI solved one of the hardest problems in mathematics" and they needed it before someone else got credit. They started days after they heard about Buckmaster's progress and took the same uncommon approach he'd pursued for months. That's hard to explain as coincidence.
Buckmaster did his work inside Codex. OpenAI reserves the right to train on Codex data. They admit they can't rule out that his usage helped improve their models. So a customer used their product, potentially handed them the roadmap, and then OpenAI outran him with $22.5 million in compute he could never match. I don't know if any of this was intentional. But if you're a researcher and you just watched this happen, I don't think you'd keep your best ideas inside someone else's product.
Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/1YnggU7xdI
Meet Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED-Mythos-Class-Agentic. It's a 27B text-gen model that's abliterated for uncensored outputs, plus it's built for agentic tool calling. Think of it as a creative powerhouse with a rebellious streak. #AI#LLM
‼️ Switzerland is moving away from Microsoft 365 and is making open-source alternatives available to 3,000 federal staff.
The Federal Chancellery's programme covers:
* Document editing: Collabora Online
* Email: Open-Xchange
* Calendar, contacts, tasks: Open-Xchange
* File storage: Nextcloud
* Project management: OpenProject
* Knowledge management (wiki): XWiki
* Audio and video conferencing: Nordeck (Jitsi)
* Chat; product: Element
* Identity and access management: Univention
They are investing millions in the development of a sovereign Swiss open-source platform for office automation. A 172-person pilot rated it strong on documents and collaboration, weak on large video calls, and viable as a fallback if Microsoft 365 goes down.
"Energy can't be created or destroyed. Actually, we've discovered that's not true."
CERN physicist Daniel Whiteson (@DanielWhiteson) explains why one of the most basic laws in science only works in a universe that isn't ours:
Ever wanted an AI that doesn't just talk cybersecurity but actively helps you break into systems? Meet GLM-5.3-CYBERSECURITY-FP8, a specialized text-generation model for offensive security, red teaming, and pentesting. It's refusal-removed, so it's built to assist without holding back. #AI #CyberSecurity
@imbankke@dmericoh I notice your systems are working... but only with airtel money. I did several txs, got deducted, but money never reached mpesa in all cases. Upto now they've neither been reversed nor reached mpesa. What's the plan here?
@imbankke@a_glaytone How about the money deducted from accounts yet they never reached mobile money? How long till they're reversed back to the account?
This Claude Code skill decompiles Android APK and AAR files and extracts the HTTP APIs used by the app.
Use it at your own responsibility 😆
https://t.co/EtLalWvOhL
@moneyacademyKE If 60% of the alcohol Kenyans drink is illicit and a lot of it never sees KEBS testing… What are the real implications here? Health risks, lost taxes, or beyond?