A New Model for Intelligence.
The next era of AI won't come from a single system in the cloud, but from a civilization of models owned by the people closest to the problem.
"Any time you centralize power, data, and now artificial intelligence, you create an acute threat for our adversaries."
Our President of Public Sector Jason Rathje was on @CNN This Morning talking about AI data centers, the strain they're putting on communities, and what a real alternative looks like.
AI data centers bring environmental & security concerns.
Jason Rathje, president of public sector, @thewebAI and former director, DoD Office of Strategic Capital: Anytime you centralize power, data, and now artificial intelligence, you create an acute threat for our adversaries."
Intelligence is getting smaller.
Our CEO @Davidstout was featured in @theinformation on why the data center boom is a mistake and where AI is actually headed.
"Data centers won't disappear, but the majority of work will happen at the edge. Apple made the bet correctly there."
Read the full article: https://t.co/OBtUsmsJL7
"Any time you centralize power, data, and now artificial intelligence, you create an acute threat for our adversaries."
Our President of Public Sector Jason Rathje was on @CNN This Morning talking about AI data centers, the strain they're putting on communities, and what a real alternative looks like.
HUGE thanks to every builder who shipped. Already planning the next one.
Join our community to get in on the next challenge: https://t.co/v4rFzMQaPh
#YOLOMLX
Full demos and write-ups for each winner coming over the next week. Stay tuned.
Big shoutout to our co-hosts HackAI, AITX, and Antler for hosting our kickoff events in Austin. Couldn't have pulled it off without them.
Our YOLO26 MLX Build Challenge kicked off this week.
Thanks to our co-hosts HackAI, AITX, and Antler for hosting us in Austin.
7 days. 4 tracks. $4,000 in prizes. Open to anyone in the US.
Submissions due Sunday May 24.
Full brief and how to enter: https://t.co/iFbuD90fip
Side Quest: building/testing a Swift + MLX iOS implementation for the @Webai YOLO26 MLX Challenge
iPhone 16 Pro Max live test:
- Live camera tracking overlays✅
- Still-image object detection✅
- On-device inference✅
- Early physical-device validation✅
Write-up coming soon
Our first open source build challenge starts Monday.
7 days. 4 tracks. $4K in prizes. Build something with YOLO26 MLX, our open source object detection model built for Apple Silicon.
Two kickoff events in Austin:
🗓 Mon 5/18 with Hack AI (Capital Factory): https://t.co/xn6ePuFRZ1
🗓 Tue 5/19 with @aitxcommunity + @AntlerGlobal: https://t.co/zbXQHMmAT1
Full brief and how to join: https://t.co/h7mUwFyxq9
Our President of Public Sector, Jason Rathje, was on CNBC's Morning Call this morning talking about the US/China AI arms race and what it's going to take for America to stay ahead.
He made the point that distributed AI and reducing dependence on centralized cloud infrastructure is not just a technical decision. It is a national security one.
Watch the full segment on CNBC: https://t.co/YkJHhusYmP
Jason Rathje, President of Public Sector at @thewebAI, says the U.S. must develop distributed AI systems and reduce reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure as competition with China intensifies.
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9/ That approach earned two of the top three spots on ViDoRe V3: heterogeneous data, targeted rebalancing, efficient adaptation, and an objective built for ranking quality.
We're open sourcing both models so anyone can build with them.
Blog: https://t.co/61gS7YUvFx
Try both models on Hugging Face:
ColVec1-9B: https://t.co/QQPSwuZgn0
ColVec1-4B: https://t.co/qVwYzXhz5D
8/ The loss function is proprietary.
But the principle: force the model to create cleaner separation between the correct page and every competing page in the batch. Better embedding geometry. Cleaner ranking.
Especially important when pages look semantically similar.