The developer behind free, open-source alternatives to Adobe software is now taking on Microsoft Office.
Brandon Thomas, the creator of the ArtCraft project, has unveiled three more tools designed to replicate Microsoft’s most popular apps:
>WordCraft – an alternative to Microsoft Word.
>GridCraft – an alternative to Microsoft Excel.
>DeckCraft – an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint.
he wants to give people free alternatives to expensive software subscriptions using AI
And he’s not stopping at Microsoft and Adobe. Autodesk alternatives and other subscription-based software could also be part of the plan.
I have a specific role while working on this anime
Received permission to post some of my genga for episode 2 of "Even The Student Council Has Holes!"
#アニメ生穴る#せいちょかい
"I don't have a GPU" is officially dead 🤯
You can now run 70B model on a single 4GB GPU and it even scales up to the colossal Llama 3.1 405B on just 8GB of VRAM.
AirLLM uses "Layer-wise Inference." Instead of loading the whole model, it loads, computes, and flushes one layer at a time
→ No quantization needed by default
→ Supports Llama, Qwen, and Mistral
→ Works on Linux, Windows, and macOS
100% Open Source.
🚨 VALVE JUST MADE WINDOWS GAMES EVEN EASIER TO RUN ON STEAMOS + LINUX! 🐧🔥
The latest Steam Client Beta now automatically uses PROTON for Windows executables added as non Steam games!
• Windows EXEs added to Steam now use Proton BY DEFAULT
• No need to manually enable compatibility first
• Makes adding Windows games outside of Steam much easier
• Particularly useful for Steam Deck + SteamOS
• Proton translates Windows games to run on Linux
• You can still change the compatibility tool manually
• Fixes non Steam games failing after changing their target EXE
• Fixes Steam’s Stop button with externally launched games
• Linux controller reordering received a fix
• Currently available in the Steam Preview/Beta channel
This remove a unnecessary step between installing a Windows game and actually PLAYING IT on Linux.
I MADE IT!
I beat Adobe and shipped a better relight feature than them. (theirs is not even released yet).
A multibillion-dollar company with thousands of engineers just got beat by one person.
Crazy thing is that https://t.co/s8rpanKqsP runs in your browser locally for Free 🤯
Let's kill Adobe one feature at a time.
Stay tuned, I'm working on a desktop version of ImageFlow and a new LightRoom alternative that i'm so excited about!
Microsoft just changed the game 🤯
They've open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework.
It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs.
- 6.17x faster inference
- 82.2% less energy on CPUs
100% Open Source.
כומר הציע לי את "הספר הזה".
הספר הזה עזר לי להפוך ליהודי טוב יותר, פתח בפניי את עולם הרוחניות וחשף לי עומקים שלא הכרתי קודם. הוא תופס בצורה מושלמת את מהות התורה – את הנשמה, את הלב ואת הדרך.
I just realized something
If Adobe goes to court with these guys and wins, that sets the precedent that Intellectual Property is copyright protected from AI
So either Adobe gets destroyed by this knock off, or they go to court and destroy AI exploitation of other people's IP
AI is now being used to recreate Adobe’s software, a developer has released seven free, open-source apps as clean-room alternatives to Adobe’s main tools:
- PhotoCraft → Photoshop
- VectorCraft → Illustrator
- FilmCraft → Premiere Pro
- LightCraft → Lightroom
- EffectCraft → After Effects
- DesignCraft → InDesign
- PrintCraft → Acrobat Pro
Built in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5, they run on Windows, Linux, and macOS under MIT/Apache licenses without using Adobe’s source code.