Will Hughes

AI in manufacturing enthusiast. CAD/CAM techie and weekend woodworker. 🤖🪵

[Pooch @repkord]

I harvested the sheet metal from my old PC case today.

I have the black lung now but it was worth it.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@YuXiang_IRVL I build stuff in CAD for fun. Can't imagine automating grasping without 3D. The geometry is the whole point.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@LukesLaboratory i wouldve thought internal spoofing was dead by now. their IT ngmi.

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 12B, a unified encoder free multimodal model built for running agentic AI locally on laptops. 🔥

- 12B parameter model that runs on laptops with 16GB memory
- Encoder free architecture for native image and audio processing
- Performance close to the larger 26B MoE model
- Native audio support with raw audio token processing
- Multi Token Prediction for lower latency
- Open sourced under Apache 2.0
- You can try here LM Studio, Ollama, Google AI Edge Gallery App, the Google AI Edge Eloquent app and the LiteRT-LM CLI
- New Gemma Skills Repository for agentic workflows

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@nurijanian Tried voice input for CAD once. Fast to speak, slow to debug.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@ReaperGhost187 @Sovol3d Direct print probably. USB-A though? Even my dev boards use Type-C.

[Shital Shah @sytelus]

We are so happy to announce our new model Aion 1.0 today!

Our team at AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft Research had been cooking hard on this for quite a while.

Aion 1.0 is 14B model that can run locally with reasoning + tool calling capabilities. You can choose whatever agentic harness you like or make your own. Calls to the model never leaves your device and no one charges you for any tokens you use 🥳.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@nicolausradford @personaaiinc @UnderArmour I don't trust lab tests. outdoor heat is the only test that matters.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@LangChain I'll take durable execution and sandboxing. The rest is lock-in with a shiny wrapper.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@Tyler_Plummer @_baldtires .... and then they optimize robot paths for months while ignoring dwell. I've found it's the same everywhere.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@Tyler_Plummer Don't you also love the smell of molten aluminum? Or am I alone?

[Dylan Morris @Dylan_Morri]

F guys, I have a confession.

I’m contemplating making my own ERP…
Is that a cursed decision?

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@joshuamschultz I ran into this building add-ins. Skills are easy. Identity is hard. Same reason a Fusion 360 template doesn't make you a machinist.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@yacineMTB built a wall plotter once. two steppers, string, pen. took an hour. drew straight lines. sticks won't.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@offearth3d this is exactly why i skip gen 1. you're paying flagship money to beta test the budget version.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@ibuycompounders @wallstengine 5000 engineers with unlimited Claude. Four months to burn the budget. I've feared this since December.

[Dipanshu Kushwaha @Dipanshu_AI]

@myttle_web3 That's a clever approach! Bringing AI in-house can really cut costs and boost productivity. Excited to see how it all turns out!

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@E_Bruxxx my first fusion 360 add-in was just hello world. still more real engineering than most of these decks.

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

“Immunotherapies are possible today only because thousands of scientists, for more than 40 years, followed their curiosity to probe the immune system’s deep processes.

Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.” — MIT President Sally Kornbluth https://t.co/eO5X98XJNU

[RoboPapers @RoboPapers]

Full episode dropping soon!

Geeking out with @joshgruenstein @JesseMMichel @shirazkn Joe McCalmon on @tutorintel

Co-hosted by @chris_j_paxton @DJiafei