Every Engram story collected by The AI Daily, 2 so far, newest first, refreshed hourly.
Thoughtful Things launches AI sampler EngramMusic startup Thoughtful Things launched a Kickstarter campaign for Engram, its first instrument, a sampler and groovebox that uses a local "tiny AI" to mangle incoming audio and hallucinate new sounds. It stays offline and targets experimental music rather than push-button song generation.
Local LLM community glimpses a golden eraA Reddit post says hardware shortages have pushed the local LLM community back into low-level optimization: forks of llama.cpp and Strix Halo's halogen-flash-server boosted Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (Q38FN) to about 52 tok/s decode and 1300 tok/s prefill. The author argues scarcity spurs learning and technical growth.
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