Life At The Edge - Asad Khaliq

kept by eddie feb 09

Computing advances in fractals of concentration and diffusion; AI inference is now diffusing to edge devices, but cloud models remain essential for peak capability.

The Geopolitics of Open Weights
Open-weight models like Kimi K3 are eroding frontier labs' margins, but other AI layers may benefit long-term, while China's push for open source reshapes the global AI value chain.
also on Gavin Baker, #ai
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Economists argue that after AGI, scarcity may shift to human-relational services, but the labor share's fate depends on whether new capital varieties prevent satiation.
also on Epoch, #ai
OpenAI Codex Review 2026 — Updated from Daily Use
After a year of daily use, OpenAI Codex has become a reliably indispensable tool for production development, handling 85-90% of well-scoped maintenance tasks.
also on Granola, Claude Code, #user-experience
Amical launches open-source, privacy-focused AI dictation app
Amical is a local-first, MIT-licensed dictation app that uses Whisper and open-source LLMs for privacy-preserving, context-aware speech-to-text on Mac and Windows.
also on Granola, Claude Code, #ai
Run AI Models Locally: A New Laptop Era Begins - IEEE Spectrum
The push to run AI models locally is driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades, with new NPUs, unified memory, and Microsoft's AI Foundry.
also on Microsoft, Apple, #hardware, #consumer-technology, #ai