IST Austria quantizes DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to run on a 12 GB GPU

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🗞 What Else Happened Today — October 25 AI, tech and games: stories that didn't make the feed 🧠 AI ▪️ Apollo economist says AI has paid off for almost no one outside tech Apollo's economist says AI has brought zero financial payoff to companies outside tech, despite massive spending. The hype is still doing most of the work. ▪️ r/opensource bans AI projects and non-English posts The r/opensource mods changed the submission rules. Projects that use AI, are made by AI or are meant for AI are no longer welcome. ▪️ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now runs on a 12 GB GPU Researchers at IST Austria made a quantized version of the 763-billion-parameter model. It runs locally on a card with 12 GB of VRAM. ▪️ A 10-year-old CNN beats frontier LLMs at skin cancer diagnosis A decade-old convolutional network outperformed the newest frontier LLMs on skin cancer diagnosis. The biggest model isn't always the best tool. ▪️ Cerebras explains how it runs trillion-parameter models Cerebras published how it deploys trillion-parameter frontier models on its systems. Models that size are getting closer to everyday use. ▪️ Grok drops the first seven minutes of its AI-made Odyssey Grok released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated Odyssey. The footage looks okay, but there's no artistry or human interest in it. 💻 Tech ▪️ China's CXMT turns down Apple memory supply CXMT, a Chinese RAM maker, is walking away from foreign contracts, Apple included. The goal is less reliance on Samsung and SK hynix. ▪️ iFixit gives the iPhone Duo a 5/10 repairability score The teardown shows how Apple hides the crease on the folding screen. The 5 out of 10 score could explain the broken screens and hinges people report. ▪️ Claude and ChatGPT tighten limits on cloning software and games AI coding tools have become mass tools for building software. OpenAI and Anthropic are adding barriers against copying other people's apps, games included. ▪️ Samsung runs a TensorFlow Lite model on a 960x540 image A post on X claims Samsung uses a TensorFlow Lite model on a 960x540 image to track users. It got over 200 points on Hacker News. 🎮 Games ▪️ Fans push Mass Effect petition past 155,000 signatures EA announced the closure of BioWare and the cancelation of the next Mass Effect. Fans started #SaveMassEffect, and the petition has over 155,000 signatures. ▪️ Modern Warfare 4 gets best Metacritic score in 15 years The new Call of Duty got the highest critic scores in 15 years right after its official launch, going by Metacritic. ▪️ Cyberpunk 2077 hits 162,000+ concurrent Steam players A update tied to the second season of the anime pushed Cyberpunk 2077 to over 162,000 concurrent players on Steam, its best peak in three years. #AI #Tech #Gaming