edge devices
Coverage of edge devices in the Nexus archive.
- Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
General Instinct, a robotics-focused company, addresses the challenge of deploying high-performance AI models on edge hardware by compressing a 245 GB BF16 MoE model (Qwen3.5-122B-A10B) into a 48 GiB GGUF format. Their method preserves critical components while aggressively quantizing routed experts and uses on-policy distillation to recover lost capability. The open-source tool InstinctRazor and a blog post detail their approach.
- Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table
Intel is investing heavily in AI inference and agentic workloads to revive the CPU's relevance in computing, despite ongoing challenges in chip manufacturing. The company aims to leverage AI-driven applications like robots and edge devices to reposition CPUs as central to next-generation compute.