eplt tech blog
Notes and analysis on AI models, tools, and impacts.
What Has Changed (And Why You Should Care) If you’ve been using chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for basic questions and answers, you’re only scratching the surface of what…
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adashttps://fortune.com/2026/02/18/tesla-robotaxi-safety-concerns-crashes-elon-musk-big-bet/ Automobile grade Lidar price dropping fast, aiming at sub-$200 range soon. Will Elon Musk admit that he was wrong and start having Lidar in all cars and robots? Or…
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/buildiing-c-compiiler Why this AI breakthrough is a massive productivity booster for devs, not a replacement. If you’ve been online this week, you’ve probably seen the headlines: Anthropic’s new Opus 4.6…
“In the old days, many decisions were simply based on some mixture of experience and intuition. Experts were ordained because of their decades of individual trial-and-error experience.” — Ian Ayres, Super…
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/alphabet-resets-the-bar-for-ai-infrastructure-spending.html Google is planning to spend between $175 billion and $185 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, with the vast majority going toward AI infrastructure. For context, Meta expects to…
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/salesforce-stock-gets-a-brutal-reality-check-amid-software-slump The company that mocked Oracle is now worth less than most leading AI startups. Who’s laughing now? A few years ago, Salesforce was the cloud darling that mocked Oracle…
Run two local AI runtimes behind a single secure reverse proxy with separate authentication Running Ollama or Swama locally is straightforward: start the server and connect via localhost. But if…
The reason is simple: because you can — and even faster now. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with 16GB of RAM or more, you can run powerful LLMs…
Google needed this deal far more than Apple. By embedding Gemini into 1.5 billion iPhones, Google secured its relevance as traditional search faces obsolescence in the AI era.
Unlock 2-3x faster AI on Apple Silicon! This post explores optimizing models with Ollama and MLX, boosting performance for demanding applications.
https://exolabs.nethttps://github.com/exo-explore/exohttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5 If you have about 40-50k USD for 4 Mac Studio with 512GB RAM each, you can run your full DeekSeek at 32.5 t/s. Probably the cheapest way to do…
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/google-gemini-vs-chatgpt-cloudflare-ai-b2881240.htmlhttps://x.com/Similarweb/status/1942838749588775302 Gemini is growing fast. Back to the “Just Google It” days soon. Now waiting for Meta to find a way to make AI relevant or useful in social. Same…