AI
Everything we publish on AI: the models we run on our own machines, what the tools send home, the benchmarks we measure ourselves and the claims we check against the code. Start with the investigations, then the guides.
benchmarksWhy your local model stops at exactly 8,192 tokens
Twelve of thirty six local model runs stopped at exactly 8,192 tokens with a 16,384 cap. The LM Studio context…
agentsThe two Gemma 4 31B entries: how Reki and forge play ARC-AGI-3
Second and third in the ARC-AGI-3 milestone both ran Gemma 4 31B on vLLM: four frames at eight times scale,…
agentsInfinite play by eviction: how a 27B plays past its context window
Infinite play by eviction: how the winning ARC-AGI-3 harness keeps a 27B model playing past a 64K context by dropping…
agentsThe Duck harness, read line by line: how a 27B won an ARC-AGI-3 milestone
The Duck harness won the first ARC-AGI-3 milestone with a 27B model and a Python REPL, scoring 1.21% official and…
agentsTwo agents on one LM Studio endpoint: what concurrent requests cost
Two identical LM Studio concurrent requests to a 31B on a 48 GB Mac: each ran at half speed and…
agentsA REPL agent in its smallest form: one model call writes the player
A REPL agent in its smallest form: one local model call wrote a 44 line policy that played 60,000 ARC-AGI-3…
Gemma 4Image vs text for a local vision model: one board, two costs
Image vs text for a local vision model, measured: the same 64x64 board cost 4,179 prompt tokens as hex and…
agentsA local model agent on one ARC-AGI-3 level: 40 moves, 230 minutes, nothing
A local model agent played 40 moves of one ARC-AGI-3 level in 230 minutes, 154,673 reasoning tokens, and cleared nothing.…
Apple SiliconARC-AGI-3 on a Mac: what a 48 GB M4 Pro can and cannot do
ARC-AGI-3 on a Mac, measured on a 48 GB M4 Pro: the toolkit does 4,000 actions a second, a 31B…
arc prizeEnter ARC Prize 2026 with a local model: the Kaggle track, from a Mac
ARC Prize 2026 pays $700,000 for 100 percent; its first milestone went to local open weight models. The prizes, the…