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How high can a humanoid robot jump? The 2026 record
In 2026 one humanoid robot rose 3.40 m off the floor with no bar, and another jumped 4.83 m from a standing start, beyond any human.
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How fast can a humanoid robot run? The 2026 record
In 2026 a humanoid robot won a 100m final in 8.64 seconds, nearly twice the fastest speed any maker lists on a humanoid spec sheet.
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What Anthropic’s usage data actually holds
We opened the 86 files behind the Economic Index. One row is a metric value, never a chat.
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Why does a model forget what you told it?
Continual learning, and why no deployed model has it yet.
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No model card states the compute threshold
The EU AI Act draws its line at 10^25 operations, California and New York at 10^26. Three open-weights cards, none says.
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Autonomous robots won most of the job events
Hotels, libraries and factories at the World Humanoid Robot Games: by our count, autonomous robots took 13 of the 21 finals.
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What the 1X NEO home robot sends, in 1X’s words
The FAQ says what leaves the house and when a 1X Expert can see in. The privacy policy never mentions the robot.
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A humanoid robot costs from $4,900
Unitree's R1 from $4,900, G1 from $13,500, H2 at $29,900; 1X NEO at $20,000 or $499 a month to rent, from the list prices.
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Skills add knowledge, MCP adds hands
A skill is files on disk; an MCP server is tools over a protocol. The specs, the context cost, and the servers we run.
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Speculative decoding and MTP are one trick in two places
A separate draft model or draft layers inside the model. The llama.cpp flags and the acceptance rates we measured on two Qwen models.
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How a 27B plays past its own context window
The winning ARC-AGI-3 harness drops old turns, keeps facts in Python and keeps going. Infinite play by eviction, read from the code.
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Five APIs count reasoning tokens five ways
LM Studio, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and OpenRouter all bill them as output and name, place and cap them differently. One client reads all five.
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ARC-AGI-3 is not saturated
Three numbers circulate as a solved benchmark and only one compares systems. Which set, which harness, and what each cost.
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Eight Mac minis can run a 671B model
exo pools Apple Silicon machines into one, so a cluster holds DeepSeek 671B that no single Mac can.
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Is the M5 Max worth it for local inference?
Memory bandwidth, unified memory ceilings and time to first token against our 48 GB M4 Pro, and whether the upgrade earns its price today.
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What to run locally and what to send out
A decision guide for 2026: the compliance and cost lines that decide it, with a bank's chatbot as the test case.
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Gemma 4 E4B makes 8 GB of memory useful
What a small model now does on edge hardware, where it fails, and when it beats reaching for a bigger one.
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NVFP4 or q4_K_M in Ollama?
The two 4-bit builds are nearly the same size on disk. What the newer format changes for quality and speed, and which to pull.
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Gemma 4 31B or Qwen 3.5 27B on a Mac?
Which fits, which is faster, and which answers better when a Mac holds one large model at a time.
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MLX, llama.cpp or MetalRT on Apple Silicon?
One quantised model, three engines, one Mac: generation speed, memory and setup, measured rather than argued about.
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LM Studio or Ollama on a Mac?
Setup, speed, model management and the API each exposes, plus which we kept on our own machine and why.
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What Ollama’s move to MLX changes
Speed, memory and model choice on Apple Silicon, and whether it changes what you should run now.
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Open WebUI or Jan for a private ChatGPT?
A feature-rich browser workspace or a double-click desktop app. We picked one.
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Do you need an agent framework?
smolagents and the alternatives, and why most of the noise sells a layer you can skip.
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The best local model is the one that fits
Not the biggest: the model that leaves headroom in your RAM and matches the job you do every day.
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OpenCode, Pi or Cursor?
Three coding agents, three bets on where you work and where your code goes, without the marketing.
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Why Nemotron beats DeepSeek inside OpenCode
DeepSeek scores higher on coding benchmarks; Nemotron is still the daily driver, and the leaderboard does not say why.
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