Meet Qwen-Image-2.1, the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series! Now open weights! 🎨
A unified model for both generation and editing, delivering top-tier quality in a lightweight package.
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- Broad coverage & stunning aesthetics: Excels at panoramas, infographics, and virtual try-ons, delivering realistic textures and elegant typography.
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Jessica and I have been watching Professor T, and it's really good. If, like me, you wish Doyle had written more Sherlock Holmes stories, this may be as close as you're going to get.
I put Omarchy on my 9 year old's laptop (M1 Air 8gb) about two weeks ago.
Now he's working directly with Claude to make games. I am not intervening
Normally on a low key Sunday he'd be playing Minecraft, but right now it's all Omarchy and making games
A sign of what's to come
The reason so many people look for an ulterior motive for the AI labs asking to be regulated is that they don't grasp that models could be dangerous. But if you try assuming models are getting dangerous, or at least unpredictable, everything falls into place.
Linux is so obviously the future
Open source model controlling an open source agent harness working on an open source operating system
If you don't see this you're blind
Moving fast and building safely aren’t at odds.
AI should move as fast as we can, with rigorous testing, monitoring, and safeguards every step of the way.
@JensenHuang on @CBSSunday:
Dear Visitors,
The words of the smiling boy echo through a kingdom buried beneath the shifting sands. Are they lies, or the truth?
Season 44 Essence 2 introduces the new Survivor, "Prodigy", with his Limited S Costume, alongside new A Costumes for Grave Keeper and The Ripper.
Check out in-game on September 30!
It must be so difficult to make sense of the world when you believe money might magically flow to projects run by people who hate capitalism and its prosperity.
So freaking cool! We're running Omarchy ads in the center of Copenhagen on Rådhuspladsen this week. Design by @Dennis_Rye and funded by @sonderby 👏
There's even a billboard generator available if you want to do this in your city:
Omarchy week has started in Copenhagen! Thank you @sonderby for collaborating and helping fund this. And thank you @dhh for letting Peter and I do something crazy. @OmarchyLinux
Bending Spoons self-hosts open-weight models for ~99% of AI requests and tokens, using frontier models for only ~1% of the most complex work or to check the open models, staying fully vendor-neutral while keeping token costs extremely low.
- Luca Ferrari, CEO and co-founder Bending Spoons, a Milan-based Italian tech company
BREAKING: Only ~1% of Bending Spoons’ AI requests & tokens goes to frontier models.
99% runs on self-hosted open-weight models.
CEO Luca Ferrari on the shift to Sovereign AI:
“We end up using open-weight models we self-host, so these are basically free. I mean, there is a little bit of cloud cost, but for 99% of the requests and tokens.”
“And the frontier models, generally closed weight, through APIs for maybe 1% of the requests, only for the most complex tasks.”
“Sometimes we use them automatically to check the work that got done by the slightly less intelligent models, as a more senior engineer would with a more junior engineer.”
Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg with Nas, Steve Stoute, and Grandmaster Caz on the Paid in Full Foundation
Caz penned rhymes that became Rapper's Delight. Even with his name in them, he got nothing.
The Paid in Full foundation honors the people who created hip-hop by making sure they're "paid in full," financially, spiritually, and culturally.
As Nas points out, money alone reads as a handout. So the grant comes attached to the honor. Each year at the foundation's Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards, pioneers are celebrated by the artists they inspired.
Caz ultimately received a five-year grant, bought a house, and left the projects. In his words: "The thing is the honor. The thing is putting you in the light that you deserve to be in."
Ben says he bought Paid in Full (the album) for $10 and got at least $5 million worth of value out of the record, with no way to pay it back.
The vision is paying the debt. Felicia Horowitz runs the foundation. She and Ben are matching donations 2.5 to 1, and every dollar goes to the artists.
paidinfullfoundation.org
0:00 Intro
1:40 The $10 album that was worth $5M to Ben
3:10 Nas: in hip-hop, you can't just give money
5:05 Why artists thought it was a scam
9:30 Caz wrote Rapper's Delight and got nothing
11:40 Roxanne Shanté: "I wanted the right award"
16:35 Dr. Dre asks to meet Kool Moe Dee and Slick Rick
18:50 Why the industry never did this
26:05 Ben: start with what's right, not what's possible
29:10 Inside the room: Grand Puba, George Clinton
32:15 The Quincy Jones Award
37:00 Scarface and Rakim talk writing for the first time
38:45 Caz: the grant got me out of the projects
43:45 What hip-hop did for Adidas, Hilfiger and Sprite
48:00 How Felicia saved Scarface's life
52:10 Quincy Jones stories, and Nas's jazz legend dad
@Nas@SteveStoute@GrandmasterCaz@bhorowitz@eriktorenberg
.@bhorowitz on putting rap lyrics in his book, and the criticism he got for it in Silicon Valley:
"I think in life it's impossible to do anything great if you start with what's possible. You have to start with what's right... It may not be possible, but at least you have a chance to do something great."
"Hip-hop's not that big. The guys who made the art form are not that many, and so why can't we honor them? It didn't make any sense to me."
"You guys were very kind saying I wasn't a beneficiary. I'm a big beneficiary of Caz and Nas and Rakim, in that you all were the inspiration to my career."
"[Their music is] what got me through very, very difficult times in business, so hard that I wrote a best-selling book about how hard it was. And in the book I had the rap lyrics."
"In Silicon Valley, I actually got a lot of criticism for it. 'What are you doing with hip-hop? Is that some kind of gimmick?' And I was like, no, this is credit where credit is due."
"The ideas that I had in business came from those lyrics. That's why the chapters, that's why the idea started with the lyric, because that's where the idea started."
"So [the Paid in Full Foundation] was my chance to, in my mind, just do what was right and pay it back."
@bhorowitz@GrandmasterCaz@Nas
Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg with Nas, Steve Stoute, and Grandmaster Caz on the Paid in Full Foundation
Caz penned rhymes that became Rapper's Delight. Even with his name in them, he got nothing.
The Paid in Full foundation honors the people who created hip-hop by making sure they're "paid in full," financially, spiritually, and culturally.
As Nas points out, money alone reads as a handout. So the grant comes attached to the honor. Each year at the foundation's Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards, pioneers are celebrated by the artists they inspired.
Caz ultimately received a five-year grant, bought a house, and left the projects. In his words: "The thing is the honor. The thing is putting you in the light that you deserve to be in."
Ben says he bought Paid in Full (the album) for $10 and got at least $5 million worth of value out of the record, with no way to pay it back.
The vision is paying the debt. Felicia Horowitz runs the foundation. She and Ben are matching donations 2.5 to 1, and every dollar goes to the artists.
paidinfullfoundation.org
0:00 Intro
1:40 The $10 album that was worth $5M to Ben
3:10 Nas: in hip-hop, you can't just give money
5:05 Why artists thought it was a scam
9:30 Caz wrote Rapper's Delight and got nothing
11:40 Roxanne Shanté: "I wanted the right award"
16:35 Dr. Dre asks to meet Kool Moe Dee and Slick Rick
18:50 Why the industry never did this
26:05 Ben: start with what's right, not what's possible
29:10 Inside the room: Grand Puba, George Clinton
32:15 The Quincy Jones Award
37:00 Scarface and Rakim talk writing for the first time
38:45 Caz: the grant got me out of the projects
43:45 What hip-hop did for Adidas, Hilfiger and Sprite
48:00 How Felicia saved Scarface's life
52:10 Quincy Jones stories, and Nas's jazz legend dad
@Nas@SteveStoute@GrandmasterCaz@bhorowitz@eriktorenberg
There's a lot of new vocabulary popping up in software development these days.
The GitHub Podcast chats about some of the AI terms developers are learning right now.
Grab your headphones 🎧
It became easier for hardware companies to raise money this year partly because investors were afraid AI would eat software. Imagine how excited they'll be if AI makes hardware cheaper and faster to build.
NEVER thought i would hear this from jeff dean
he thinks we can compress chip design from 2 years to 3 months with RL + new EDA tooling
essentially just by a specialized auto research loop for hardware!
My Omarchy theme collection started to get out of hand. So I built an extended Theme Picker plugin with favorites, collections and grid view to make managing them a bit easier.
.@bhorowitz on the $10 album that was worth $5 million to his career, and what @Nas said when he tried to pay it back:
"Paid in Full is an organization meant to honor the legacy of the people who created one of the most important musical art forms of all time, hip-hop, and make sure that they're paid in full financially, spiritually, and culturally."
"It always bothered me that I bought Paid in Full, the album, for $10, and people in tech know this, I probably got at least $5 million worth of value out of that record. But there was no way to pay it back. And it needed to be paid back."
"Steve Stoute said, 'It's not only a good idea, but it's a very timely idea, 'cause people are talking about this right now, but they're not doing anything.'"
"People are saying, 'Oh, these rappers, these old guys, they don't have any money. They're dusty.' And these are very, very important guys. But nobody's doing anything. And so I thought, well, let's do something."
"Quincy Jones had a thing called the Jazz Foundation, where he would get money to the old jazz guys. I told it to Nas, and Nas said, 'That's not gonna work that way in hip-hop, because in hip-hop you can't just give somebody money. It has to be more than that. It has to be a recognition of what they did and who they are.'"
"And so that's when we got the idea of, well, let's have a big awards show, have this idea of the Grandmaster Award for the true greats of hip-hop, and then invite everybody to honor these guys."
@bhorowitz@Nas@SteveStoute
Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg with Nas, Steve Stoute, and Grandmaster Caz on the Paid in Full Foundation
Caz penned rhymes that became Rapper's Delight. Even with his name in them, he got nothing.
The Paid in Full foundation honors the people who created hip-hop by making sure they're "paid in full," financially, spiritually, and culturally.
As Nas points out, money alone reads as a handout. So the grant comes attached to the honor. Each year at the foundation's Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards, pioneers are celebrated by the artists they inspired.
Caz ultimately received a five-year grant, bought a house, and left the projects. In his words: "The thing is the honor. The thing is putting you in the light that you deserve to be in."
Ben says he bought Paid in Full (the album) for $10 and got at least $5 million worth of value out of the record, with no way to pay it back.
The vision is paying the debt. Felicia Horowitz runs the foundation. She and Ben are matching donations 2.5 to 1, and every dollar goes to the artists.
paidinfullfoundation.org
0:00 Intro
1:40 The $10 album that was worth $5M to Ben
3:10 Nas: in hip-hop, you can't just give money
5:05 Why artists thought it was a scam
9:30 Caz wrote Rapper's Delight and got nothing
11:40 Roxanne Shanté: "I wanted the right award"
16:35 Dr. Dre asks to meet Kool Moe Dee and Slick Rick
18:50 Why the industry never did this
26:05 Ben: start with what's right, not what's possible
29:10 Inside the room: Grand Puba, George Clinton
32:15 The Quincy Jones Award
37:00 Scarface and Rakim talk writing for the first time
38:45 Caz: the grant got me out of the projects
43:45 What hip-hop did for Adidas, Hilfiger and Sprite
48:00 How Felicia saved Scarface's life
52:10 Quincy Jones stories, and Nas's jazz legend dad
@Nas@SteveStoute@GrandmasterCaz@bhorowitz@eriktorenberg
When the cost of error is high, trust is everything.
Dan, a director of Senior Corporate Counsel at GitHub, used GitHub Copilot CLI to build a custom skill that embeds inline screenshots of source documents to verify AI analysis.
Dan's tool, aptly named Eyeball, helps the legal team check complex clauses and act on AI outputs with confidence. Now, every lawyer at GitHub is using the terminal to streamline their daily workflows. ▶️
Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg with Nas, Steve Stoute, and Grandmaster Caz on the Paid in Full Foundation
Caz penned rhymes that became Rapper's Delight. Even with his name in them, he got nothing.
The Paid in Full foundation honors the people who created hip-hop by making sure they're "paid in full," financially, spiritually, and culturally.
As Nas points out, money alone reads as a handout. So the grant comes attached to the honor. Each year at the foundation's Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards, pioneers are celebrated by the artists they inspired.
Caz ultimately received a five-year grant, bought a house, and left the projects. In his words: "The thing is the honor. The thing is putting you in the light that you deserve to be in."
Ben says he bought Paid in Full (the album) for $10 and got at least $5 million worth of value out of the record, with no way to pay it back.
The vision is paying the debt. Felicia Horowitz runs the foundation. She and Ben are matching donations 2.5 to 1, and every dollar goes to the artists.
paidinfullfoundation.org
0:00 Intro
1:40 The $10 album that was worth $5M to Ben
3:10 Nas: in hip-hop, you can't just give money
5:05 Why artists thought it was a scam
9:30 Caz wrote Rapper's Delight and got nothing
11:40 Roxanne Shanté: "I wanted the right award"
16:35 Dr. Dre asks to meet Kool Moe Dee and Slick Rick
18:50 Why the industry never did this
26:05 Ben: start with what's right, not what's possible
29:10 Inside the room: Grand Puba, George Clinton
32:15 The Quincy Jones Award
37:00 Scarface and Rakim talk writing for the first time
38:45 Caz: the grant got me out of the projects
43:45 What hip-hop did for Adidas, Hilfiger and Sprite
48:00 How Felicia saved Scarface's life
52:10 Quincy Jones stories, and Nas's jazz legend dad
@Nas@SteveStoute@GrandmasterCaz@bhorowitz@eriktorenberg
This guy did something similar to jev a year ago but didn’t tell the world. This is why we tell founders at YC to *launch* (early and often).
Time to launch F26!
Had to share one more update because its epic, but I'm going to focus in and finish this. Next update will be the finished game. Probably going to be a few days but I promise it will be incredible.
For me the message here is more alarming than a mere cartel. I wish. But the real message is that the people making the models have become scared enough of them to take the otherwise unthinkable step of inviting the government in.
so @taylorotwell asked me this week to make php / laravel install on omarchy to be stupid fast
@dhh just merged it
4.82s on my laptop.. php (statically compiled) and composer fully managed by mise 💨
I couldn't be more thrilled! 👏
I've been on Linux for the past 20 years (never owned an Apple product, used Windows here and there but always hated it).
I never thought we were ever gonna have a year of Linux desktop.
Then @dhh came along with Omarchy.
If models are getting dangerous, you want to slow down. But you don't want to slow down unilaterally and be left behind. So you ask the government to make your competitors slow down too. And you can't do that with a straight face without asking to be regulated yourself.
To soothe the pain of this cognitive dissonance, "fishy" conspiracy theories are invented. But there's nothing mysterious about Omarchy's success: Great software, great timing, great enthusiasm. Without all the usual loathing and bile. Simple recipe, extraordinary results.
Hot off the press on a Sunday!
Available Day-0 in Diffusers 🤗
The model is really cool and has an interesting way of using KV-caching and a disentangled prefill + decode. Will do a separate thread on that!
Check out the model here:
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Imag…
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