Axera AX8860: 128 GB at 40 W, Aimed at the DGX Spark

Axera announced the AX8860 with the same 128 GB LPDDR5X and 273 GB/s as the DGX Spark, at 40 W, with partners claiming it beats it on Qwen 27B. The arithmetic that says which half of that claim holds, and the state of the Pulsar2 and ax-llm software.

Kimi K3 Open Weights Are Live: What Actually Shipped

Moonshot put the Kimi K3 weights on Hugging Face, and the largest open-weight model anyone has shipped is now a download. We read the actual repo instead of the press cycle. Here is what landed, what it costs you in hardware, and which widely repeated numbers do not survive contact with the file listing.

The June 2026 Open-Weight Wave: 16 Models in One Week

The first week of June 2026 was the densest stretch of open-weight releases anyone has tracked: frontier models across language, image, audio, video, and 3D, mostly under permissive licenses. What shipped, what to believe, and what it means for builders.

Tenstorrent TT-QuietBox 2

Tenstorrent TT-QuietBox 2 ships Q2 2026 at $9,999: four Blackhole ASICs, 128 GB GDDR6, fully Apache-2.0 RISC-V software stack, liquid-cooled, wall outlet.