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If it does in the future, do we just hope it won’t be retroactive? Is this water boiling yet?
ex post facto law is explicitly banned in the US Constitution
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Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
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#82Interesting, the pacing seemed very slow when conversing in english, but when I spoke to it in spanish, it sounded much faster. It's really impressive that these models are going to be able to do real time translation and much more. The Chinese are going to end up owning the AI market if the American labs don't start competing on open weights. Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device…
Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device at home with an open Chinese model running on it Wouldn't worry about that, I'm pretty sure the government is going to ban running Chinese tech in this space sooner or later. And we won't even be able to download it. Not saying any of the bans will make any kind of sense, but I'm pretty sure they're gonna say this is a "strategic" space. And e…
Eh this is the internet. There's always a way. They couldn't ban piracy either.
Re: Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
#83Interesting, the pacing seemed very slow when conversing in english, but when I spoke to it in spanish, it sounded much faster. It's really impressive that these models are going to be able to do real time translation and much more. The Chinese are going to end up owning the AI market if the American labs don't start competing on open weights. Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device…
This is exactly what I do. I have two 3090s at home, with Qwen3 on it. This is tied into my Home Assistant install, and I use esp32 devices as voice satellites. It works shockingly well.
Do you also add custom tools to turn on/off the lights?
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
ex post facto law is explicitly banned in the US Constitution
Dogs can't play basketball, either, but we've sure been getting dunked on a lot lately.
History is littered with unconstitutional, enforced laws, as well. Watched a lot of Ken Burns docs this weekend while sick. “The West” has quite a few examples.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exactly what I do. I have two 3090s at home, with Qwen3 on it. This is tied into my Home Assistant install, and I use esp32 devices as voice satellites. It works shockingly well.
Can you tell me about these voice satellites?
He is referring the M5 Atom's I believe. I strongly recommend the ESP32 S3 box now, you can fire up Bobbas special firmware for it, search on Github, and its a blast with Home Assistant.
Re: Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
#86Interesting, the pacing seemed very slow when conversing in english, but when I spoke to it in spanish, it sounded much faster. It's really impressive that these models are going to be able to do real time translation and much more. The Chinese are going to end up owning the AI market if the American labs don't start competing on open weights. Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device…
sitting here in the US, reading that China is strongly urging the adoption of Linux and pushing for open CPU architectures like RISC-V and also self-hosted open models are we the baddies??
If there is a walled garden, and you aren't in it, you'll probably push for the walls to come down. No moral basis needed.
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#87Interesting, the pacing seemed very slow when conversing in english, but when I spoke to it in spanish, it sounded much faster. It's really impressive that these models are going to be able to do real time translation and much more. The Chinese are going to end up owning the AI market if the American labs don't start competing on open weights. Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device…
> Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device at home with an open Chinese model running on it, if they care about privacy or owning their data. I think HN vastly overestimates the market for something like this. Yes, there are some people who would spend $2,000 to avoid having prompts go to any cloud service. However, most people don’t care. Paying $20 per month for a ChatGPT subscript…
There is going to be a big market for private AI appliances, in my estimation at least.
Case in point: I give Gmail OAuth access to nobody. I nearly got burned once and I really don’t want my entire domain nuked. But I want to be able to have an LLM do things only LLMs can do with my email.
“Find all emails with ‘autopay’ in the subject from my utility company for the past 12 months, then compare it to the prior year’s data.” GPT-OSS-20b tried its best but got the math obviously wrong. Qwen happily made the tool calls and spat out an accurate report, and even offered to make a CSV for me.
Surely if you can’t trust npm packages or MS to not hand out god tokens to any who asks nicely, you shouldn’t trust a random MCP server with your credentials or your model. So I had Kilocode build my own. For that use case, local models just don’t quite cut it. I loaded $10 into OpenRouter, told it what I wanted, and selected GPT5 because it’s half off this week. 45 minutes, $0.78, and a few manual interventions later I had a working Gmail MCP that is my very own. It gave me some great instructions on how to configure an OAuth app in GCP, and I was able to get it running queries within minutes from my local models.
There is a consumer play for a ~$2499-$5000 box that can run your personal staff of agents on the horizon. We need about one more generation of models and another generation of low-mid inference hardware to make it commercially feasible to turn a profit. It would need to pay for itself easily in the lives of its adopters. Then the mass market could open up. A more obvious path goes through SMBs who care about control and data sovereignty.
If you’re curious, my power bill is up YoY, but there was a rate hike, definitely not my 4090;).
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#88Interesting, the pacing seemed very slow when conversing in english, but when I spoke to it in spanish, it sounded much faster. It's really impressive that these models are going to be able to do real time translation and much more. The Chinese are going to end up owning the AI market if the American labs don't start competing on open weights. Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device…
There is some irony about buying Chinese hardware to run American software on it for the past decade(s), and now the exact reverse.
Is that irony? Regardless, it's hilarious. All of the upvotes to you!
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#89Interesting, the pacing seemed very slow when conversing in english, but when I spoke to it in spanish, it sounded much faster. It's really impressive that these models are going to be able to do real time translation and much more. The Chinese are going to end up owning the AI market if the American labs don't start competing on open weights. Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device…
> Americans may end up in a situation where they have some $1000-2000 device at home with an open Chinese model running on it, if they care about privacy or owning their data. I think HN vastly overestimates the market for something like this. Yes, there are some people who would spend $2,000 to avoid having prompts go to any cloud service. However, most people don’t care. Paying $20 per month for a ChatGPT subscript…
The sales case for having LLMs at the edge is to run inference everywhere on everything. Video games won't go to the cloud for every AI call, but they will use on-device models that will run on the next iteration of hardware.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
sitting here in the US, reading that China is strongly urging the adoption of Linux and pushing for open CPU architectures like RISC-V and also self-hosted open models are we the baddies??
If there is a walled garden, and you aren't in it, you'll probably push for the walls to come down. No moral basis needed.
silent majority of HN