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Llmspeed Lets Developers Test Local LLM Performance Before Hardware Purchase

Llmspeed provides estimates on hardware performance for local LLMs, helping developers make informed buying decisions.

Why it mattersLlmspeed signals a shift toward more data-driven AI infrastructure planning. By providing transparency on hardware performance, it helps developers make informed decisions, balancing local deployment costs against cloud flexibility and scalability.

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Tools

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Trending AI model on Hugging Face — image-text-to-text.

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NandhaKishorM/laya

Non-autoregressive System 1 decision engine. Typed choice, score and yes/no decisions over any text in a single forward pass, in 100+ languages, with a router that picks the right…

github | stars 33,251

anywhere-labs/dsh-desktop

为 DeepSeek Harness (DSH) 插件生态打造的现代化桌面端解决方案。万物皆「插件」,桌面本身也是「插件」。

github | stars 31,258

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Research

Learning to Steer LLM Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Large language model (LLM)-based agents and multi-agent systems increasingly tackle complex tasks through long-horizon tool use and inter-agent collaboration. However, these systems are prone to deviating from the overa…

arxiv

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

Existing agent benchmarks typically evaluate agents on well-specified tasks defined by issue reports, specifications, or task tickets. Real-world customer delivery is different: forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) must cl…

arxiv

Playbooks

From Specialist Agents to Distributed Skills over MCP

Keep your domain services distributed. Move the specialist’s instructions, not another model, into the orchestrator. A multi-agent system often starts with a straightforward design: one agent understands the user’s requ…

devblogs.microsoft

Selecting The Right AI Evals Tool

Over the past year, I’ve focused heavily on AI Evals , both in my consulting work and teaching. A question I get constantly is, “What’s the best tool for evals?”. I’ve always resisted answering directly for two reasons.…

hamel

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