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1:01ENOpenAI’s gpt-oss Release and a Coding BenchmarkMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces two open-weight models and reviews a Codeforces comparison from the launch.
5:27ENWays to Try DeepSeek R1: Hosted and Local Distilled ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates DeepSeek chat, Groq’s hosted distill and a local model in LM Studio.
0:28ENComparing Three Local Coding ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces a sponsored comparison of DeepSeek Coder V2, Yi-Coder and Qwen Coder running on a workstation.
9:15ENLlama 3.2 Adds Vision and Smaller On-Device ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureIn a Meta-partnered 2024 video, Matthew Berman reviews the model family, its tooling and a brief hosted 1B demonstration.
11:14ENPixtral 12B: Testing a 2024 Vision-Language ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs informal image, text and interface-generation tests of Mistral’s Pixtral on a sponsor-provided cloud GPU.
13:40ENTesting Llama 3.1 8B: Benchmark Gains and Mixed Practical ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, reasoning and other prompts on the small model and finds several failures despite stronger reported benchmarks.
9:53ENTesting Microsoft Phi-3 Medium Locally: Mixed Coding and Reasoning ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs a quantized Phi-3 Medium on a MacBook and explores coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts.
12:50ENTesting Smaug: Hosted 70B Versus a Smaller Local ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares two Smaug configurations on Snake, math and reasoning puzzles.
14:23ENTesting DBRX: Coding Strengths and Reasoning GapsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Databricks’ open-weight model and puts it through coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts.
14:11ENLM Studio in 2024: Local Models, Parallel Inference and a Local APIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates model downloads, hardware settings, JSON output and serving multiple local models.
3:37ENMark Zuckerberg Announces Llama 3 Training and Meta’s AI PlansMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureIn January 2024, Matthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s remarks on general intelligence, compute and AI devices.
4:42ENConnecting AutoGen to a Local Model With LM StudioMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates an early local-model setup and explains where agent behavior still needs work.
12:20ENTesting UltraLM 13B: A Small Model’s Strengths and Reasoning ErrorsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 local test finds useful writing and simple coding alongside failures in games, arithmetic and logic.
10:40ENTesting Nous Hermes 13B Locally: Mixed Reasoning and Unsafe ResponsesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares a 2023 quantized model on hosted and local hardware, with uneven results across coding, logic and safety.
11:42ENGuanaco and QLoRA: A 2023 Fine-Tuning and Model TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the QLoRA paper, explains the reported memory savings and tries Guanaco 65B on an informal prompt set.