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GLM

Software

9 creators

Fine-tuning for style transfer and personality customization in AI companions

"Within open weights, you might want to start with the new GLM model which has fewer parameters but it's still a very long context window which gives you more flexibility. It's less locked into its training than the closed source models. And so if you go to ..."

Dave Blundin

Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293 ▶ 1:03:31
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Product work

"GLM 5.3 just came out, which I used for a bunch of product work. It doesn't have a vision component, and it's sort of like this neurotic PhD you put in the corner. And they both have their role."

Anish Acharya

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) ▶ 27:47

Automated hourly research via a cron job on a Bittensor subnet, with self-improving prompts

"Somebody gave me an API key to a Bittensor subnet that had put GLM-5.1 from Z.AI. And I was like, okay, I'm not being metered. Instead of doing this daily cron job to do research on something, I was like, give it to me every hour."

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DeepSeek

Software

5 creators

Base model for his team's open-source harness

"We took the cheapest DeepSeek model and made it beat OpenAI's last frontier model using this harness, and the cost is 50 times lower."

Emad Mostaque

THIS is What Happens When AI Gets Smarter Than Humans ▶ 26:24
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Cost-efficient task execution in Cursor; near-free Google Sheets creation and general agent tasks

"DeepSeek V4 Flash is probably the most interesting because for certain tasks it is 105 times cheaper than Claude. I highly recommend trying these models. This model is 20 to 100 times cheaper depending on the task."

Riley Brown

Codex Is Winning… But Claude Has One HUGE Advantage ▶ 14:28

AI assistant access while traveling in China

"When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. DeepSeek is intentionally crippled in China. It's not as good as it is here. It can't search the web and it is trained on different data as near as I can tell."

Jason Lemkin

Wall St's $725BN AI Question | The Rise of Open Source & How it Threatens OpenAI & Anthropic ▶ 20:58
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Llama

Software

3 creators

General purpose AI tasks with community support

"Llama by Meta. It's really become very important in the whole open ecosystem. It's got a huge community, a ton of fine tunes. It's got a lot of tutorials that you can go and check out. It runs almost anywhere. When in doubt, there's probably a llama for you..."

Greg Isenberg

Claude Fable 5 is BANNED. What to do? ▶ 12:49
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Base models for fine-tuning and post-training work

"What we did to initially gain some popularity was like Llama was putting out base models. We fine-tuned those into something that we thought would be like something the market would want."

Dylan Rolnick

New Apple Products, Jared Isaacman Joins, Anthropic's Strategy, Korean Stock Market Crash ▶ 2:24:25
"We have a whole bunch of Llama and Mistral running and stuff internally and a bunch of OpenAI."

Mike Cannon Brooks

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Qwen

Software

4 creators

Repairing existing images — fixing a label, replacing one object, localizing a headline, or correcting small visual mistakes without affecting the rest

"If the image is already good but one detail's wrong — Qwen. It's really good at repairing a label or replacing one object, localizing a headline, or correcting one small visual mistake, but you want to preserve everything else. So I use it as a repair shop ..."

Greg Isenberg

The $3,000/Day Solo AI business with Astra + Upwork ▶ 29:18
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Creating 'impossible documentaries' of Star Wars planets — generating scripts, directing video generation, and orchestrating audio

"In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars ..."

Anish Acharya

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) ▶ 27:03

Reading Twitter and Reddit 24/7 to look for market signals and customer pain points

"You can run mid-size good models like Qwen 36 pretty quickly on the DGX Spark, which is nice. Quinn 36, which is not quite as smart as GLM, I can have that reading Twitter and Reddit all day just looking for signal. That's a very simple thing to find."

Alex Finn

Local AI models explained: How to run a fleet of Mac Studios and GPUs at home ▶ 10:42
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