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The dev toolchain is getting a serious upgrade on both ends. Zed hits 1.0 after five years built on Rust and GPU rendering, no Electron in sight. Meanwhile Microsoft open-sources TRELLIS.2, turning a single photo into a game-ready 3D asset in seconds.

The pattern? Raw performance is back in fashion. We're done apologizing for slow tools.

With Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon, Qwen at 120 tok/s, and reasoning tokens cut 11x, local-first is winning.

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Lior Alexander. Founder of AlphaSignal and former ML Engineer. Previously built ML systems at Iguazio, Guesty, Enphase, Mila.

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Top Repo

▸ Warp goes open-source with GPT-powered agents handling code and testing

Lambda

▸ Improve your Model FLOPS Utilization by >25%

Top News

▸ Zed releases 1.0 of its Rust-built code editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux

Speechmatics

▸ agent.listen() - but who's talking?

Top Model

▸ Qwen runs locally on an RTX 5080 at 120 tok/s, finishing tasks in 17 seconds

Signals

1. Microsoft releases open-source 4B-parameter image-to-3D model with high-res textured output

2. TauricResearch releases open-source multi-agent LLM framework for financial trading

3. Sakana AI trains a 7B model to manage other LLMs and beat them all

4. Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2.5, a native omnimodal model handling text, vision, and audio

5. Google's Gemma 4 31B model now runs locally on Apple Silicon Macs

Top Repo

Warp goes open-source with GPT-powered agents handling code and testing

7,162 Likes

Warp, the AI-powered terminal, just went open source. The full Rust codebase is now on GitHub under an AGPL v3 license, with the UI framework separately under MIT. The repo hit 40k stars almost immediately.

Here's what makes this different from a normal open source drop: you don't just submit a PR and wait. The contribution model is agent-first. Oz, Warp's cloud agent system that runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel, handles the actual coding, planning, and testing. Your job is to bring the ideas and verify the output. Think of it as directing a robot dev team.

What you can actually do now:

Audit and fork the full terminal codebase
Submit feedback and open GitHub issues directly from Warp using the new /feedback skill
Bring your own agent: Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI all work inside Warp
Build locally with ./script/bootstrap and ./script/run

OpenAI is the founding sponsor, powering the agentic workflows with GPT models. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Improve your Model FLOPS Utilization by >25%

Most large-scale training runs operate at 35–45% Model FLOPS Utilization (MFU). You're paying for twice the compute you're using.

Lambda's engineers benchmarked Llama 3.1 models from 8B to 405B on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and traced efficiency loss to its root causes:

Memory overhead
Parallelism strategy
Serialized communication

The result: a reproducible framework that pushed MFU past 60% (25%+ improvement vs. industry benchmark) with no changes to model architecture.

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Top News

Zed releases 1.0 of its Rust-built code editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux

3,199 Likes

Zed just hit 1.0. Five years, a million lines of code, and over a thousand shipped versions later, the editor is finally out of zero.

So what actually is Zed? It's a code editor built from scratch in Rust, using the GPU to render your UI the same way a video game would. That means it's genuinely fast, not just "fast for an editor." No Electron, no browser engine underneath.

Here's what you get out of the box:

Git integration, SSH remoting, and a debugger
Run multiple AI agents in parallel while you code
Connect Claude, Codex, or OpenCode directly into your workflow
Real-time collaboration with teammates, built into the editor itself
Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux

If you tried Zed before and left because something was missing, now's the time to revisit. They ship updates every week, and 1.0 just means it's ready for daily use.

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agent.listen() - but who's talking?

Your agent hears the conversation but can't attribute speakers.

Speechmatics gives you real-time diarization and speaker lock via API - 55+ languages, 25% better accuracy than #2, sub-second latency.

One integration. Every voice gets a name.

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Top Model

Qwen runs locally on an RTX 5080 at 120 tok/s, finishing tasks in 17 seconds

1,863 Likes

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B just dropped as a free, open-weight model from Alibaba, and people are already running it faster than Claude on consumer hardware.

Here is what makes it interesting. It uses a Mixture of Experts design, meaning it has 35 billion total parameters but only activates 3 billion per response. Think of it like a team of 256 specialists where only 9 show up to each task. You get big-model quality at small-model speed.

What it opens up for you:

262K native context, extendable to 1 million tokens via a scaling trick called YaRN
Scored 51.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, beating every model in the comparison including Qwen3.5-27B at 41.6
Agentic coding: handles full repo reasoning, frontend workflows, and tool calling out of the box
Runs at 100-120 tokens per second on a single RTX 5080 using the Unsloth GGUF quantized version

Grab it via

unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF

on HuggingFace. Apache 2.0 license, so no strings attached.

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Signals

Microsoft releases open-source 4B-parameter image-to-3D model with high-res textured output

1,450 Likes

Viktor writes docs, ships PRs, runs reports, sends emails. Your AI coworker in Slack.

Presented by Viktor

TauricResearch releases open-source multi-agent LLM framework for financial trading

54,508 Stars

Sakana AI trains a 7B model to manage other LLMs and beat them all

1,379 Likes

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2.5, a native omnimodal model handling text, vision, and audio

2,661 Downloads

Google's Gemma 4 31B model now runs locally on Apple Silicon Macs

1,086 Likes

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