Bruce Li

Introduction Today, Inception Labs released the first commercially available Diffusion Large Language Model (dLLM) – Mercury Coder, and caused a big stir both in the research community as well as in the AI industry. In contrast to auto-regression LLMs (all the LLMs you know today), diffusion LLM works like your favorite AI image generators such as Stable Diffusion, where the final results emerge from a cloud of gibberish text. See one example below for the

Too Long; Didn’t Read For us GPU-poor, however, having our own AI computer seems to be a pricey dream. Macbook M3 Max? $3200, ouch! Nvidia 4090? $1850; that hurts even if you can get one. Microsoft Surface Laptop 6? Starting at $1200, still too much.  What if I tell you that you can get a useful AI computer for $300? Interested? You do need to supply your own monitor, keyboard, and mouse. And you need