

Ismail Salim
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@IssySalim
Co-founder/CEO @RunLocalAI (YC S24). Making it easier to ship better on-device AI. Also into house/techno from early 90's/00's,














what would pocket, kindle or audible look like as a completely ai native app? i've been playing around with a new ai native e-reader prototype that i built. - ask questions using your voice and get responses in voice and text - the llm has context to the text your reading + other content that you've saved this prototype uses openai's realtime api and the text i'm reading here is @simonw's "things we learned about llm's in 2024".


Holy shit! Did we just open-source the smallest video-LM in the world? SmolVLM2 is runnning natively on your iPhone 🚀 huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2

🚀 Excited to share our technical report on the Southeast Asian multilingual model Sailor2 and its latest updates! Our 49-page report details Sailor2's development journey, including multilingual data cleaning, small model data mixture simulations, multi-stage continual pre-training, multi-stage post-training, and multi-cultural multi-lingual evaluations. Sailor2 aims to streamline the multilingual model pre-training process efficiently for the community. 🧭 We highlight Sailor2's impressive performance in low-resource language translation scenarios and its cultural understanding advantages in Southeast Asia, promoting practical applications for regional languages. Model updates include: 💡 More precise outputs: Reduced redundancy in model outputs through refined post-training data and optimization techniques. 🌈 Handling longer texts: Expanded to handle up to 128K context length in Southeast Asian languages through long-text training. ⚡️ Faster inference: Achieved 2.5x faster inference speed with speculative decoding. 🌪️ More model sizes: Introduced new sizes of 3B and 14B through model pruning. 🌟 All models are Apache-licensed for commercial use; development tools (code, resources) are open-source. 📚 Technical report: huggingface.co/papers/2502.12… 🤖️ Models: huggingface.co/collections/sa… 💬 Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/sail/Sa… 📣 Sailor2 community: huggingface.co/sailor2


Let's build a multimodal RAG app using Qwen2.5-VL Max (100% local):






