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Notes from the trenches on AI engineering, LLM apps, and the full-stack work that holds it all together.

Krea 2 shrinks to 12GB so consumer GPUs can run aesthetic image gen
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Krea 2 shrinks to 12GB so consumer…

Krea AI open-sourced Krea 2, a 12.9B-parameter diffusion transformer trained from scratch. Turbo runs in 8 steps on GGUF quants that fit 12GB VRAM. Raw is the fine-tune base; Turbo is what you ship.

Mistral OCR 4 returns a document map, not a text dump
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Mistral OCR 4 returns a document map,…

Mistral OCR 4 adds paragraph-level bounding boxes, 13 block types, and inline confidence scores across 170 languages. At $4 per 1,000 pages it is built for RAG chunking, agent grounding, and self-hosted document pipelines.