#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

habrGPT: training a 0.5B LLM from scratch on Habr articles — Karpathy’s nanochat and an fp8 vs bf16 comparison
An experiment in training a 500-million-parameter language model from scratch on the Habr corpus: Karpathy’s nanochat, a home GPU instead of

Meta contractor discharged bacteria-contaminated water into Wyoming's sewer system while building an AI data center
A Meta construction contractor discharged bacteria-contaminated wastewater into Cheyenne's municipal sewer system — the incident forced Wyom

Nvidia pairs GPUs with startup d-Matrix's inference chips instead of competing with it

NVIDIA released Audex-30B — a unified audio-text MoE model based on Nemotron-Cascade-2

Hugging Face: transformers backend in vLLM now runs at native speed

Microsoft bets on in-house AI models to cut costs

Perplexity among the first AI companies to adopt Nvidia's new Vera processor
Perplexity AI said it plans to run agent workloads on Nvidia's new Vera CPU — the company's first in-house processor, opening a path beyond

Neural networks are bad calculators: why LLMs fail at arithmetic and what to do about it
Language models predict tokens rather than calculate, which is why they make confident mistakes in the middle of long numbers. We break down













