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• The IDF is planning to displace close to 2 million Palestinians to the Rafah area, where compounds for the delivery of humanitarian aid are being built.

• The compounds are to be managed by a new international foundation and private U.S. companies, though it's unclear how the plan will function after the UN and all aid organizations announced they won't take part

Qwen3 was apparently posted early, then quickly pulled from HuggingFace and Modelscope. The large ones are MoEs, per screenshots from Reddit:

screenshots

Including a 235B/22B active and a 30B/3B active.

Context appears to 'only' be 32K unfortunately: https://huggingface.co/qingy2024/Qwen3-0.6B/blob/main/config_4b.json

But its possible they're still training them to 256K:

from reddit

Take it all with a grain of salt, configs could change with the official release, but it appears it is happening today.

This is one of the "smartest" models you can fit on a 24GB GPU now, with no offloading and very little quantization loss. It feels big and insightful, like a better (albeit dry) Llama 3.3 70B with thinking, and with more STEM world knowledge than QwQ 32B, but comfortably fits thanks the new exl3 quantization!

You need to use a backend that support exl3, like (at the moment) text-gen-web-ui or (soon) TabbyAPI.

"It makes me think that maybe he [Putin] doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through 'Banking' or 'Secondary Sanctions?' Too many people are dying!!!", Trump wrote.

The U.S. expects Ukraine's response Wednesday to a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control of nearly all areas occupied since the 2022 invasion, sources with direct knowledge of the proposal tell Axios.

What Russia gets under Trump's proposal:

• "De jure" U.S. recognition of Russian control in Crimea.
• "De-facto recognition" of the Russia's occupation of nearly all of Luhansk oblast and the occupied portions of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
• A promise that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. The text notes that Ukraine could become part of the European Union.
• The lifting of sanctions imposed since 2014.
• Enhanced economic cooperation with the U.S., particularly in the energy and industrial sectors.

What Ukraine gets under Trump's proposal:

• "A robust security guarantee" involving an ad hoc group of European countries and potentially also like-minded non-European countries. The document is vague in terms of how this peacekeeping operation would function and does not mention any U.S. participation.
• The return of the small part of Kharkiv oblast Russia has occupied.
• Unimpeded passage of the Dnieper River, which runs along the front line in parts of southern Ukraine.
• Compensation and assistance for rebuilding, though the document does not say where the funding will come from.

Whole article is worth a read, as it’s quite short/dense as Axios usually is. For those outside the US, this is an outlet that’s been well sourced in Washington for years.

Seems there's not a lot of talk about relatively unknown finetunes these days, so I'll start posting more!

Openbuddy's been on my radar, but this one is very interesting: QwQ 32B, post-trained on openbuddy's dataset, apparently with QAT applied (though it's kinda unclear) and context-extended. Observations:

• Quantized with exllamav2, it seems to show lower distortion levels than nomal QwQ. Its works conspicuously well at 4.0bpw and 3.5bpw.

• Seems good at long context. Have not tested 200K, but it's quite excellent in the 64K range.

• Works fine in English.

• The chat template is funky. It seems to mix up the and <|think|> tags in particular (why don't they just use ChatML?), and needs some wrangling with your own template.

• Seems smart, can't say if it's better or worse than QwQ yet, other than it doesn't seem to "suffer" below 3.75bpw like QwQ does.

Also, I reposted this from /r/locallama, as I feel the community generally should going forward. With its spirit, it seems like we should be on Lemmy instead?

So I had a clip I wanted to upload to a lemmy comment:

• Tried it as an (avc) mp4... Failed.
• OK, too big? I shrink it to 2MB, then 1MB. Failed.
• VP9 Webm maybe? 2MB, 1MB, failed. AV1? Failed.
• OK, fine, no video. Lets try an animated AVIF. Failed. It seems lemmy doesn't even take static AVIF images
• WebP animation then... Failed. Animated PNG, failed.

End result, I have to burden the server with a massive, crappy looking GIF after trying a dozen formats. With all due respect, this is worse than some aging service like Reddit that doesn't support new media formats.

For reference, I'm using the web interface. Is this just a format restriction of lemmy.world, or an underlying software support issue?

53% of Americans approve of Trump so far, according to a newly released CBS News/YouGov poll conducted Feb. 5 to 7, while 47% disapproved.

A large majority, 70%, said he was doing what he promised in the campaign, per the poll that was released on Sunday.

Yes, but: 66% said he was not focusing enough on lowering prices, a key campaign trail promise that propelled Trump to the White House.

44% of Republicans said Musk and DOGE should have "some" influence, while just 13% of Democrats agreed.

Here's the Meta formula:

• Put a Trump friend on your board (Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White).
• Promote a prominent Republican as your chief global affairs officer (Joel Kaplan, succeeding liberal-friendly Nick Clegg, president of global affairs).
• Align your philosophy with Trump's on a big-ticket public issue (free speech over fact-checking).
• Announce your philosophical change on Fox News, hoping Trump is watching. In this case, he was. "Meta, Facebook, I think they've come a long way," Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago news conference, adding of Kaplan's appearance on the "Fox and Friends" curvy couch: "The man was very impressive."
• Take a big public stand on a favorite issue for Trump and MAGA (rolling back DEI programs).
• Amplify that stand in an interview with Fox News Digital. (Kaplan again!)
• Go on Joe Rogan's podcast and blast President Biden for censorship.

Reality check: Trump pledged to end the program in 2016.

Called it. When push comes to shove, Trump is always going to side with the ultra-rich.

Trump, who has remained silent thus far on the schism, faces a quickly deepening conflict between his richest and most powerful advisors on one hand, and the people who swept him to office on the other.

All this is stupid. But I know one thing:

Trump is a billionaire.

And I predict his followers are going to learn who he’ll side with when push comes to shove.

Also, Bannon’s take is interesting:

Bannon tells Axios he helped kick off the debate with a now-viral Gettr post earlier this month calling out a lack of support for the Black and Hispanic communities in Big Tech.