Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs)

February 3, 2026 Two guests for the price of one! This episode has two interviews recorded at AWS re:Invent back in December. In part 1, Ryan chats with the co-founder and CEO of Inception, Stefano Ermon, about diffusion language models and how their multiple token generation compares to traditional LLMs (spoiler: they’re faster and more […]

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Introducing the Codex app

Introducing the Codex app. OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I’ve had a few days of preview access – it’s a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and […]

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Intel returns to boxed workstation CPUs with Xeon 600 — Granite Rapids WS delivers up to 86 cores, 4TB of memory, and 128 PCIe 5 lanes

After nearly three years, Intel is returning to the desktop workstation with the hotly-anticipated (and long-rumored) Granite Rapid-WS series. Now known as Xeon 600, the new series covers all of Intel’s bases for desktop workstations. With previous-gen Sapphire Rapids-WS, Intel split its offerings between two different lineups — Xeon W-2500 and Xeon W-3500 — but […]

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