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All rights reserved.Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000Google's Gemma 3 270M — Why Tiny Models Are the Real AI Storyhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250814-gemma3-270m-small-models-big-impact/Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250814-gemma3-270m-small-models-big-impact/Google releases Gemma 3 at 270M parameters, proving that smaller, more efficient models might matter more than the next big model launch.DeepSeek R1 — Open-Source Reasoning Models Change the Gamehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250123-deepseek-r1-open-source-reasoning/Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250123-deepseek-r1-open-source-reasoning/DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model, released as fully open-source with an MIT license, demonstrates that frontier AI capabilities aren’t exclusive to US labs anymore.Ollama and the Rise of Local LLMs — Why Running AI on Your Own Hardware Mattershttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240711-ollama-local-llm-revolution/Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240711-ollama-local-llm-revolution/Local LLM tooling has matured rapidly, with Ollama leading the charge. Here’s why self-hosted AI is becoming a serious option for developers.Meta Releases Llama 3 — Open Source AI Just Got Serioushttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240418-meta-llama-3-release/Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240418-meta-llama-3-release/Meta’s Llama 3 arrives with 8B and 70B parameter models that rival closed-source competitors, reshaping the open-weight AI landscape.Code Llama — Meta's Open Source Bet on AI-Assisted Codinghttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230824-code-llama-open-source-code-generation/Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230824-code-llama-open-source-code-generation/Meta releases Code Llama, a family of open-source code generation models, and it might just change the dynamics of AI-assisted development.Meta Releases Llama 2 — Open Source AI Gets a Massive Boosthttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230720-meta-llama2-open-source-llm/Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230720-meta-llama2-open-source-llm/Meta’s release of Llama 2 as a commercially-licensed open model changes the game for developers building with large language models.Meta Releases LLaMA — Open-Source AI Just Got Serioushttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230223-meta-llama-open-source-llm/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230223-meta-llama-open-source-llm/Meta’s release of LLaMA, a family of foundation language models available to researchers, could reshape the AI landscape by democratizing access to powerful LLMs.OpenAI Whisper — Open Source Speech Recognition That Actually Workshttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220922-openai-whisper-speech-recognition/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220922-openai-whisper-speech-recognition/OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of data that approaches human-level accuracy across multiple languages.Stable Diffusion Goes Open Source — And Changes Everythinghttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220908-stable-diffusion-open-source-ai/Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220908-stable-diffusion-open-source-ai/Stability AI’s open release of Stable Diffusion marks a watershed moment for generative AI, putting powerful image generation in the hands of every developer.Stable Diffusion Goes Public — Open Source AI Image Generation Changes Everythinghttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220825-stable-diffusion-open-source-ai-art/Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220825-stable-diffusion-open-source-ai-art/Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion as open source, putting state-of-the-art image generation in the hands of anyone with a GPU. The implications are enormous.GitHub Copilot and the Open Source Licensing Firestormhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210812-github-copilot-open-source-debate/Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210812-github-copilot-open-source-debate/GitHub Copilot’s AI-powered code suggestions have sparked a fierce debate about open source licensing, training data consent, and the future of code ownership.AlphaFold's Protein Database — When AI Delivers on the Hypehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210722-alphafold-protein-database-ai-science/Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/210722-alphafold-protein-database-ai-science/DeepMind releases 350,000 protein structure predictions as an open database — a rare moment where AI genuinely accelerates scientific progress.AlphaFold 2 — DeepMind Cracks the Protein Folding Problemhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201126-alphafold2-protein-folding-breakthrough/Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201126-alphafold2-protein-folding-breakthrough/DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 achieves near-experimental accuracy in protein structure prediction at CASP14. This is what AI breakthroughs actually look like.Reformer — Can We Make Transformers Practical for the Rest of Us?https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200123-reformer-efficient-transformers/Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200123-reformer-efficient-transformers/Google’s new Reformer model tackles the massive memory and compute costs of Transformers. For engineers building AI-powered features, this matters more than another benchmark score.