AI Startup Diary #2: The Invisible Work is What Matters Most

Over the past few days, our team has pushed through a massive amount of work on A.V.E.L.I.N. This is a crucial stage where the product changes very little on the surface, but internally, we’re implementing dozens of architectural decisions, refining core logic, and running extensive tests. A.V.E.L.I.N is learning to understand not just words, but intent. It can already select the most effective model for a given context and analyze queries from voice and video, not only text. We are intensely focused on making the interaction feel fluid and organic. ...

12 May, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Yury Akinin

DeepSeek-V3: A Quiet Release with Impressive Local Performance

DeepSeek has once again followed its “quiet release” strategy, making its new DeepSeek-V3-0324 model available on Hugging Face without any major announcements. Instead of marketing hype, they’ve simply delivered a solution for the community to evaluate. I tested the model locally on a Mac Studio equipped with an M3 Ultra chip and saw impressive performance, generating over 20 tokens per second. This marks a significant acceleration for running capable models on local hardware, making it a viable option for developers. ...

27 March, 2025 · 1 min · 113 words · Yury Akinin