
Tenstorrent Blackhole p150a - RISC-V AI Card
Complete specs, benchmarks, and analysis of the Tenstorrent Blackhole p150a - the $1,399 PCIe AI accelerator with 120 Tensix cores, 768 RISC-V processors, 32GB GDDR6, and fully open-source software.
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Complete specs, benchmarks, and analysis of the Tenstorrent Blackhole p150a - the $1,399 PCIe AI accelerator with 120 Tensix cores, 768 RISC-V processors, 32GB GDDR6, and fully open-source software.

Zhipu AI's 744B open-source model GLM-5 was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips and now competes with GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on major benchmarks.

A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V4 and Claude Opus 4.6 - the open-weight challenger that could match Opus on coding at potentially 89x lower output cost.

Two Chinese open-weight trillion-parameter MoE models with ~32B active parameters each - DeepSeek V4 bets on cost and context, Kimi K2.5 bets on Agent Swarm and verified benchmarks.

A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V3.2 and V4 - examining the generational leap from 671B text-only to a trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with 1M context.

DeepSeek will release V4, a natively multimodal trillion-parameter model with a 1M token context window, in the first week of March - optimized for Huawei Ascend chips, not Nvidia.

Awni Hannun, the Stanford-trained researcher who co-created Apple's MLX machine learning framework, announced his departure from Apple. His exit is the latest in a devastating exodus of AI talent that has hollowed out Apple's ML research bench over the past year.

A hands-on review of Aider, the open-source terminal-based AI pair programming tool with git-native workflow, architect/editor mode, and support for 100+ languages across any LLM provider.

An in-depth review of n8n, the fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI agent nodes, 400+ integrations, and self-hosting that is replacing Zapier for technical teams at a fraction of the cost.

A hands-on review of Cline, the open-source VS Code coding agent with 5M+ installs that works with any model - from Claude to local LLMs - and gives you full agentic capabilities without vendor lock-in.

GitHub Copilot CLI reaches general availability for all paid subscribers, bringing autopilot mode, multi-model support across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, background delegation, and parallel fleet execution to the terminal.

IronClaw is an AI agent framework built by Llion Jones, a co-author of the Transformer paper. It prioritizes sandboxed execution, formal skill verification, and zero-trust architecture. We tested whether security-first means capability-second.