Category: AI

Tater – Tater v40

Tater v40 just dropped—and it’s not just an update, it’s a personality transplant 🤖💖

🔥 Home Assistant Gets Smarter:

• New Events Query Brief — ask “Any motion overnight?” and get a clean, JSON-ready summary.
• Weather Query Brief — crisp 255-char snapshots perfect for dashboards, no more truncation hacks.

🎛️ HA Integration Now Flawless:

Auto-updating sensors, time-aware summaries for hourly polls, and zero clunky workarounds. Your smart home just got a brain upgrade.

🎭 One Personality, Everywhere:

Set `tater:personality` once—and it sticks across Discord, IRC, Matrix, WebUI, HomeKit… even XBMC on your Original Xbox. (Yes, really. Cortana mode optional.)

💡 The magic? Tater now feels like it’s always been there—consistent, intuitive, and weirdly charming.

Go ahead. Ask “Hey Tater, what’s the vibe today?”

…your fridge might answer first. 🥔✨

Check it out: https://github.com/TaterTotterson/Tater

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ComfyUI – ComfyUI version v0.4.0

ComfyUI v0.4.0 just landed—and it’s a game-changer for workflow stability 🚀

No more “why did my pipeline break?!” nightmares.

Now:

• Minor versions (v0.4.x) = rock-solid, tested releases from `master`
• Patch versions (v0.4.1, v0.4.2) = critical bug fixes backported without forcing a full upgrade

Think of it like Docker tags for AI workflows—clean, predictable, and dev-friendly.

Your v0.4.x install? Safe to trust. Updates won’t wreck your nodes. Patches land fast.

Perfect for artists, producers, and devs who just wanna render—not debug version chaos. 🎨✨

Full details: https://www.comfy.org/

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Ollama – v0.13.3-rc0

🚀 Ollama v0.13.3-rc0 just dropped — and Mac users, this one’s for you!

Fixed a nasty Metal backend crash with Qwen2.5-VL during `argsort` ops — multimodal inference is now stable on Apple Silicon. 🍎🧠 No more mid-inference bailouts when describing images!

Also tucked in:

• Smoother vision-language pipeline performance
• Tiny tensor handling optimizations under the hood

No breaking changes — just cleaner, more reliable multimodal runs.

Pro tip: Try `ollama run qwen2.5-vl “Describe this image”` — it’ll actually finish now 😉

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MLX-LM – test_data

🚀 MLX LM just dropped 8 new optimized LLMs—fully tuned for Apple Silicon!

Say hello to:

• Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat
• Mistral-7B-v0.2 & v0.3
• DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct (MLX-native 🎯)
• Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
• Falcon3-7B-Instruct
• Qwen3-4B

✅ All 4-bit quantized. ✅ Only `.safetensors`, tokenizer, and Jinja templates—zero bloat.

✅ New lean download for Qwen1.5-0.5B: just the model weights.

✅ Zipped and ready to drop into your MLX pipeline.

No GPU? No problem. M-series chips are now LLM powerhouses.

Grab `test_data.zip` and start whispering to LLMs at near-native speed. 🍏⚡

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Ollama – v0.13.2

Ollama v0.13.2 just landed — tiny patch, big win for docs! 🛠️

✅ Fixed a broken link in the README’s “Community Integrations” section — that sneaky “Swollama” typo is finally gone.

Now you can click through to Swollama (the slick Ollama-powered web UI) without hitting a 404. Perfect for folks exploring local LLM interfaces without leaving their browser.

Clean docs = smoother tinkering. Keep those models rolling! 💡🧠

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Crankboy App – v1.1.0

🚀 CrankBoy v1.1.0 just landed on Playdate — and it’s not just an update, it’s a full GB nostalgia upgrade!

✅ Unified file system: All ROMs & covers now auto-migrate to `/Shared/Emulation/gb` — no more folder chaos.

🔊 Audio overhaul: Smoother, more accurate sound — that iconic Game Boy chime finally sounds right.

🎨 Visual polish: Ghost frames + frame blending = buttery-smooth pixel motion. Your 8-bit dreams are now HD-ready.

📥 In-app downloads: Fetch ROM hacks and patches directly from the emulator. No PC needed.

💾 Save states that actually work: Now emulates cartridge memory like Pokémon — save anywhere, no more gym panic.

🕹️ Crank customization: Tweak sensitivity and behavior to match your playstyle.

🧩 Scripting support: Alleyway (beta) and Link’s Awakening fishing? Scriptable. Castlevania 2: Belmont’s Revenge? Fully playable now.

⚠️ Smart save warnings: No more accidental overwrites — we’ve got your back (and your 1998 save files).

Full changelog on Patreon — but you’ll feel the magic the second you crank it up. Go play. Then come back and scream about how good it feels. 🕹️💙

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Crankboy App – v1.1.1

CrankBoy v1.1.1 just landed — and it’s the quiet hero your Playdate’s been waiting for 🎮💙

Fixed a nasty startup crash on older Linux distros (Ubuntu 20.04, we see you). No more “why won’t it launch?!” — just instant GB/GBC nostalgia.

Under the hood:

• Smoother button responses with subtle UI polish
• Security deps updated (your ROMs stay safe, no funny business 😉)
• Better error logs = faster fixes thanks to sharp-eyed community reports

No flashy features — just a rock-solid, buttery-smooth emulator so you can focus on the real magic: pixel-perfect gameplay and chiptune battles.

Grab it. Boot up your favorite game. And let the retro vibes roll. 🕹️

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Text Generation Webui – v3.20

🎨 Image Generation is LIVE in Text-Generation-WebUI v3.20!

Now generate images right inside your LLM UI with `diffusers` — Z-Image-Turbo supported, 4bit/8bit quantized, `torch.compile` optimized, and PNGs auto-stash your generation params. Gallery? Check. Live progress bar? Yep. OpenAI-compatible image API? Absolutely 🤖✨

⚡ Faster text gen too!

`flash_attention_2` is now ON by default for Transformers models — smoother, quicker responses.

📦 Smaller Linux CUDA builds — download faster, run just as hard.

🔧 llama.cpp updated to latest (0a540f9) + ExLlamaV3 v0.0.17 for better inference stability and speed.

🖼️ Prompt magic upgrade!

Pass `bos_token` and `eos_token` directly into Jinja2 templates — perfect for Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct and similar models.

🚀 Portable builds now include:

• NVIDIA: `cuda12.4`
• AMD/Intel: `vulkan`
• CPU only: `cpu`
• Mac (Apple Silicon): `macos-arm64`

💾 Updating? Just replace the app — keep your `user_data/` folder and all your models, LoRAs, and settings intact.

Go make art. Or let the AI do it for you. 😎🖼️

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Ollama – v0.13.2-rc2: ggml: handle all streams (#13350)

🚀 Ollama v0.13.2-rc2 just dropped — and it’s a quiet win for stability!

The big fix? ggml now handles all GPU/CPU streams properly. No more leaked buffers or misaligned memory. Think of it as finally tidying up your AI workshop so every tensor has its place.

✨ Why you’ll care:

• Smoother inference on multi-GPU setups
• Fewer crashes during heavy async loads
• Better memory cleanup = longer, happier sessions

If you’ve been battling weird memory hiccups with Llama 3 or DeepSeek-R1 on Linux/macOS/Windows — this is your upgrade. Quiet change, huge impact. 💨

Upgrade now and run like a champ.

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Lemonade – v9.0.8

🚀 Lemonade v9.0.8 just dropped — and it’s a game-changer for local LLM folks!

• FLM server hostname? Now configurable. No more fighting hardcoded defaults — deploy how you want. 🎯
• Override `llama-server` path via env vars — perfect for custom builds, containers, or weird dev setups. 🛠️
• CPU backend is LIVE! Run LLMs on CPU without GPU — ideal for dev, testing, or low-power machines. 🖥️
• Debate Arena v2 is here! Smarter, smoother multi-model debates with better eval — test personalities like a pro. 💬🧠
• Huge props to @bitgamm for their first contribution — welcome to the crew! 👏

GGUF + ONNX? Check. OpenAI API compat? Check. Windows & Linux? Double check.

Time to spin up your next local LLM experiment — faster, freer, and more flexible than ever. 🚀

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