A general-purpose MoE multimodal beat every dedicated vision model on my father's handwriting
I assumed a specialized vision model would win. I was wrong. A head-to-head on a hard handwriting corpus ended with the general-purpose MoE on top.
Local Inference
Running real models locally on a Mac Studio that isn't new anymore
How I run a multimodal LLM on four-year-old hardware to read a family archive without sending anything to the cloud.
What family archives are for, now that the AI can read them
I have three collections of family letters spanning a century. Until recently, reading them properly would have taken years. Now it takes an afternoon.