Opus Crammed into a Single Device in 7 Months: Edge AI Explosion Accelerates
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-05
Prominent AI commentator teortaxesTex marvels at the staggering pace of edge AI development: in just 7 months, the capabilities of massive models like Opus have been compressed to run on a single device (like Spark).
He suggests that the next milestones will depend on two factors: A) whether the ongoing intelligence explosion is aggressively weaponized (or commercially capitalized), and B) whether the people who matter maintain decent airgapping discipline to mitigate potential loss of control.
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