Open the site, pick a model (about 0.6B to 8B), hit Load. The weights run in that tab, on that computer. After they load, the network can drop. The context window is a working set, auto-sized to that device, up to ~32K tokens.
Behind the window is the Weave. Every file, picture, recording, link, lookup, and reply is embedded as it arrives. Drop in audio and it is transcribed. Drop in an image and it is described. A question pulls the nearest passages back as notes. A long document is walked once so later questions can use the whole file, not the first pages.
Nothing leaves that tab unless you turn on live lookup or connect a rented GPU box, and the chat says so each time. Prompts can go to the box. Files and the Weave stay in the tab.
Console on that page: bw.ask, bw.search, bw.digest, bw.notes. A local relay exposes /v1/chat/completions on localhost so other tools on the same computer can talk to the tab. The tab polls the relay. That is the boundary.
Not a server with a policy. Your hardware, a window, a Load button.
If on mobile add to home-screen for best performance. If you break it lmk. It can serve a few hundred of you at a time before I have to buy a real server.
SO-ARM 102 goes open source in the next few weeks.
What's new: - A parallel gripper: the jaws stay parallel through the whole stroke instead of pivoting around the object as they close. - PET-CF instead of PLA+ for a much stiffer frame. - A topology-optimized structure. - Wider joint rotation and folding range. - STS3250 servos on the first shoulder joint.
Compared with the SO-ARM 101, that adds up to 2.5x the payload, roughly 2x better positioning accuracy, roughly 1.6x the movement speed, and about 36 mm more reach.
It runs on Hugging Face LeRobot, so the same tooling, training pipeline and tutorials for the SO-ARM 101 work on it from day one.
My (really ugly) thoughts on NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face I don’t care if you love me or hate me – something about one of the most open community efforts ever to achieve the tagline “The community building the future“ getting gobbled up by a company that arguably is the biggest hardware monopoly that has ever existed strikes me as deeply unsettling. I don’t like monopolies, and that is that. The whole appeal of HF for me personally was always having a neutral location where anyone could develop, deploy, and test a model on their silicon of choice without being pushed into a single “official“ proprietary infrastructure stack.
I am not going to pretend that I would believe NVIDIA “open and independent“ is ever going to happen – hell we have all heard the same lines dozens of times from every corporation that has ever uttered them before.
When the single biggest producer of compute also is one of the primary locations where all open weights live, it becomes very hard not to imagine where all of this is going to end up soon enough if we continue to let companies dictate the narrative. It might be the hyperbole but it is an absolute truth for me – open-sourced AI cannot be a slave to the whims of a trillion dollar company. It is high time we realize that open AI cannot live and breathe only on the goodwill of corporate entities.