AI chip startup Etched hits $10.3B valuation

A r/LocalLLaMA poster asks whether any experimental models of 9B parameters or fewer are trained with engram/n-gram methods, saying none are visible on Hugging Face. They propose comparing a tiny model trained with and without n-grams on the same dataset.

AI computing networks maker Ligent Technologies is seeking up to HK$5.7 billion ($727 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering. The listing adds to a surge of AI-related IPOs this year.

A community-built MiniMax Director workflow for ComfyUI animates multiple reference images together while supporting text-to-video, image-to-video, and custom audio/voice. It was designed for low-VRAM users, generating video at reduced resolution to fit within 6GB of VRAM.

r/SunoAI users report V6 vocals sound "muddy, hollow, and suffocated," with one Pro subscriber saying they cancelled after testing all three new models. Others cite zero variety between generations and a lost "happy accident" factor; some defend V6 as their best results yet.

A Reddit plugin for Minimax H3 saves generation latents as a Safetensor file, then reuses them alongside the rendered video to extend clips. The author says this drastically reduces image degradation when continuing a video, demoing a 5-second clip extended this way.

An r/ChatGPT thread argues the biggest benefit of ChatGPT is getting past the blank page for coding, writing, learning, and planning rather than producing complete answers. The poster asks whether others use it mainly as a "get me started" tool.

A single r/ChatGPT post by user EVERYSETKILLA titled "I gave CHAT GPT complete creative control" with no article text or linked write-up. No details on the output, model version, or results are available in the cluster.