The Archive

IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters

Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.

IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners

25 August. 3B, 8B, and 30B, trained from scratch on about 15 trillion tokens. A thinking switch. Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face, Ollama, and GitHub.

Catch, then the ship

A Caesar five, Morse from the pad, and a tiny A-is-1 reflight.

Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall

Tesla told JPMorgan in August that the Optimus Gen 3 design is finalized, the supply chain is essentially locked, and a production line is going into Fremont’s old Model S/X facility.

Sparks inaugurates the Semi plant on 24 September

Tesla Semi posted on 24 August that the dedicated factory in Sparks, Nevada, will be inaugurated on 24 September. The 158,000-square-metre plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year. The first high-volume Semi left the line in April.

Tesla told JPMorgan v15 runs on AI4

At Fremont in August, Tesla called FSD v15 a step-change the size of v13 to v14 and said the AI4 computer already in the car can run it unsupervised.

The houses of faith got the work

Washington named nearly two billion dollars for faith-based health and disaster partners, the largest such global-health allocation in more than twenty years. World Vision and Compassion are on the sheet.

Turin unfolds the legs

ESA posted the Turin test on 6 August: four landing legs, two pairs, less than a second. Rosalind Franklin is starting to look like a landing.

The churches are counting themselves

The eighth National Church Life Survey is open through October. Twenty-one denominations are in. Late congregations can still sign the sheet.

Pad 40 hands Florida Starlink to Starship

The last planned Falcon 9 Starlink from Florida left SLC-40 at 5:33 a.m. Tuesday. The pad is not retiring. The constellation is changing vehicles.

NASA books Falcon Heavy for Europe’s Mars rover

The Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation project is in implementation. The launch is late 2028 from 39A — likely SpaceX’s first throw at Mars.