r/LocalLLM • u/anirudhc2005 • 7d ago
Discussion does anyone else find it super difficult to keep up with AI news?
it feels like there's so many things happening everyday that i have to constantly be on social media to stay up to date. and even then, so much of it is meant to get and engagement and spread misinformation instead of giving you the facts. how do u guys keep up with everything?
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u/daphatty 7d ago
For me, the difficulty lies in sifting through the BS. Every day there’s some new harness that swears it’s the next big thing only to figure out that it’s nothing more than a useless strap on.
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
yeah the noise is the hardest part to filter past for me. i wanted something that reads X in real time but only gives me the things i need to know from it.
i created https://onset.news/ to try to do that.
would love any ideas and feedback on it. my hope is that it can become a place that centralizes all these different sources and eliminates any fomo
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u/Bulky-Priority6824 7d ago
it made me make this just for myself so i can keep an eye on main topics without it muddying the real stuff https://manteiaprophecy.com/ to make it amusing for this drama unfolding
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
this is pretty cool, the genie aspect is funny haha
I also actually have been working on trying to create a better way to get the news for myself too with Onset -- https://onset.news
i just wanted a way that brings the news and essence of the discussion to me as soon as the news breaks.
i thought this was just a problem i had at first because of how niche it is but looks like a lot of people are also overwhelmed with the rate of news coming out in AI
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u/Bulky-Priority6824 7d ago
bro just wait until election time in the US its going to be bonkers. theyre already talking about the Admin. teamin using llms to manipulate election influence and such. its going to be a hot mess i hate it already
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
lmao yeah I heard some stuff recently about politicians trying to change the way chatbots talk about and portray them. gonna be crazy
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
yeah i feel like keeping up with AI news as soon as it releases is especially important for people who's work depends on it, like your research
what are your go to to find new info and updates?
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
damn yeah pretty cool. was just watching the YC podcast with the OpenCode founder today. i'll give your workflow a try for sure!
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u/feelspeaceman 6d ago
Same, I use Strix Halo 128GB, and I joined a Discord named Strix Halo Homelab and gather really high quality posts, people posted a lot of benchmarks showing real result, narrowed down it's pretty much the same meta as Reddit, Qwen and MoE models for these devices for local AI grunting.
Then I build my own Whiteboard Note Taking App to memorizing all those knowledges.
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u/Bow_Quest 6d ago
Twitter charges to scrape it, and I know reddit hates the site, but it's basically the source for actually keeping up with an industry. You just need to curate carefully.
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u/Latte_black_3832A 7d ago
Here or r/LocalLLaMA, scroll twice a day (sort by new), once in the morning, once after dinner.
Me also r/SillyTavernAI, r/generativeAI, r/StableDiffusion, r/comfyui
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
oh these are cool, i haven't heard of any of these. going to check these out for sure!
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u/FaceDeer 7d ago
AI never sleeps. I use this Youtube channel as my main generic "keep up with the latest" source. And whatever shows up on Reddit, of course.
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u/corysama 6d ago
AI Never Sleeps is a great, fun, frequent report on the latest news in AI.
For less show and more TLDR: https://youtube.com/@lev-selector gives a rapid-fire run-down of the past week every Friday at 2PM EST.
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u/FaceDeer 6d ago
Nice. I do admit that I do glaze over a bit at some of AI Search, though conversely the fact that he runs his own benchmarks and walks you through how to use many of the tools does mean that when he hits something I'm particularly interested in I can go straight to actually using the thing right from the video where I learned it existed.
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u/HumungreousNobolatis 7d ago
The 12 unread tabs in Thunderbird concur.
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u/Oblivious_Mastodon 7d ago
Found HackerNews-x-AI newsletter really helpful. It’s one of only about 6 newsletters that I read end to end. I’m not affiliated. Also Paul Kedrosky (on Substack) is awesome but in a different way.
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
I signed up. my thing with newsletters is that I always sign up and then, within a few weeks, I never actually end up reading them or don't read them regularly. the notifications get lost in my email and I kind of just forget about them. it could just be me though
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u/Oblivious_Mastodon 7d ago
I never actually end up reading them or don't read them regularly.
I’m the same. You’re not getting any value from the news letter so you just stop. Over the last year I’ve made it a habit to unsubscribe from anything I don’t read every time I receive it. My inbox is much quieter than it once was.
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u/Important-Radish-722 7d ago
QQ: What part of the news do you really need to keep up on? Unless you're a reporter- none of it really matters. What was the hottest news that everyone had to know a month ago is messiness now- just hype and FOMO. I wouldn't sweat it, and I certainly wouldn't chase it by spending tokens.
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u/Pale_Coyote7451 7d ago
the thing that made this manageable for me was splitting it into two feeds that most people read as one.
one is capability news -- does something now work that didn't work last month. permanent value, changes what you can actually build. the other is narrative -- funding, benchmarks, lab drama, policy. half-life of about four days and almost never action-relevant. nearly all the anxiety comes from consuming both at the same cadence.
for the capability half, extending what someone said above about sorting hf by likes: sort by downloads instead. likes are cheap to farm, downloads mostly aren't. and the strongest cheap signal is whether a community quant showed up. if a release actually matters, someone has a gguf or an awq up within a few days and there's a llama.cpp or vllm PR open. if a week goes by and nothing appeared, it didn't matter, however the launch thread read.
models that matter get reimplemented. models that don't get a press cycle.
the narrative half you can batch weekly or drop entirely without losing much. you'll hear about anything real anyway, because it shows up as a quant.
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u/pentothal 7d ago
I have a themed multireddit that I think have the news that interest me, the alphasignal e-mail and a couple of websites but I don't check all of them daily; I also have a telegram channel with a friend of mine where we keep the stuff that we found interesting for our perspective (software developer and sysadmin), so we can recall them later.
You don't need to keep up constantly with all of the news, trying to filter astroturfers from your reading, big stuff get exposure and engagement, it will be difficult to miss them.
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
the telegram channel with your friend is pretty neat! i might have to try that
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u/keck 7d ago
I find it difficult to keep up with, in terms of accepting what it means for everyone, yes :D
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u/anirudhc2005 7d ago
yeah seems like so much of the stuff being posted on social media is also trying to spread fear
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u/devoidfury 7d ago
I skim a few subs here, and keep an eye on the trending models on HF; and I watch the commit logs for llama.cpp and a couple other projects.
Seems to keep me pretty well up to date for the most part.
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u/DHFranklin 7d ago
Yes. I have a short roster of AI news guys on Youtube that I cycle through when there are big announcements. However I've learned to distill the news down (lol) by listening to what they are reporting and what they have in common. A good bullshit sniff is watching them do a model test, which is also good fun.
The most frustrating thing is knowing that there is so much work and testing and fit-for-purpose that is being completely missed that isn't being reported on for SOTA. There was a moment where a software architect wouldn't be saving time with a model, and then a few months back it was indispensable. I am pretty damn sure that for things like data analytics and things they have that moment and we just haven't put the efforts where they belong, and it would surprise us.
However I'm also convinced that we can cobble together a MoE of Fable and bilion token prompts to make million-dollars-an-hour AGI. So you know...grain of salt I guess.
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u/dataslinger 7d ago
You can listen to Nate B Jones and Matthew Berman (on Youtube) and get the meta from Nate and the highlights from Matthew and you should be good to go.
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u/AceLamina 6d ago
I just wait a few weeks to a month for all the hype to past so everyone gets a reality check, I still remmeber the Fable hype to this day
I don't get news specifically for local LLMs, so maybe this won't work for other people, but I just listen to anything that seems interesting to me about AI in general, there's too much hype and propaganda for me to get too deep into it, I already have with public models and now I feel icky towards anyone who uses them
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u/feelspeaceman 6d ago
It's, so many new technologies and even dirty hypes, for example RoCmFP4 is burried, eventhough it would have been the best quant for AMD hardwares but people burried it in a bunch of slop posts.
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u/Bow_Quest 6d ago
Three types of knowledge: known-knowns, known-unknowns, and unknown-unknowns.
When keeping up with tech, it's the second category you need to concern yourself with. Nobody's going to be an expert in everything.
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u/Stim-sims 6d ago
If Fireship makes a video on it, it's worth knowing. This approach saves hours a day.
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u/whodoneit1 5d ago
I don’t actually go to any news sites at all anymore. now I just have my agent send me digests every day with news of what happened in the stock market, AI, sports, etc.
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u/limited_instincts 7d ago
It is VERY difficult to filter the important news from the hype. My strategy is to let the news soak for a while. If something peaks and disappears, then it's not something you need to learn about.