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Udgam Labs Trains 152M Chat Model From Scratch for $146
October 23, 2026
Udgam Labs trained Laghu, a 152M English chat model, from scratch for $146.26 of pretraining compute and published the code, data, failed runs and costs.
Read moreKRAFTON AI’s Raon-1 Mini Preview Puts 30B MoE on a Single RTX 5090
October 22, 2026
KRAFTON AI’s Raon-1 mini preview is a 30B-A4B MoE under Apache 2.0, with NVFP4 weights for a single RTX 5090 and a DFlash2 draft model claiming up to 2.18× throughput.
Read moreNVIDIA RFD4-Proteina Cuts Protein Design Time 3.8x Over RFD3
October 21, 2026
NVIDIA and the Institute for Protein Design released RFD4-Proteina, an open model that co-designs protein sequence and structure. At 200 residues, NVIDIA reports 3.8x faster generation and 84% less peak memory than RFD3.
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Guides

Your Docs Chatbot Cited the Handbook and Still Got It Wrong
October 23, 2026
Your AI chatbot doesn’t memorize your files. It searches them on every question and writes from whatever it found. Here is how that works, and where it breaks.
One Timestamp Turned a $422 Bot Bill Into $1,863
October 21, 2026









