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In this week’s newsletter, we’re exploring an open source version of OpenAI’s powerful new research agent, Elon Musk’s bold $97 billion bid to take over OpenAI, and how Assembly programming can transform your coding perspective.

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🤔 Understanding Reasoning LLMs
One major breakthrough in LLMs this past year was the rise of reasoning models, refined to tackle complex, step-by-step tasks like puzzles, advanced math, and coding. While this specialization improves problem-solving, it doesn't replace other applications and comes with trade-offs. This article breaks down four key approaches to building reasoning models, as well as some of the drawbacks.

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🆓 Someone build an open-source version of OpenAIs $200 deep-research
This AI-powered research assistant combines search engines, web scraping, and large language models to perform deep, iterative research on any topic. It esentially works as an open-source version of Openai’s new deep research mode.

⚒️ How Learning Assembly Changed my Programming
Higor Dinis shared how learning Assembly transformed his understanding of programming. It simplified concepts like memory management and made pointers finally click. While Assembly isn’t practical for large projects, its small, broken-down instructions offer a clear view of how computers work. Here’s how it made him a better software engineer.

⁉️ Elon Musk-led group makes $97 billion bid for control of OpenAI
Elon Musk's consortium has offered $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit controlling OpenAI, aiming to stop its shift to a for-profit model. In response, Sam Altman fired back on X, saying, "No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.".

📁 Running ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes
This blog explains how to run ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes, enabling you to contribute to web archiving efforts.

Your own AI Cloud: Deploying AI Models in Kubernetes Homelab

In this video, I'll show you how to deploy and use any open-source AI model in your Kubernetes homelab environment with a full-featured GUI, a domain with TLS to serve it to your home network, and a look at creating knowledge bases and RAG implementation.

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• No AI December Reflections.

• Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models.

• “We are destroying software”.

• You are using Cursor AI incorrectly...

• The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers.

• When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster.

• The ultimate guide to Git.

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Until next week,

Travis.