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IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

IBM has rolled out the newest models in its family of open-weight large language models designed to be downloaded and self-hosted. The newly launched Granite 4.2 comes in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants. Like previous versions, IBM is taking a decoder-only approach here. These new releases offer a 128,000-token context window natively. The 8B

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Sector Snapshot: Legal Tech Funding Down Slightly From All-Time High 

If AI legal tech funding was a baseball game, this might be roughly the fifth inning. One already has a sense of top-performing players and which team is in the lead. Nonetheless, it’s much too early to confidently call a winner. It’s been a rapid progression to get here. In the past two years, venture

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World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Viral videos of the World Humanoid Robot Games show sprinting robots beating the human 100-meter record held by Usain Bolt—but also feature running robots crashing into barriers and falling down because they cannot readily stop running. A few fallen robots even break at the waist in a shower of sparks or catch on fire. That

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