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- 1UC Santa Cruz's Adam Smith on local small language models●Adam Smith from UC Santa Cruz joins us to discuss local Small Language Models (SLMs) and building open, autonomous tools
Adam Smith of UC Santa Cruz is discussing the case for running small language models locally rather than relying on large cloud providers. He presents BayLeaf AI, described as a counterplatform, along with the concept of "transagency" — a human-agent collaboration model he likens to the relationship between a driver and a car. The conversation also covers context distillation and practical approaches to building open, autonomous AI tools that users control themselves.