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UC Santa Cruz's Adam Smith on local small language models

Original: 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.

Why now: Growing public interest in local, open AI tools as an alternative to big centralized language model platforms.

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• Adam Smith from UC Santa Cruz joins us to discuss local Small Language Models (SLMs) and building open, autonomous tools. We explore his BayLeaf AI counterplatform, transagency (the "me-and-the-car" concept of human-agent collaboration), context distillation, and running models… · embedded@mstdn.social · 2

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