AI
Mistral's "Le Chonk" Packs a Trillion Parameters — and Only Wakes 49 Billion of Them Up
Mistral launched Large 4 'Le Chonk' on Oct 6: ~1 trillion parameters, just 49B active, at $1.36 per million input tokens.
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Robotics
Hugging Face Is Selling a $399 Robot Duck That Teaches Itself to Walk. The Cheapest Humanoid Costs $13,500.
Hugging Face's Microduck is a $399 open-source biped that walks, falls, and self-recovers, retrainable with reinforcement learning, while the cheapest humanoid still starts at $13,500.