Charles Muehlberger
Founder of Conifer, Local-first least cost routing system to reduce 80%+ token spend
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Charles Muehlberger is listed as a founder of Conifer. Conifer is one app that connects you to every AI model (local and cloud) and automatically routes each request to the cheapest model that accomplishes your goal. Most requests run free on your own hardware, so teams cut their AI bill by ~80% while replacing a dozen provider contracts with one interface and one invoice. For sensitive material like financials or user data, a secure mode pins everything on-device with no external API calls.
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Fresh essay on scaling laws. Sara Hooker spent years inside DeepMind and Cohere watching scaling laws get treated as gospel. Then she wr...
Fresh essay on scaling laws. Sara Hooker spent years inside DeepMind and Cohere watching scaling laws get treated as gospel. Then she wrote down the heresy: Falcon 180B was state of the art in 2023. One year later it lost to a model 22x smaller. The $700B question isn't whether...
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Kimi beats Fable and Sol in Code Arena!!
Kimi beats Fable and Sol in Code Arena!!
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So many great points, but the error-correction piece is the one people will underrate. LeCun's (1−ε)ⁿ doom assumes per-step errors are ii...
So many great points, but the error-correction piece is the one people will underrate. LeCun's (1−ε)ⁿ doom assumes per-step errors are iid and absorbing, which they're not. Trained agents learn a restoring force back so long horizon behavior looks like a mean reverting walk. 👏
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Pretty frustrating using Claude this month. Models seem slower, constantly hitting guardrails, and burning tokens. Planning is still supe...
Pretty frustrating using Claude this month. Models seem slower, constantly hitting guardrails, and burning tokens. Planning is still superior, but definitely stresses the need for multi model setups
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Kimi K3 Benchmarks - seriously where is for profit in 18 months
Kimi K3 Benchmarks - seriously where is for profit in 18 months
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This is bad. What’s worth noting is Hugging Face used Chinese models to combat the attack due to guardrail restrictions on domestic model...
This is bad. What’s worth noting is Hugging Face used Chinese models to combat the attack due to guardrail restrictions on domestic models. With the frontier becoming less of a duopoly and more populated it makes sense for many companies to switch from the American labs, which...
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We just launched Juniper! Try it at http://conifer.build
We just launched Juniper! Try it at http://conifer.build
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662 Sharpest point imo: every time we call a capability "emergent," we're quietly...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662 Sharpest point imo: every time we call a capability "emergent," we're quietly admitting scaling laws can't predict what's coming. That's a strange foundation for trillion-dollar capex. From where I sit in inference...