The practical implication of "non-custodial" on-device AI is essentially that we will need specificity in every area. Frontier models like Claude and Chat are general-purpose multi-TB behemoths but we can realistically only fit a 7Gb model on the average phone, so it'll have to be specialized and fine-tuned. Your healthcare AI will be tuned very differently from your travel & logistics AI, for instance.

I don't really have the $100,000 that it'd cost to buy and colocate 2 H100s and 2 A100s, but for less than $10/hr I can rent 4 of them this weekend! To recap what I'm up to: I'm trying to train a tiny LLM to tutor grade school kids on Tagalog and Bisaya science lessons. The whole thing needs to fit on an entry-level Android phone worth 5,000 pesos or less and MUST work without an internet connection. Probably the hardest engineering challenge I've ever personally embarked on, but I am again absolutely shocked and inspired by how much research, tooling, and infrastructure is out there for people to build on small budgets. Built with @qvac @tether

Claude Fable did something today that genuinely impressed me. I'm building app that touches on biology, and although it's a totally benign use case, @AnthropicAI 's ultra aggressive AUP filters kept blocking it. So when Fable realized it couldn't directly execute on this one part of my app, it downloaded @Alibaba_Qwen 3.5, ran it locally via llama-server, and outsourced the task!

Nice to be back on the overseas meetup circuit! Catch you again soon Singapore! Thanks for the fun evening @ambergroup_io @coinbase Triple-A, 1982 Ventures, TalinoFoundry.com ❤️🇵🇭

Last week I started building something for @qvac's "Unleash Edge AI" hackathon. Turns out it's probably the hardest engineering problem I've ever personally tackled: I'm trying to build an AI science tutor for Filipino and Bisaya-speaking grade school kids, that works on an entry-level Android phone without an internet connection. On the face of it, the idea sounds easy, coz any 2025 version of ChatGPT or Claude could do this without breaking a sweat. But those flagships require ONE TERABYTE of memory, whereas I'm targeting $90 Android phones with just SIX GIGABYTES of memory. Figuring out how to build something that is factually accurate (no hallucinations!), linguistically stable (doesn't revert to English when it's stressed!), and pedagogically engaging (actually acts like a tutor!) ... all with a 3GB memory footprint is super challenging. I'm calling the app "hiraia" (after an archaic Filipino word for "vision" or "imagination") and I designed this cat to keep the user entertained during the lengthy LLM loading times 😅🐱🇵🇭 @tether dorahacks.io/hackathon/2151/…

Dear Injap Sia, MS Copilot comes free with all Windows machines now. Surely you could've written a better opening sentence than that.

Lovely talk on PH Blockchain adoption at @AIBC_World. 🎙️ Speakers: @helloluis and @heypaulroots

Because everyone else is tokenmaxxing, when actually we should all be tokenminimizing.

Humans-in-the-loop, I can't keep up with the pace anymore.👨‍💻

Recent adventures in vibe coding with bleeding edge LLMs. Something tells me @Alibaba_Qwen 3.7 Max still needs a bit more hardening ...

The correct way to think about the $640k Ferrari Luce is that it costs less than @steipete spends on tokens each month.

Talking about @Binance and Blockshoals and @SEC_Philippines tonight! youtube.com/live/87_xBp1_-n0…

Were they giving away Pi tokens?

The facts as we know them: 1. @Binance is reentering the Philippines thru Blockshoals, which was granted sandbox access by the @SEC_Philippines . 2. Blockshoals' owners are currently also involved in various Romualdez-owned businesses. 3. Both Binance and Romualdez have been associated with alleged money laundering activities in the past here in the Philippines, as recently as Nov 2025. (See ICI investigation into the flood control funds and how they were exiting the country.) Does it mean Romualdez is actually behind Blockshoals? Not necessarily, but if we put all those facts together ... surely this is something worth looking into more deeply? PS. The Binance website reportedly became accessible again here in the Philippines earlier today (although not on my Converge home connection) ... what a rollercoaster of a day it must have been for the local team!

Curio Cards was created as the first curated Art Gallery on Eth with exactly this idea in mind. In 2017, artists from different cities and countries came together to educate people about blockchain through art, promote Digital Art as a medium, and create a more direct path between artists and collectors. For example, Luis Buenaventura / Cryptopop, one of the Curio artists, became the first Filipino NFT artist to have work sold at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s. And part of his royalty earnings later went toward his non-profit initiative supporting aspiring Filipino artists 👏

Inevitable reveal 🧐

Played around with @justinsuntron 's @BAI_AGI and genuinely surprised that people are still launching tool-less LLMs in 2026. 😬

Introducing Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, early preview of our next flagship model ·Improved agentic coding capability over Qwen3.6-Plus ·Stronger world knowledge and instruction following ·Improved real-world agent and knowledge reliability performance Smarter, sharper, still evolving.

Pitched an education idea here that I've been thinking about for awhile. Basic premise: the pricier the Claudes and ChatGPTs get, the further behind the rest of the world becomes. We need to plow more resources into cost-efficient inference ASAP!

another reason why i'll never get into Philippine politics: i hate doing cardio.