https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/projects/strata/ Material changes in AI models, agents, engineering and infrastructure, with primary sources and recommendations. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:00 GMT https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/events/ev-20260924-12/ ev-20260924-12-published Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:02:19 GMT New TRIAL <p>Strata is an MIT-licensed inference engine that distributes Qwen3.8-Flash-Next experts across GPU, RAM, CPU and SSD. It exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible local endpoints and documents a 12 GB GPU, 32 GB RAM and about 80 GB SSD floor. Author benchmarks report 60–94 output tokens per second on recent gaming GPUs.</p><p><strong>Why read: </strong>Strata brings a very large sparse model to consumer hardware with strong adoption.</p><p>Recommendation: TRIAL</p><p>Sources: <a href="https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata">Strata local MoE inference engine</a></p>