Thrilled to announce I was able to independently replicate some of the results in arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07101. Good news for local finetuning w/ MLX. The thread below covers the details - but in summary, Adafactor & Adam perform similarily for local fine-tuning at BS=1. More below:

.Relace has raised $23M to build the rails for AI code generation. This round is led by a16z, with participation from Matrix and Y Combinator. LLMs have proven they can write code—but scaling that code into production still needs better infrastructure. Relace is

Everyone says they want general-purpose robots. We actually mean it — and we’ll make it weird, creative, and fun along the way 😎 Recruiting PhD students to work on Computer Vision and Robotics UMD Department of Computer Science for Fall 2026 in the beautiful city of Washington DC!