๐ RELEASES & LAUNCHES
- NVIDIA unveils RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell workstation GPU with 84GB
NVIDIA unveiled the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell workstation GPU with 84GB of GDDR7 memory.- Designed for enterprise teams running agentic AI, physical simulation, graphics, rendering and compute workloads.
- The rack-mountable GPU includes 84GB of GDDR7 memory, fifth-generation Tensor Cores, fourth-generation RT Cores and support for air- or liquid-cooled configurations.
- It supports up to two isolated Multi-Instance GPU partitions, enabling shared workstation acceleration with guaranteed quality of service.
- NVIDIA lists the RTX PRO 5500 as coming soon, with availability notifications offered through its product page.
Sources ๐ Coverage: nvidia.com ยท ๐ via r/LocalLLaMA
๐ฌ RESEARCH
QLNI publishes 19.8 MB SHADOW 50M model with exact circuits and disk memory
QLNI released SHADOW 50M, a 44M-parameter model for offline CPU inference with disk-based memory.- The model targets developers building offline, CPU-based, browser, and edge applications.
- SHADOW 50M has 44.1M ternary parameters, a 19.8 MB deployment file, and an 8,192-token context.
- It runs at about 2,000 tokens per second in 40 MB of RAM and supports a 100M-token on-disk archive with 0.03 ms fetches.
- Built-in circuits compute arithmetic, dates, units, counting, and sorting without tools, networks, or interpreters.
๐ Source for Intern Large Models releases 397B multimodal scientific model โ x.com