The Kimi K3 architecture figure for yesterday’s big open-weight model release, along with some observations and thoughts. Yes, it looks relatively complicated, but it’s essentially a scaled-up production version of their Kimi Linear model they released last year (scaled up … Read more
Popular 230B coder that opts for a classic architecture instead of the newer hybrid-attention ideas. Scale 230B total, 10B active Date 2026-02-12 Decoder type Sparse MoE Attention GQA with QK-Norm Key detail Deliberately avoids sliding-window or linear-attention hybrids while keeping … Read more
WTF moment: Why my native OS refuses to return a “True” value. 🔴 The Glitch In Episode 03 of my psychological thriller, Script in the Audience, there is a trivial moment where a character makes a correct deduction. In English, … Read more
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It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. … Read more
The Armv9 architecture has a lot of technical enhancements to commend it, but as far as Arm Holdings, the creator and licensor of the Arm architecture, is concerned one of the best features of Armv9, which was first unveiled four … Read more
You may be wondering who we are and why we wrote this book. At the end of Harry’s last book, Test-Driven Development with Python (O’Reilly), he found himself asking a bunch of questions about architecture, such as, What’s the best … Read more
React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm! In the 0.76 release blog post, we shared a list of significant changes included in this version. In this post, we provide an overview of the … Read more
Stephen Gardiner The Architecture of London Pubs .In the mid-sixties, architect and writer, Stephen Gardiner, wrote recurrent socio-cultural architectural analysis for The London Magazine. This installment, on the state of that bastion of so-called English cultural activity, the pub, originally … Read more
The Architecture of Open Source Applications Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually … Read more