Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
General Instinct, a YC-backed startup, has released a method to compress massive frontier AI models to run on edge hardware like robots. By using aggressive quantization on specific model components and on-policy distillation, they achieved high performance on a significantly smaller memory footprint.
Why it matters
This technology enables advanced AI capabilities to function locally on physical devices without relying on cloud connectivity, which is critical for robotics and edge computing.
Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices | Hacker News
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