JD Desmarais
Director of Pre-Sales, ProTech Services Group · Memphis
Twenty-four years in infrastructure. I run AI models on hardware I own, I like teaching people to use them, and I think AI is a tool, not a companion.
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AI news Protesters broke into a Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam.
Memphis A principal faced arrest for child sex crimes while a missing Maine teen may head to the Memphis area.
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Today's big stories
More on the HubAnthropic develops new internal AI model called Inkling
Anthropic trained a model called Inkling 2 Small in 68 hours that outperforms existing benchmarks.
Protesters enter Microsoft data center construction site
Activists broke into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam to protest.
Meta faces allegations of running AI deepfake ad fraud
Documents suggest Facebook knowingly ran AI deepfake scam ads generating significant fraudulent revenue.
Airbnb develops a new AI travel planning agent
Airbnb is building an AI agent to assist users with planning their travel itineraries.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
The Wire
All 30 days- ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluationHugging Face
- Amazon will let you text Alexa your shopping listThe Verge
- Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in AmsterdamThe Verge
- I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.MIT Tech Review
- Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR LeaderboardHugging Face
- OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projectsThe Verge
- Airbnb is working on an AI travel agentThe Verge
- Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenueHacker News
- Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for workThe Verge
Who's driving
I've worked in IT since 2002: network manager at Bellevue Baptist, systems engineer at ProTech Systems Group, datacenter and capacity planning at FedEx, and now pre-sales at ProTech Services Group. I run Qwen models on a Mac with MLX and LM Studio, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin for edge projects. My wife Amanda and I have taught students at Bellevue Baptist for more than ten years.
Why dice81. Dice was my white 1988 Volkswagen Cabriolet on black tires. 81 is the year I was born. The gauges up top are a nod to its dash.