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On October 21, 2026, IBM published an update to its Granite Speech models on the Hugging Face blog: it added granite-speech-5.0-2b and updated two existing models, Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus. All three are released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Read article ↗Kaggle gives registered users free cloud compute in Notebooks. According to the official documentation, the GPU quota is 30 hours per week (sometimes higher, depending on demand and resources), and TPUs are capped at 20 hours per week. A single session can run for up to 12 hours on CPU or GPU and up to 9 hours on TPU, with 20 GB of auto-saved disk space.
Read article ↗The latest offering of Stanford CS336 "Language Modeling from Scratch" is the Spring 2026 term. Its course website, YouTube lecture recordings and GitHub assignments are all public, so you can follow along for free. The five assignments begin with writing a tokenizer and a Transformer.
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