A researcher at AI2 describes their transition from quantization research to coding agents, detailing how a small team of five researchers and 32 GPUs developed Sera, a method to finetune large language models on private codebases for efficient coding agent deployment. The work eventually scaled to 96 GPUs and enables cheap specialization of models rivaling larger teacher models on private data.
X users discuss stablecoins and their growing ecosystem. Kite app simplifies crypto transfers using phone numbers and email addresses instead of wallet addresses, now operating in 40 countries across Asia and the Pacific. The conversation also addresses the proliferation of stablecoins—from 30 to 700+ in regulated issuance—and Ethereum's increasing adoption of stablecoins and tokenized assets despite ETH's price lag.