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Open-Weight Models

Every ChicagoNoSnow review, comparison, and guide about Open-Weight Models — no hype, just receipts.

Verdict

Colibri Runs GLM-5.2 Locally on 25GB. Here's the Catch.

A single-file C engine is streaming a 744B-parameter model off an NVMe drive on hardware you already own. I read the repo like an SRE — the receipts are real, and so is the speed tax.

Micah Berkley · Jul 19, 2026

Explainer

Fable 5 Is Back. The World It Left Isn't.

The export ban is over and the flagship is back online. But watch the shape of the return — frontier AI now comes with a guest list, and that structure isn't going anywhere.

Micah Berkley · Jul 2, 2026