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A lab for people who run ai locally

# we care about the technical stuff — local inference, quantization, throughput, and the silicon underneath it.

# we’re not here to get rich. but electricity isn’t free and the next GPU won’t buy itself — so someday we’ll sell a thing or two to keep the lab powered and the hardware coming.

# until then it’s a discord, and it’s free. come tinker.

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A Launch80 Meet-Up is coming.

A few days of local inference in one room — hardware, quantization, throughput, and the people who actually run this stuff. We’re working out the city and dates now.

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