IBM Granite 4.2 Fits 128GB. That Is Not a Bench.
IBM posted Granite 4.2 on Aug 25: Apache 2.0, dense 3B/8B/30B, thinking switch, 128K native. Official 30B BF16 is 58.55 GB of weights. That fits a GX10. I have not timed it.
2 min read•Aug 25, 2026
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llama.cpp 0.3.0 Is a Tag, Not a GX10 Bench
ggml-org tagged llama.cpp v0.3.0 on Aug 25. It adds dots3-note, GLM-4.5-Air MTP, DeepSeek 4 -sm tensor, and a moov-at-EOF video fix. A GitHub tag is not a GX10 number.
2 min read•Aug 25, 2026
SpaceXAI's Vera CPU Is a Factory Plan, Not a Grok Bench
NVIDIA posted Aug 24: SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPUs, expand Grok on Vera Rubin toward gigawatts, and plans a Starmind satellite on NVL72. SpaceXAI did not post it. A press release is not a receipt.
2 min read•Aug 24, 2026
Grok 4.6 on Google Is Preview, Not a New Scoreboard
SpaceXAI posted Grok 4.6 on Google's Model Garden Aug 21. Google's card says Preview, grok-4.6, global endpoint, 13 QPM. Same $2/$6 as Bedrock. Still not a bench.
2 min read•Aug 24, 2026