tl;dr — Week 47, 2025

Rushing this one a bit since I didn't really find the time to properly follow up and the list of interesting things I read sat idle for a while.

Still wanted to post about the following nice reads:

2x Performance, $300k Savings: A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust

Wu Xiaoyun’s portfolio page

Short & sweet insight on using two high performing languages side by side at Tiktok

Cloud models · Ollama Blog

Cloud models are now in preview, letting you run larger models with fast, datacenter-grade hardware. You can keep using your local tools while running larger models that wouldn’t fit on a personal computer.

I saw this one pop up and hoping for a use case where I can try it out. Using the same CLI and API as local models installed via Ollama, you can now also offload the compute to their (supposedly) secure & private cloud platform.

👏 This is an important moment for the React ecosystem. React and React Native are moving from Meta to a new React Foundation, a vendor-neutral organization that will steward React’s future and… | Expo

👏 This is an important moment for the React ecosystem. React and React Native are moving from Meta to a new React Foundation, a vendor-neutral organization that will steward React’s future and support the broader community. Expo is honored to be a founding member along with Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Vercel, Callstack, and Software Mansion. The React Foundation will: ♢ Maintain React infrastructure like GitHub, CI, and trademarks ♢ Organize React Conf ♢ Support ecosystem projects through grants and community programs We’re proud to help shape React’s next chapter as it becomes even more open, collaborative, and community-driven. https://lnkd.in/dZuVgu3B

LinkedInExpo

What has always been implicit has now been made explicit: React Native is owned by the consortium of companies driving it for the last few years. Meta is taking a more formal/reviewing role and most notably Callstack, Expo, Software Mansion are driving development forward from now on.

Upgreat AI - Building Sustainable Compute Solutions

European AI infrastructure with sustainability, sovereignty, and developer experience at the core. Powered by renewable energy in Belgium.

Sustainable, Sovereign AI Compute PlatformUpgreat AI

I was super impressed by seeing Upgrade Estate dip their toes in the cloud & AI waters here in Belgium. They're quite the cool & innovative company, and seeing them think about building a competitor to cloud hyperscalers and the AI moguls, with a heightened focus on sustainability is something that I'm personally a very big fan of and curious to see how it further develops.

epfl-llm/meditron-7b · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Learned about this by listening to the AI podcast from EPFL / Marcel Salathé. Though it's already a bit older I still found it very cool to see an LLM specifically trained for the medical space.