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On Sat, 2026-08-29 at 16:50 +0100, Paul Sutton via list wrote: > So to follow on from what Giles is doing with LLMs, Open claw > > https://openclaw.ai/ > > Is an Open Source Ai assistant that could be interesting, I think > Richard was asking about Home Automation, so it lookslike this could > be > used for some automation I'm not sure an LLM would be my choice from home automation. Hannah Fry did a video on OpenClaw a few months back which was interesting: https://youtu.be/WnzR5aOElvw I hear interesting things about the latest DeepSeek model released two weeks ago, which is Open Source code, and open weight model, but the training data is closed, which surely is the ultimate in "binary blob". They have limited hardware to run the model, so are forced to optimise the performance, and are reporting massive reductions in memory usage, and compute resources, by changing the architecture. I'm not sure I want a model trained in an authoritarian state on unknown training data, but it may be more free than most LLMs. Presumably DeepSeek is trained on a Chinese Government approved subset of the Internet, or maybe not?! Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/