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AIpster
An independent think tank on artificial intelligence, society, and the future of thought.
We're a collective of computer science friends from the late '90s who turned a WhatsApp group into a laboratory for exploring what AI is doing to how we work, build, and think.
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What we do here
This Hugging Face organization is where we publish the artifacts of our exploration β models, datasets, and tools that come out of the experiments we write about on our blog.
We're not a company. We don't sell anything. We build things to understand them, then share what we learned.
Focus areas
- π¬ Small specialist models β distillation, fine-tuning, and the art of making tiny models punch above their weight
- π§ Prompt engineering & routing β how prompts become infrastructure, not just text
- π οΈ Local LLM workflows β what 96 GB of VRAM can (and can't) do
- π€ Coding agents & automation β how AI is reshaping software development from the inside out
- π AI & society β the uncomfortable conversations the industry would rather skip
What you'll find here
Models
DevRouter-1.5B β our first release. A tiny prompt router that reads a raw developer prompt and returns a single JSON decision: a cleaned-up
rewrite, an intent / complexity classification, a suggested model-tier route, and the context the prompt forgot to include. Built on Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B (Apache 2.0) and distilled from a
stronger teacher, it holds ~96% valid-JSON and runs at ~280 tokens/s on a single RTX 3090 β small enough to sit in front of your real models and triage every prompt in 1β3 seconds.
- π§ aipster/DevRouter-1.5B β fp16 weights (transformers / vLLM)
- π¦ aipster/DevRouter-1.5B-GGUF β Q8_0 + F16, plug-n-play with Ollama / llama.cpp
And one honest caveat, because we ship those too: Q6 and below quantizations break its JSON. A small model doing strict structured output is far more fragile than the "Q4 is fine" rule of thumb suggests β ship Q8_0 or F16.
Phi-4-mini-instruct abliterated Β· MLC q4f16_1 β an uncensored Phi-4-mini (3.8B), abliterated to remove refusal behavior and quantized to 4-bit MLC format for in-browser inference via WebGPU. This is the model that powers the top-tier slot in our Local AI Playground β a browser tool where LLMs run entirely on your GPU, no server involved. Built from huihui-ai's abliteration of Microsoft's Phi-4-mini (MIT), converted with MLC-LLM's source-built toolchain after the pip nightly broke on linux. ~2.1 GB download, ~3.4 GB VRAM. Sovereignty as a feature, not a slogan.
- π§ aipster/Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated-q4f16_1-MLC β MLC q4f16_1 weights (WebLLM / MLC-LLM)
Datasets
Coming soon β curated and synthetic datasets from our distillation experiments, released alongside the models that use them.
Spaces
Coming soon β interactive demos of our experiments.
Read our work
- π Blog
Articles
- π§ͺ How we built our distillation pipeline (coming soon)
- π Four GPUs, Two Weeks, and the Uncomfortable Truth About Local LLMs
- π€ I Stopped Learning n8n. I Just Told My Coding Agent What I Wanted
- πΈ Two Hours to Mass Extinction: What Coding Agents Mean for the Open-Core Business Model
- π€ Six Fallacies That Break Agentic AI Systems (And How to Design Around Them)
- π΅π» The AI "Web Search" That Quietly Decides What You're Allowed to Find (part 2 is already here)
Up-to-date information
Every day, we provide a summary of what is shaking the AI ecossystem up. It include.
Tutorials
Local LLM series
This series deal with running LLMs locally and some theory behind LLMs.
- π Introduction - Provide some introductory tips on how to get start in the world of local LLMs;
- π The Brain, the Engine, and Your First Llama on Ollama - Teaches how to make your first model online. Also deal with how transformers work and the relation between a model and an inference engine.
- π From terminal to a ChatGPT style chat - Teaches how to install Open WebUI to provide a Chat GPT like interface. Delve into multimodality and how a model can seamlessly understand text, audio, and images.
- π The facts and the reason - Teaches how RAG works and the impact of context in the token probabilities
- π Does size really matter? - Teaches what, besides parameter count, impact how well a model perform
Philosophy
We build to understand. We share to learn together.
Everything we publish here is open. Code, weights, datasets, methodology β including the failures. Especially the failures.
Get in touch
- π Website: aipster.com
- π¬ Email: contact@aipster.com
Independent. Curious. Slightly skeptical.