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Joshua Wendt

Articles by Joshua Wendt on AI implementation, workflow automation, and software engineering.

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Insight3 min read

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B: A 9-Billion Parameter Model Beating 120-Billion

Alibaba's new small model series proves that running frontier-class AI on a laptop isn't a distant dream — it's happening now.

Technical guide21 min read

Small MoE Models: How Sparse Routing Makes Efficient AI Possible

Small-scale Mixture of Experts: sparse routing lets 47B models match 70B dense equivalents. Mixtral, DeepSeek-MoE, Phi-MoE, efficiency math.

Insight4 min read

Block Just Cut 4,000 Jobs Because of AI. The Numbers Are Staggering.

Jack Dorsey says AI efficiency is driving Block to slash 40% of its workforce. The real story is what comes next.

Insight4 min read

How AT&T Cut AI Costs by 90% With Small Language Models

AT&T processes 8B tokens daily on specialized small language models, cutting AI costs ~90% without sacrificing capability. How the architecture works.

Insight3 min read

Perplexity Computer: A $20B Bet on Model Specialization

Perplexity Computer orchestrates 19 models in one agent. Models are specializing, not consolidating — multi-model orchestration, not commodities.

Insight4 min read

GGML and llama.cpp Join Hugging Face: What It Means for Local AI

GGML creator Georgi Gerganov joins Hugging Face to secure the future of local AI inference. A landmark open-source move.

Insight6 min read

Nano Banana 2: What Flash-Speed Image Generation with Web Grounding Actually Means

Google's Nano Banana 2 combines Pro-quality image generation with Flash speed and search grounding. What the architecture implies.

Technical guide32 min read

AI Video: From Diffusion to Directors

How AI video generation works: diffusion foundations, temporal modeling, audio sync, and the multimodal architectures behind Seedance 2.0.

Insight5 min read

OpenAI's Frontier Alliance and GPT-4o Sunset

OpenAI signs multiyear deals with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini for its Frontier AI agent platform, and retires five older models.

Technical guide27 min read

How AI Benchmarks Actually Work

The benchmarks behind AI model claims: SWE-bench, ARC-AGI-2, GPQA Diamond, and more. What they measure, how they work, and what they miss.

Technical guide23 min read

Agentic AI Architecture Patterns

A guide to agentic AI patterns: ReAct loops, tool-use protocols, multi-step planning, memory, and multi-agent coordination in production.

Technical guide32 min read

Mixture of Experts: Sparse AI Architectures

MoE architectures explained: gating mechanisms, expert routing, load balancing, and why sparse models deliver frontier AI at fraction cost.