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Raising the compute for the Aeon ULTIMATE fine-tune of Qwen Next Flash: B300 and B200 hardware reserved for the whole run. Larger models need more VRAM and more time, and subscriptions help fund the hardware too.

Raising the compute for the Aeon ULTIMATE fine-tune of Qwen 4 27B: B300 and B200 hardware reserved for the whole run. Larger models need more VRAM and more time, and subscriptions help fund the hardware too.

Raising the compute for the Aeon ULTIMATE fine-tune of MiniMax M3.1 Flash: B300 and B200 hardware reserved for the whole run. Larger models need more VRAM and more time, and subscriptions help fund the hardware too.

Raising the compute for the Aeon ULTIMATE fine-tune of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: B300 and B200 hardware reserved for the whole run. Larger models need more VRAM and more time, and subscriptions help fund the hardware too.

A guided tour of the AEON Forge catalog: NVFP4 models for the DGX Spark, MLX builds for Apple Silicon, the voice stack, the media tools, the Orb and the Bench, with the article to read first in each group.

Two native MLX builds of Qwen 3.6 27B AEON Ultimate for Apple Silicon: which Mac fits the 29.5 GB 8-bit or the 16 GB FP4, why the SSM, vision tower and MTP head stay BF16, the 1.78x lossless self-speculation, and a uv quick start.

A Pimoroni Presto touchscreen as a desk-side home-lab dashboard: ten swipeable screens, two optional backends for a GPU box and an agent gateway, and rear LEDs that match the screen. The parts, the wiring, the setup, and what broke.

Two MLX builds of Gemma 4 12B AEON Abliterated for Apple Silicon, 13.4 GB and 9.3 GB, served through an OpenAI-compatible API by one pasted uv command: what an M4 Pro measures, how images and speech go in, and why the quantization recipe is mixed.

An experimental vLLM image that serves DeepSeek-V4-Flash across two DGX Sparks at tensor parallel 2 over RoCE: the seven GB10 gaps it patches, why PIECEWISE graphs are the rule, what the numbers do and do not prove, and a two-node quick start.

A slim vLLM image for the RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, why it must never be crossed with the DGX Spark image, what changes on a 32 GB card, four serving recipes for a 27B NVFP4 model, and the WSL2 fault that passed every test.

AEON vLLM Ultimate for ROCm is a vLLM 0.31 image that serves Qwen3.8-27B AEON ULTIMATE in MXFP4 and MXFP6 on AMD GPUs. It covers what is built, why the stock path decoded at 1.7 tok/s, what is still unmeasured, and how to test the 2x R9700 recipe.

AEON vLLM Ultimate is vLLM built from source for the DGX Spark's GB10 and shipped as one 18.3 GB image that serves the whole AEON fleet with speculative decoding and NVFP4 weights. Here is why it exists, what broke on the way, and how to pull and run it.

The Aeon Magick Orb is a Raspberry Pi that plugs into a computer's HDMI and USB ports so an AI agent can see the screen and type, click and reboot, with nothing installed on the target. How it works, what broke on the way, and how to build one on a Pi 4 or Pi 5.