This article discusses the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab's 'Tourist Policy' and how it impacted students' access to its resources. As a high school student in Maryland, the author shares their experience of using the lab's PDP-10s over the ARPANET and how it inspired them to learn and contribute to the MIT community.
Podman AI Lab is an open source extension for Podman Desktop that allows users to work with LLMs on a local environment, featuring a recipe catalog with common AI use cases, a curated set of open source models, and a playground for learning, prototyping, and experimentation. It uses Podman machines to run inference servers for LLM models and supports various formats like GGUF, Pytorch, and Tensorflow.
