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GEMS Education Unveils GR8 School, a World-First Fusion of AI, Teachers and Industry Experts Reinventing Education

World-first education model, initially operating as a “school within a school,” bringing together: Hyper-personalised AI-powered self-paced learning 1:1 support from subject teachers (human mentors), specially trained for the GR8 model Individualised pathways for personal development, connecting students to real-world expertise, experience and opportunities A blended daily learning model…

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What happens when you reject an AI agent's work in Bees

Most agent tools give you two choices when the output is wrong. Start over, or edit the prompt and hope. We wanted something in between for Bees, the open source desktop app we build that runs a team…

  • Bees uses a reviewer agent to check AI work against goals and evidence.
  • Rejecting AI work requires a reason, scoped by context (single goal vs scheduled job).
  • Reviewer's decision doesn't alter base agent for organization or its functionality.

I asked 63 models the same 76 questions, with and without web search

The 2026 standard deduction for a single filer is $16,100. I asked 63 models what it was. Asked from memory, 8 of 61 got it right. 24 invented a number, three of them landing on $8,300.

  • Only 8 out of 63 models answered 2026 standard deduction correctly from memory
  • 24 models fabricated numbers, including $8,300, when given from memory
  • 14 out of 15 models with web search capability provided correct answers

10M Batch LLM Inference at $0 Cloud Cost: O(1) Memory Clamped Architecture

High cloud API costs and Out-Of-Memory (OOM) failures in large-scale data pipelines are architectural defects, not hardware constraints.

  • 10 million-record batch LLM inference executed on local workstation
  • Memory usage clamped between 6.72GB and 9.4GB, O(1) space complexity
  • No cloud compute costs incurred, all processing local

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