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Studyforge

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built I built Studyforge , a locally hosted assessment builder for teachers, professors, tutors, and…

  • Studyforge is a locally hosted assessment builder for educators.
  • Uses Ollama with Gemma 3 270M model for offline question generation.
  • Operates as Node.js and Express app, no paid plans.

A Lab Just Open-Sourced Its Training Harness (Plus 501B Weights)

Reflection AI dropped Beam this week — 501 billion parameters of open weights under Apache 2.0. That's the headline. But here's what actually caught my eye: they also open-sourced Mirror CLI, their…

  • Reflection AI released Beam, a 501 billion parameter open-weight model.
  • Mirror CLI is the training harness, a rare move by labs to share training code.
  • Beam supports BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 weight formats for fine-tuning and pretraining.

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