Writing

Blog.

Notes on how MingLLM works, what we learned building it, and the decisions behind the product.

Making 4B models feel like 400B on your laptop

Three moves that matter: expert iteration, selective generation, and tight tool-use shaping. How we get to 94.9%.

A chat UI is the wrong default for a voice-first agent. We went looking for a better one.

What we learned from the first four weeks of persistent memory in private beta.

Cloud-first is a choice disguised as gravity. Here is what we are choosing instead.

A short postmortem of how we built the first Tensor alpha, what broke, and what we cut.

All posts by Yiming Beckmann. Specific numeric claims reflect in-progress evaluations and may shift between draft and published research.