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Back to EpisodesDwarfStar compresses frontier models to run them on local machines (Daily Recap, Oct 2)
Episode 121
Published 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Description
Your daily audio briefing for October 2, 2026, covering 6 top startup stories from RuntimeWire — funding rounds, hiring signals, and product moves.
In this episode:
- DwarfStar compresses frontier models to run them on local machines
- Google puts four TPUs in orbit to test its space-compute plan
- Meta opens Muse to ESP32 gadgets and home-built interfaces
- Conductor launches an iPhone app to control cloud coding agents
- Cantina releases open-weight security model trained on 50 vulnerability cases
- FieldAI signs term sheet for $700M round at $10B valuation