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Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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The first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019.

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