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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next (www.tomshardware.com)
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Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

It'll happen very shortly before these companies find out how well local models compete.

Mistral is a few weeks out from releasing a 1T model nicknamed Le Chonk. Running that on consumer hardware would take some shenanigans... but these dorks are getting pretty good at shenanigans.

Any sharply reduced distillations from that will have to compete with e.g. Qwen 3.8 27B. I haven't seen it mentioned in any specific projects, but it does have Xbox 360 decomp plugins.