Open Source AI Finds Its Moment in a GPU Thermal Paste Thread

The AI community’s public discussion of open source deployment focuses on model licenses, fine-tuning APIs, and benchmark scores on Chatbot Arena. These conversations occur in forums where the hardware thread carrying the water does not appear. The Vega 56 plus Ryzen 3600 combination is absent from r/MachineLearning, the Hugging Face blog, and Bluesky AI discourse. Yet it is the configuration that Ollama’s issue tracker, Reddit’s r/LocalLLaMA, and llama.cpp’s documentation recommend for users who want to run 7B models without cloud costs ^[1]. The discourse about model release timing and licensing…