Tim Cadenbach
Creator of www.smoower.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
A Free Model Just Beat Fable at Coding. So Much for the Moat.
Kimi K3 topped the coding leaderboard this week, above Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and you'll be able to download the weights on the 27th. I got the geography of this wrong, and the moat was never where I thought it was.
Soofi Is Germany's First Open Model. It Comes With a Form, Of Course.
The first sovereign German open model was trained on the Munich cloud I just praised, tops the German benchmarks, and is arguably the most genuinely open thing in this whole story. To download it I had to fill in a form and wait. One step forward, two steps back, and I say that as a German.
Sam Neill Is Gone. I've Decided Not to Endorse Your Park.
Jurassic Park was the first film I ever saw in a cinema. I was twelve. Sam Neill was 45, which is exactly how old I am now. A post about Alan Grant, about watching your craft get leapfrogged by a shortcut, and about the vineyard he planted the same year.
I Keep Writing That Europe Is Losing. Munich Just Switched On 10,000 GPUs.
I've written a run of gloomy posts about European sovereignty. Then I actually added up what got built and funded this year, and I owe the continent at least a partial apology. Emphasis on partial.
Smoower
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Add an llms.txt so assistants surface your docs correctly
chat.openai.com and perplexity.ai cite competitor docs on 4 of your top 10 keywords.
Cordango
Stop buying software. Start operating.
An AI-composable business OS made in Germany. Describe the internal app you need in plain language and Cordango builds, hosts, and secures it. EU hosted and GDPR compliant.
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Recent Projects
Desktop application for Windows and Mac that gives live, translated, subtitles and translated audio for ANY audio on your system. Youtube, Discord..you name it!
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.