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TWiT 1093: California Sober - Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, & China's Open-Weight AI Gambit

Explore episode Jul 20, 2026

Technology is fun again. Leo just laid out a 7 different way approach just to get an open source voice model to tell him, Leo, I've completed your task, in a British accent. This is fun, the homebrew stuff that we used to really want, and now there's cool tech.

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Leo's Fully Sentient Smart Home: Agents That Email Each Other and Talk Through Sonos

TWiT 1093: California Sober - Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, & China's O… · Jul 20, 2026 Technology

Leo Laporte has built a home agent called Quicksilver that talks through Sonos speakers in every room, listens via Apple Watch, routes through Tailscale, detects which room he's in, and has multiple AI agents email each other code review results. Alex Wilhelm's verdict: technology is fun again.

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