Huntsville AI

Spring Social
2026-04-01 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Back Forty Beer Company, 3254 Leeman Ferry Rd SW, Huntsville, AL, 35801, United States
Good evening!
It’s time for our Spring Social! The forecast looks like rain, so we’re going to get together at Back Forty Beer Company. There’s a lot of room inside, and they also have good food.

Virtual Paper Review - Gemma 4 & TurboQuant: Fitting New Models on Your Hardware
2026-04-15 18:00 - 19:30
Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! Google released the Gemma 4 model family and TurboQuant KV cache compression about a week apart. We’ll look at what’s actually new in the architecture, how TurboQuant holds up against its claims, and walk through fitting these models across different hardware.
Part I – Foundations

KV cache: what it is and why it’s the bottleneck for long contexts
Per-Layer Embeddings: why half the parameters “don’t count”
Sliding window + global attention and the 5:1 hybrid layer approach
Quantization tradeoffs from fp16 down to sub-4-bit

Part II – Deep Dive

Gemma 4 architecture: what matters for local deployment
TurboQuant: the algorithm, the claims, and what implementations show
Live experiments across RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX 5090, A6000 Ampere, Mac M3 Pro
Fine-tuning with Unsloth/TRL on local hardware

Links:
Gemma 4 Model Card: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/model_card_4
Gemma 4 HF Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma4
TurboQuant Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874
Details:

Date – 04/15/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/acw-zrnm-akn

NVIDIA GTC and Hackathon Approach
2026-04-22 18:00 - 19:30 | HudsonAlpha, 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL, 35806
This week we have Tom Plunkett reviewing his recent experience at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference and winning the associated hackathon. We will be in the Executive Conference Room this week.
Here’s the breakdown of what Tom plans to cover:

What I saw at the NVIDIA GTC conference in San Jose March 16-19.
Competing and Winning the GTC Hack to Create Hackathon with vibe coding, DGX GB10, OpenClaw, and other technologies.
Creating a first draft of a patent application using Gemini Pro 3.1 Preview and other AI technologies.
A high level examination of Databricks AI/ML Strategy

Previous Meetups:
I finally got the recordings posted from our last two meetups:

Gemma-4 and TurboQuant – https://hsv.ai/2026/04/15/gemma-4-turboquant/
AlphaFold 3 – https://hsv.ai/2026/03/25/alphafold-3/

I didn’t get the video started for AlphaFold at the very beginning, so it picks up about 5 minutes into the presentation from Alexa.

Links:

https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/ – many of the sessions are available to watch

Details:

Date – 04/22/2026
Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/gsv-zhtr-yah
