Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has become an essential capability for many AI-powered applications. Whether it is transcribing meetings, generating subtitles, or enabling voice-based interactions, ASR is increasingly becoming a core feature of modern AI systems. As part of my ongoing learning journey with AI technologies, I decided to start exploring the ASR capabilities available today. My first stop is Qwen3-ASR, one of the latest speech recognition models from the Qwen family.

Serving LLMs with Dev Containers: A New Rabbit Hole One of the interesting things about working with AI is that you often discover new ideas when you’re exploring something completely different. I never imagined I would write about serving Large Language Models (LLMs) using Dev Containers. Although I’ve been using the vLLM container for quite some time, I always thought of it simply as another containerized application running in Kubernetes or Docker.

Quantization techniques were mentioned in huggingface and unsloth, and I used those quantized models in ollama and llama.cpp. I always wonder how to implement it for vllm. Today I learnt to use llmcompressor to optimized models for vllm. import warnings warnings.filterwarnings("ignore") import os, gc, math, pathlib import torch from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM import warnings os.environ['TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM'] = 'false' MODEL_DIR = "Qwen3-0.6B" OUTPUT_DIR = "Qwen3-0.6B-W4A16" print(f"Base model: {MODEL_DIR}") print(f"Quantized model: {OUTPUT_DIR}") from llmcompressor.