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I ran a powerful local AI model on my laptop, and it didn’t feel like a compromise

Local AI has officially grown up ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Publishers fight Big Tech with small local language models

As 2025 closes, referrals from social media and organic search are dead or dying, and generative AI is coming for facts. But 2026 may grant publishers an opportunity Silicon Valley has persistently ...
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The best local AI model for Home Assistant isn't always the biggest one

Using a Large Language Model (LLM) with Home Assistant has a number of benefits. It can add natural language understanding, power your voice assistant, and even analyze images. A local LLM can help ...
Geeky Gadgets

Run Massive 235B AI Models Locally on This Monster of a PC System

What if you could harness the raw power of a machine so advanced, it could process a 235-billion-parameter large language model with ease? Imagine a workstation so robust it consumes 2500 watts of ...
Nature

Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change

In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...
The Hacker News

Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

An AI-driven worm using a local open-weight LLM autonomously exploited and replicated across 62% of a 33-host test network in ...