News · Local & Open
Donate coding sessions to train open models
A new push to crowd-source real coding-agent transcripts, so open-weight models aren't locked out of agentic training data.
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Local & Open
9 pieces on local & open — practical workflows, case studies and field notes.
News · Local & Open
Nemotron 3 Ultra: America's best open model
NVIDIA's new 550B reasoning model is the strongest US open-weights release yet — and it ships with the weights, the training data and the recipes. It's not the global frontier, but it's the most open one going.
Explainer · Local Inference
Fine-Tune Gemma 4 with Unsloth
Unsloth's new fine-tuning guide for Google's Gemma 4 open model family puts a bespoke model inside reach of small teams.
Explainer · Productivity
Google releases a free iPhone dictation app
Google has quietly shipped an iPhone dictation app that runs speech-to-text on the device itself — no subscription, no audio leaving the phone. The trade-off against paid cloud tools.
Explainer · Local Inference
Gemma 4 on Your Own Hardware: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Start
Google's Gemma 4 models run on hardware a small business already owns — and they can see images, use tools and reason. Here's the plain-English guide: what's new, why it matters, and how to get started.
Local Models · Benchmarks
Qwen 3.6 Might Be the New Local Default for a 24GB GPU
A 27B model that reportedly tops consumer-hardware leaderboards and fits in a single 24GB card at Q4. For a sole trader or a small professional-services team, that is the sweet spot worth understanding.
Tooling · Comparison
LM Studio vs Ollama in 2026: which local runtime for a small team?
Both run open models on your own hardware. The right pick has less to do with benchmarks than with who on your team will actually be using it.
Tooling · Hardware
Running local AI on AMD in 2026: ROCm finally earns a seat
AMD's software stack spent years as the awkward alternative to NVIDIA. In 2026 it is a credible cost play for a back-office team — provided you check a few things first.
Tooling · Local Runtimes
Ollama v0.24 adds the Codex app and gets faster on Apple Silicon
May 2026's runtime updates look like housekeeping. For a solo operator running models on a MacBook, they quietly remove some of the friction that makes local AI feel like hard work.