Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Getting a local language model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.

We’ve all done it before: a simple project that escalated to the point of extreme overengineering. But what’s less common is ...

LM Studio is entering the agent business. Bionic allows open models to be used locally or via the cloud to control a Mac or PC. The creators of LM Studio, a popular GUI tool for running local language ...

LM Studio has always been a great way to use local models on the Mac. Its Model Search tool lets users easily check which available models are best suited to their Mac’s specs, and the app has been ...

You’ll soon be able to access your notebooks in AI Mode, too. You’ll soon be able to access your notebooks in AI Mode, too. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, ...

LM Studio’s Locally app is being updated today with LM Link, a feature that lets users talk to LLMs running on their Macs right from their iPhones. Here are the details. LM Studio is my go-to Mac app ...

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing us a a ...

Generative AI may be both the most useful and the most mystifying tool of our modern-tech era. The problem—aside from all the endlessly documented issues around accuracy—is that generative AI ...

This desktop app for hosting and running LLMs locally is rough in a few spots, but still useful right out of the box. Dedicated desktop applications for agentic AI make it easier for relatively ...

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively ...

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