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Apple Runs a Nearly-Trillion-Parameter AI Model Across Four Mac Studios Using Thunderbolt Cables
A cluster of four consumer desktop computers now generates text faster than you can read it, and the electricity bill stays under 300 watts per machine.
Running AI on Your Own Computer Is Getting Easier. Here Is What to Expect.
Privacy concerns are pushing more people toward local AI, software that runs entirely on your own machine instead of the cloud. The experience is genuinely promising and genuinely rough around the edges.
Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts a Full AI Workstation in a Portable Chassis
The Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping October 16, runs on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and can hold up to 128 GB of shared memory, letting one machine handle gaming, local AI models, and professional creative work at the same time.
Hugging Face Lets You Run Compressed AI Models on Your Mac With One Line of Code
Hugging Face has built GGUF support into its Transformers library, letting Apple Silicon Mac users load and run lightweight AI models at speeds matching dedicated local-AI apps, no special setup required.
The Creator of oMLX Joins Hugging Face to Push Local AI Forward on Apple Devices
Jun Kim, who built and maintains oMLX, is now a full-time Hugging Face hire. The move puts serious muscle behind the open-source toolkit that lets Apple Silicon chips run AI models without a cloud connection.
KDE Turns 30 and Someone Wants to Build AI Into the Desktop Itself
A proposal at this weekend's KDE conference in Austria imagines a desktop that learns who you are and rebuilds itself around you. Not everyone will love that idea.
Ugreen Wants to Run Your Entire Smart Home From a Box in Your Living Room
A new platform called HomeAgent keeps your cameras, files, and AI assistant local, meaning your data never has to touch the cloud. No monthly fees, either.
Nvidia's Free PAIR Software Lets Every PC in Your Home Share the AI Workload
A new tool from Nvidia pools the spare computing power sitting idle across your laptops, gaming rigs, and even a MacBook into one shared AI system, no new hardware required.
Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip Powers the First Wave of AI-Focused Laptops and Mini PCs
New machines from Lenovo, Acer, Asus and others promise enough power to run AI entirely on your own hardware, no internet connection required. Prices will be steep.
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, an AI agent that runs entirely on your own machine
Built with Nvidia, the new product lets an AI agent handle hours of document work without sending your files to the cloud or charging you per task.
A 27-billion-parameter AI model you can run at home just matched cloud-only rivals on coding tests
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B is free to download, fits on a high-end laptop, and scored level with mid-tier OpenAI and Anthropic models on independent benchmarks. Developers are calling it the clearest sign yet that frontier-grade AI is moving off the cloud and onto personal hardware.
Firefox Gives Its AI Assistant Live Web Access and a Memory for Your Browsing History
Mozilla's opt-in Smart Window feature can now search the web in real time and help you retrace pages you visited before, with zero data kept by default.
Meta's Muse Glimmer Is a 30-Billion-Parameter AI You Can Run on Your Own Machine
The new open-source model sees images, understands video, and can act as a personal assistant without sending your data to a cloud server.
Should Your AI Help You Do Anything You Ask, No Matter What?
A prominent tech founder says a properly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. The argument is wilder than it sounds, and more interesting.