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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 releases Glimmer AI model that runs privately on your own computer
The new 30-billion parameter model can manage your schedule, files and messages without sending data to the cloud. But Meta's most powerful AI stays firmly under its own control.
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, all 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 truly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. It's a big claim worth thinking through carefully.