Local AI guides
Run local AI on your own hardware - practical, cost-driven guides.
The only hard budget cap on agents is a box you own
Willison asked for default hard budget caps; AWS and Google shipped early versions. The cap that cannot fail open is a box you own. The per-build math.
Oct 04, 2026
GuideNVIDIA splits the Spark: 64GB at $4,999, slide math broken
NVIDIA's 64GB DGX Spark costs more per GB than the 128GB while AMD sells 128GB for $1,999. And NVIDIA's own scaling slide mixes two SKUs.
Oct 02, 2026
GuidePi 1.0: the minimal agent harness ships its 1.0
Earendil shipped Pi 1.0: 111k GitHub stars, Codemode for MCP and Jev-class deciders, and Pi Durable for long-running agents. The minimal-harness counterpoint.
Oct 02, 2026
GuideOpenAI fired its safety staff the week it shelved Astra
OpenAI terminated three members of its safety org, WSJ reports, for sharing an internal document with an outside evaluator. No statement from them exists yet.
Oct 02, 2026
GuideAmazon wants to sell $8B of its Nvidia chips to investors
Amazon is in talks to move $8B of installed chips into a fund investors own and lease back. The mechanics, the Lucent precedent, and the counterarguments.
Oct 02, 2026
GuideCloudflare ships Clef, an open decision model with pictures
Cloudflare open-sourced Clef: a 27B scoring head on a frozen Qwen3.8-27B that scores answer sets, takes images, and returns probabilities in 209 ms.
Oct 02, 2026
GuideGPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches Astra at $2/$10 per million
GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches the flagship at a fifth of the price: $2 in, $10 out, cached input halved. What the collapse does to the local hardware math.
Oct 01, 2026
GuideKev: an open decision-model family you can train yourself
Kev is an open decision-model family (0.8B to 9B) whose training recipe ships: retrain on your categories in 20 minutes on one H100, run on hardware you own.
Sep 30, 2026
GuideDeepSeek Harness: the plugin agent runtime, 239k stars later
DeepSeek open-sourced its agent runtime: the Cordis plugin core, 92,000 stars in a day, a CVSS 9.4 sandbox escape three weeks in, and the local-hardware fit.
Sep 30, 2026
GuideOllama 0.35 ships the Jev API locally: pull Nimble or Tev1
Ollama 0.35 mirrors the closed Jev API as a local /v1/systemone endpoint: pull Nimble (9B) or Tev1 (4B), ask typed questions, get probabilities in one request.
Sep 30, 2026
GuideGLM-5.3 found 4,249 vulnerabilities, for maintainers, free
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 has reported 4,249 vulnerabilities across 389 open-source projects and sends every finding to maintainers privately, for free.
Sep 30, 2026
GuideAnthropic wants $2 trillion for a $42 billion loss
Anthropic's IPO filing shows a $42B loss, $65B run rate, and $518B of cloud commitments at a $2 trillion ask - and 80 pages of doomsday risk language.
Sep 29, 2026