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.

Intersignal LLC today announced the forthcoming open-source release of Braid Light Client v1.4.4, a lightweight reference implementation of the Braid State Transport Primitive.

Local LLMs cost nothing after setup, but that's not the real reason I ditched ChatGPT.

Zed is a speed demon you can't ignore.

Enterprises are unknowingly accumulating confidentiality, ownership, licensing, and contractual exposure in AI-assisted code, work product, and ...

Open-source software tools continue to surge in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glimmer stakes out different ground: a dense model with native vision input, trained end-to-end around the agent loop, shipping with its own quantized variants and speculative-decoding drafter.

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

The Mac Studio, Apple’s top-of-the-line desktop, delivers extraordinary CPU and GPU performance in a surprisingly compact enclosure — but many users simply cannot add as much RAM as they need. However ...