A developer's guide on SelfHostStack demonstrates how to replace paid AI subscriptions like ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro with a self-hosted setup using Open WebUI and Ollama on a low-cost VPS. The arti…
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 18.9, released August 11, adds Copilot thinking effort controls and Ollama local model support, addressing credit spend from usage-based billing. Thinking effort lets us…
A developer compared Qwen2.5-Coder and DeepSeek-Coder for Solidity smart contract review, running both models locally via Ollama on WSL2 at 7B and below. The developer found that Qwen2.5-Coder followe…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has halted its second fundraising round, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The decision pauses what was expected to be a significant capital …
A developer built a fully local AI stack combining coding assistance, a RAG system, and voice interface in 38 minutes using Ollama, AnythingLLM, and Open WebUI, with no cloud API reliance. The setup p…
A developer shares seven key lessons learned from building modern AI agents with Neo4j, GraphRAG, Aura Agents, and LLM Mesh. The lessons cover graph databases, persistent memory, GraphRAG vs. traditio…
A developer reports that accessing DeepSeek's API from outside China is now practical through third-party gateway services that provide an OpenAI-compatible interface. The DeepSeek V4-Pro model matche…