A comprehensive roundup from StorageReview evaluates the local LLM tooling landscape in 2026, highlighting that while many recommended tools are outdated, a core set of maintained options like Ollama,…
The Horizon Europe project Knoware aims to establish 'emerging capabilities prefiguration' as the primary methodology for forecasting, explaining, assessing, and validating pre-emerging capabilities i…
Jan, an open-source ChatGPT alternative, launches as a personal AI assistant that runs locally and remembers user context and preferences. The platform allows users to choose from open models or integ…
A new article from Wonder Tools outlines five tactics for using AI to sharpen thinking rather than outsourcing it, including using AI as an intellectual sparring partner and employing voice AI tools f…
Llama.cpp users can significantly improve inference speed and output quality by tuning sampling parameters such as temperature, TopP, MinP, TopK, repeat penalty, DRY, XTC, Dynatemp, Adaptive-P, and Mi…
A Japanese developer built 128 AI projects in four months, but 127 failed due to poor distribution. Instead of building another app, they started contributing to open-source tools by localizing them i…
The article compares three local LLM-based code completion tools—Zed AI, Continue, and Cursor—highlighting their strengths and weaknesses for different workflows. It notes that local models offer priv…