{"slug": "local-code-by-draw-things-open-source-frontier-intelligence-on-your-mac", "title": "Local Code by Draw Things: open-source frontier intelligence on your Mac", "summary": "Draw Things released Local Code, a fully open-source macOS app that runs large language models entirely on-device, and published the code at github.com/drawthingsai/local-code-community. The app ships with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017, a 763B-parameter model quantized into a 376 GiB package that runs with as little as 36 GiB of resident memory at roughly 350 tok/s prompt processing and 18 tok/s token generation, suited to Macs with 64 GiB or more of RAM; smaller options include DeepSeek 4 Flash 0731 (304B parameters, 89 GiB package, 48 GiB RAM) and Qwen 3.8 27B (27B parameters, 10 GiB package, 16 GiB RAM). Draw Things says its benchmark runs closely match officially reported results with no regression in intelligence, and the app requires no external installations, sign-ins, API keys, or external MCP servers.", "body_md": "We talked about our new app, Local Code, [a few weeks ago when we launched its public beta](https://releases.drawthings.ai/p/public-beta-of-local-code-by-draw). we’re releasing it to the world and making the entire app open source. You can download it from [getlocalcode.app](https://getlocalcode.app) (with a macOS App Store release coming soon), download models from the built-in selector, and start using it today. Rather than reiterate what we’ve already written, I want to talk about what it can do and where it stands—all without external installations, sign-ins, API keys, or external MCP servers.\n\nYou can use it to generate images, videos, and sophisticated infographics with precise pie charts and bar charts, using built-in Python and `draw-things-cli`, entirely locally.\n\nYou can use it to create slides and explainer videos with rich motion graphics and animations.\n\nYou can use it to write Python or JavaScript, or simply review your code.\n\nYou can ask it to visit a website, log in with your credentials, and make an appointment.\n\nYou can connect it to your Photos, Messages, Mail, Notes, and Calendar apps, ask it to summarize their contents, or edit and reorganize them where supported.\n\nYou can ask it to update your spreadsheets, read Word documents, or make the latest required changes to a PowerPoint file.\n\nYou can trust it with your data because it runs the smartest and largest model your Mac can handle today, locally, without sending your prompts or files to a cloud AI provider. **DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017** is a **763B-parameter** model that we quantized into a 376 GiB package. Its frontier-level intelligence surpasses GPT-5.6 Sol on many benchmarks and in real-world use cases. It can run at usable speeds with as little as **36 GiB** of resident memory (~350 tok/s for prompt processing and ~18 tok/s for token generation), making it suitable for Macs with 64 GiB or more of RAM. DeepSeek 4 Flash 0731 is a 304B-parameter text-only model that we quantized into an 89 GiB package, suitable for Macs with 48 GiB or more of RAM. Qwen 3.8 27B is a 27B-parameter model that we quantized into a 10 GiB package, suitable for Macs with 16 GiB or more of RAM.\n\nWe ran the same benchmarks for these models to compare them with the officially reported results. They closely match those results, with no regression in intelligence.\n\nLocal Code is fully open source. You—or Local Code itself—can clone the repository and modify it to your liking. It’s yours. You can start building Local Code today at [https://github.com/drawthingsai/local-code-community](https://github.com/drawthingsai/local-code-community).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source-frontier-intelligence-on-your-mac", "canonical_source": "https://releases.drawthings.ai/p/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source", "published_at": "2026-10-29 10:13:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-29 10:48:38.904827+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Draw Things", "Local Code", "DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017", "DeepSeek 4 Flash 0731", "Qwen 3.8 27B", "GPT-5.6 Sol"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source-frontier-intelligence-on-your-mac", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source-frontier-intelligence-on-your-mac.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source-frontier-intelligence-on-your-mac.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-code-by-draw-things-open-source-frontier-intelligence-on-your-mac.jsonld"}}