Hob pitched as open-source on-device alternative to Claude and ChatGPT
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Block unveils Dessa, a speech-only conversational AI model
Block says it runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better and will give safety researchers early access.
Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight 40B coding model
Flint is a mixture-of-experts model with 2.5 billion active parameters, aimed at local coding agents.
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AnyLanguageModel 1.0: one year of local models on Apple platforms
The available item is only the title, with no description of features, models, or availability.
Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
Simon Willison locally retests Qwen3.8 27B on summing numbers and answering in words.
Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
Hacker News discussion argues Apple Intelligence is a marketing umbrella for disparate long-standing ML features, explaining why iOS 27 lacks a disable switch.
Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs
Microsoft's Project Zenith delivers a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience running 30B+ parameter AI models locally on 64GB+ unified-memory PCs, starting with AMD Ryzen AI Halo.