







Air gapped intelligence, local LLMs, and the case for private AI
Flower: Advance Collaborative Superintelligence
Flower is a full-stack AI neolab with a mission to advance collaborative superintelligence by building open-source frontier models, agents, and infrastructure.

The Obvious Case for Open and Local AI — Osaurus
AI is a step change in what one person can do—but the power is being rented back to us. Here's the case for intelligence you can run, inspect, and keep.

Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters

How To Think About AI (with Cory Doctorow)
AI might just be useful once we get through the huckster phase.

AI, Ethics, and Society — Home
Lightcone Research
An open ecosystem for inspectable, composable, and referenceable scientific research in the age of agentic AI.

TILOS HOT-AI Workshop: The Architecture of Intelligence with John Doyle
driaforall/mem-agent · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer
What laws does superintelligence demand?

AI That Evolves in the Wild | Edge.org
I’m interested not in domesticated AI—the stuff that people are trying to sell. I'm interested in wild AI—AI that evolves in the wild. I’m a naturalist, so that’s the interesting thing to me. Thirty-four years ago there was a meeting just like this in which Stanislaw Ulam said to everybody in the room—they’re all mathematicians—"What makes you so sure that mathematical logic corresponds to the way we think?" It’s a higher-level symptom. It’s not how the brain works. All those guys knew fully well that the brain was not fundamentally logical.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...

[Keynote 04] AgentSociety: Exploring Large Language Model Agents for Piloting Social Experiments
Quiet, My Exoself
Someday real soon, most of us — starting with young adults — will carry an always-on AI.


Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev
Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed

Running local models is good now