Local models need focus and polish.
Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.
Better Models: Worse Tools
About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.
Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed
From the Zed Blog: You can run local AI models in Zed to get better performance and control over your data. Here's how.
Open Responses with local models via LM Studio
Update to LM Studio 0.3.39 for Open Responses support
Introducing Model Council
Today we are launching Model Council, a multi-model research feature that brings several models together for one answer.
Open models are decelerationist - Erlend’s notes
people and planet need open models to win
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
Muse Glimmer: Meta’s 30B Model Built for Efficient Inference
Inside Meta’s 30B local reasoning model and its tiny KV cache
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models· Ollama Blog
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
Own your AI with local models and open protocols | Tiles Blog
A Local-First Conf talk about local models, open protocols, and user-owned AI.
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
distil labs — Replace LLMs with Custom Small Language Models
Train and deploy custom small language models that are faster, cheaper, and just as accurate as LLMs.
> Making the models smarter doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem harder to see. So many relatable sentences here.
M Berk
I found this article so, so helpful at explaining why slogging through is the best way to learn (and so much more): ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
