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The Hidden Costs of ‘Free’ Cloud AI Tiers

Analysis · 9 min

A free cloud AI tier does not cost zero. It costs something other than dollars: your data, your…

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02

What ‘Agentic’ Actually Changed for Local AI

Insights · 10 min

The word 'agentic' gets thrown around until it means nothing. Stripped down, it is one real shift: a…

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03

Local-First Deep Research vs the Cloud

Insights · 10 min

A research engine that runs on your own machine can keep every query private and charge nothing per…

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04

Open WebUI vs Jan: The Local ChatGPT, Picked

Insights · 9 min

Two ways to put a private ChatGPT in front of someone. One is a feature-rich browser workspace, the…

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05

smolagents vs OpenJarvis: Which Agent Framework, for What

Analysis · 10 min

Two agent frameworks, one well-tested and one still on our bench. smolagents is the antidote to framework bloat.…

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Is Local AI Good Enough to Replace the Paid Tools?

Insights · 10 min

For most of what you do in a day, local AI is already enough. For the hardest problems,…

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Google releases DiffusionGemma, an open model that generates text up to 4x faster № 053 · Notes
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Google releases DiffusionGemma, an open model that generates text up to 4x faster

Google's experimental open model swaps word-by-word generation for parallel diffusion, reaching 1,000-plus tokens a second on a single GPU.

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