Update: Meta’s 816B Muse Spark Open Runs on Three Old Omarchy Laptops and a Mac Studio
Update to my earlier post, Meta’s Muse Spark Open: 816B Open Weights, Two Mac Studios. When Meta released the weights, Mark Zuckerberg said the model “runs…
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Follow AI & Agents via RSSGNOME’s Moose 0.6: Local AI Chat With Ollama, Now With Cloud Options
Moose is a GNOME-native AI chat app built on GTK4 and libadwaita. It started as a local chat app and has grown into cloud providers too.…
MeshXFS: A Clustered File System Where AI Wrote All the New Code
Here’s one that’ll start arguments. MeshXFS is a GPL-2.0 POSIX clustered file system where, per its creator Steve Shoecraft, “no human wrote any of its own…
Apertus 1.5: Swiss Fully Open Models Get Vision, Audio and 262K Context
The Swiss AI team published full release notes and a technical report for Apertus 1.5, the update to its fully open 8B and 70B models. The…
ColGrep-Agent: A Local 2B Model That Cuts Claude Code’s Tokens by a Third
Coding agents burn a lot of tokens just figuring out where to look. LightOn’s answer is ColGrep-Agent-2B, an open 2-billion-parameter code-search agent that runs locally between…
Update: Ollama 0.40.6 Is Out, and 0.40.7-rc0 Brings Responses Effort and PPLX Decider
Update to my earlier post, Ollama 0.40.5: Nemotron 3.5 Super and Bolt for Local Agents. Ollama has moved on twice since then. Ollama 0.40.6 (stable, Oct…
How a Daily Research Bot Fits Into an AI Agent Team
I wrote up the overall pattern in Running a Team of AI Bots With Grok Bot. This one zooms in on a single piece: the research…
How-To: Running a Team of AI Bots With Grok Bot
Instead of one AI doing everything, you can set up a small team of bots that each own one job. Here’s the general pattern with Grok…
Ollama 0.40.5: Nemotron 3.5 Super and Bolt for Local Agents
Ollama 0.40.5 shipped on October 14, 2026, and the headline is NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 family landing for local (and cloud-adjacent) runs. Super is the big sibling;…
NVIDIA RTX Spark PCs Are Available for Local AI on Windows
October 16, 2026: NVIDIA says RTX Spark laptops are available today from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI. The pitch is Blackwell RTX + CUDA/AI…