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A smartphone screen displaying a command-line terminal interface

someone let their phone's AI install its own software. it actually worked — with a catch

An Android app called RikkaHub Agent turns a phone into a local-LLM-powered agent that can write code, run Linux commands, and compile software on its own — as long as you keep saying yes.

Priya Nair · Aug 9 · 8 min

A Raspberry Pi single-board computer, the kind of hardware Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B can run agentic AI tasks on

A new AI model just ran real agent tasks on a Raspberry Pi — no GPU, no cloud bill, nothing

Liquid AI's new LFM2.5-2.6B beats models four times its size at tool-calling and runs entirely on-device — down to a Raspberry Pi. Here's what that actually means before you cancel your GPU shopping.

Lena Fischer · Aug 8 · 8 min

A small ESP32-S3 microcontroller development board on a workbench, the $8 chip now capable of running a 28.9-million-parameter AI language model.

Hardware

someone got a real ai talking on a chip that costs less than your coffee

A hobbyist just proved a genuine language model can run entirely on an $8 microcontroller — no cloud, no GPU, no internet connection required.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 6 · 6 min

A Raspberry Pi single-board computer on a dark surface

how to run a local AI on a Raspberry Pi — a pocket-sized offline chatbot for $80

Yes, you can run a real language model on a Raspberry Pi 5. It won't be fast, but for a tiny, private, always-on AI it's genuinely fun and useful. Here's how, and what to expect.

Lena Fischer · Aug 3 · 10 min