llm

7 articles · newest first

Mark Zuckerberg speaking about Meta's AI strategy

meta just promised to open-source the AI model that actually rivals GPT and Claude

Muse Spark 1.2 isn't the laptop-sized model Meta gave away last week — it's the one built to fight Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 head-on, and Zuckerberg just said it's going free too.

Lena Fischer · 6d ago · 6 min

Meta AI branding on data center server infrastructure, representing the company's open-source AI model push

Meta just open-sourced a 30B AI model that beats Google and Alibaba's best — for free

Muse Glimmer runs on a single consumer GPU and, per Meta's own numbers, beats Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B at agentic and coding tasks — and Zuckerberg used the release to make his most pointed case yet for open AI over the API-gated kind.

Lena Fischer · Aug 10 · 7 min

A desktop PC with a mid-range graphics card installed, the kind of 8GB hardware this guide is written for

your 8GB graphics card can run real local AI — you're probably picking the wrong model

Phi-4 Mini, Gemma 3, and Llama 3.2 all claim to fit — I checked which one actually leaves room to breathe.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 6 min

rows of server infrastructure representing large-scale cloud computing

Hardware

Alibaba just open-sourced a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model — good luck ever running it yourself

it beats Claude on some benchmarks and rivals GPT on others, and it's free to download next week. here's the hardware math that ruins the fun.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 7 min

Rows of Nvidia data center GPU servers, representing the AI infrastructure spending Kimi K3's release rattled

China just dropped an AI model so good it erased $590 billion off Nvidia in a day

Kimi K3 is free to download, runs about 70% cheaper than Claude per token, and it just proved open-weight AI doesn't mean second-rate anymore.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min

An AI chat interface running locally on a computer

how to get a free, private ChatGPT alternative that runs entirely on your own computer

You don't need a subscription or an account to have a capable AI assistant. Free, open models running on your own PC give you private, offline, unlimited AI — here's how to set one up.

Lena Fischer · Jul 30 · 9 min

A cloud GPU workstation for fine-tuning AI models

the best cloud GPU for fine-tuning an LLM costs about a dollar — here's the one to rent and why

Fine-tuning sounds expensive until you realize you can rent the perfect GPU for it by the hour. For small models a 4090 does it for pennies; for bigger jobs an A100 is the workhorse. Here's the cheapest path.

Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 9 min