Local AI by VRAM: Which Models Fit Your GPU (August 2026)
Find your VRAM tier, then the current open-weight pick for chat, coding, vision, speech, translation or agents. Fourteen guides, one index.
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Run an LLM Locally on Android and iPhone (August 2026)
Apple caps its on-device model at 4096 tokens per session, and Google's own tables put Gemma 4 E2B at 25.0 decode tokens/sec on an iPhone 17 Pro CPU.
Run LLMs Locally on a Mac: What Actually Fits (August 2026)
Apple Silicon has no discrete VRAM, so tier guides mislead Mac owners. The real ceilings are bandwidth and the GPU-usable slice of unified memory.
GGUF vs AWQ vs GPTQ vs MLX: Which Quantization to Use
Quantization formats compared with real file sizes and bits per weight. Why Q4 does not halve a model, and why low quants generate faster.
MiniMax-M3 Lands in llama.cpp: Sparse Attention and Vision
Two back-to-back merges add MiniMax Sparse Attention and a Qwen2.5-VL style vision tower to llama.cpp, but every existing MiniMax-M3 GGUF must be regenerated.
VKUE: Can a 34.7B Reasoner Run on a Laptop Without a GPU?
VIDRAFT_LAB posts Ourbox-35B-JGOS to Hugging Face: 20 tok/s on an 8GB laptop GPU, ~17 tok/s on a CPU-only server, 86.4% on GPQA Diamond.
llama.cpp Joins Hugging Face: What It Means for Local AI's Future
Georgi Gerganov's team is now at Hugging Face, unifying the model hub with the inference engine that powers Ollama, LM Studio, and the entire local AI ecosystem.
Open-Source AI Wins: OLMo Hybrid Rewrites Efficiency, Karpathy Ships Research Agents, and Local Tools Level Up
This week's open-source highlights: AI2's hybrid architecture proves transformers need help, autoresearch automates ML experiments overnight, and local inference gets serious upgrades.
The Week Local AI Grew Up: Ollama 0.17 and llama.cpp's New Home
Ollama delivers 40% faster inference while llama.cpp finds a permanent home at Hugging Face. Two developments that secure the future of running AI on your own hardware.
Open-Source AI Wins: ggml Joins Hugging Face, GLM-5 Goes MIT, NanoClaw Hits 14K Stars
This week's biggest open-source AI developments: llama.cpp finds a permanent home, China releases a 744B parameter model under MIT license, and a secure WhatsApp AI assistant goes viral
llama.cpp Joins Hugging Face: Local AI Gets a Corporate Backer - and Keeps Its Independence
The creators of llama.cpp have joined Hugging Face to ensure long-term sustainability. The projects stay open, the community stays autonomous, and local AI gets resources it needs to compete with cloud inference.