I love this opensource project! Someone just put a... 28.9M parameter AI model on an ESP32-S3. A chip that costs only a few dollars. No cloud. No API. No internet. It runs locally at ~9.5 tokens/s and can generate stories on a tiny screen. This changes the way we think about AI hardware. The next generation of AI toys, robots, and IoT devices may not need the cloud at all. Small chips are getting smarter. 🤖show more

for everyone who still doesn’t believe you can run... local AI on an ESP32: here’s the same class of chip booting an entire operating system. Windows XP boot screen. welcome screen. the Bliss wallpaper. and, of course, an error dialog😁 we went from fitting a 28.9M-parameter language model into an ESP32-S3... to recreating the full Windows XP experience on a tiny 240×240 display. the era of "microcontrollers are only good for blinking LEDs" is overshow more

forget the $699 AI pins. this $8 chip just... shattered the barrier for local AI hardware. a developer just forced a 28.9 million-parameter LLM onto a standard ESP32-S3 microcontroller. it costs roughly 8 dollars, runs completely offline, and draws the power of a single LED. conventional wisdom said a model of this size simply would not fit. the chip only has 512 KB of fast SRAM and 16 MB of flash. the breakthrough is architectural. the developer moved the bulk of the embedding table into flash memory and memory-mapped it. the chip only needs to pull about 450 bytes per token, keeping the active working memory inside the fast SRAM. this means you can now embed a capable language model into a physical node for the price of two coffees. and we are already seeing the beginnings of this custom physical hardware. in the video, a creator built a minimalist voice-controlled universal remote using an ESP32. it captures voice and remotely controls the computer over bluetooth LE. he simply says "open chrome and open 20 new tabs", and the custom hardware executes it instantly. we have spent years watching model sizes explode upward. but the true frontier is the opposite direction. when an eight-dollar chip can power offline intelligence and custom physical interfaces, AI becomes local infrastructure rather than a cloud service.show more

Holy shit... Microsoft open sourced an inference framework that... runs a 100B parameter LLM on a single CPU. It's called BitNet. And it does what was supposed to be impossible. No GPU. No cloud. No $10K hardware setup. Just your laptop running a 100-billion parameter model at human reading speed. Here's how it works: Every other LLM stores weights in 32-bit or 16-bit floats. BitNet uses 1.58 bits. Weights are ternary just -1, 0, or +1. That's it. No floats. No expensive matrix math. Pure integer operations your CPU was already built for. The result: - 100B model runs on a single CPU at 5-7 tokens/second - 2.37x to 6.17x faster than llama.cpp on x86 - 82% lower energy consumption on x86 CPUs - 1.37x to 5.07x speedup on ARM (your MacBook) - Memory drops by 16-32x vs full-precision models The wildest part: Accuracy barely moves. BitNet b1.58 2B4T their flagship model was trained on 4 trillion tokens and benchmarks competitively against full-precision models of the same size. The quantization isn't destroying quality. It's just removing the bloat. What this actually means: - Run AI completely offline. Your data never leaves your machine - Deploy LLMs on phones, IoT devices, edge hardware - No more cloud API bills for inference - AI in regions with no reliable internet The model supports ARM and x86. Works on your MacBook, your Linux box, your Windows machine. 27.4K GitHub stars. 2.2K forks. Built by Microsoft Research. 100% Open Source. MIT License.show more

🤯 What, Chrome has an AI summarizer API built... in now?? - No API keys, no internet. Runs locally - Downloads the model on-demand - Available as a global in the latest version of Chrome. Works in chrome extensions too I have so many chrome extension ideas now...show more

Cancelled ChatGPT -> Built JARVIS -> Pays $0 ->... it works offline + it's smarter than the $20/month version. No WiFi needed, no cloud, no API keys, no rate limits, no queues, no $20/month just to ask a server in Virginia for the weather. Just a local model running directly on the laptop hardware, voice activated, system integrated, controlling apps, answering questions, doing the work. Iron Man had JARVIS embedded in his suit, this guy has it embedded in his MacBook and it works on a plane, in a basement, on a remote cabin with zero signal. OpenAI is burning $700,000 a day on infrastructure to deliver something this guy runs for free. Anthropic charges $200/month for unlimited Claude access, microsoft built Copilot into every product they sell. This guy skipped all of it, downloaded a model and made his laptop the smartest device in the room. No subscription. No login. No internet. No data sent anywhere ever. The most powerful AI assistant on earth is now the one running locally on hardware you already own. ChatGPT charges you to think slower, he pays nothing and thinks alone, he made it himself.show more

Gemma 4 looks at a parking lot. Decides what... to ask. Calls SAM 3.1. "Segment all vehicles." 64 found. "Now just the white ones." 23 found. One model reasoning and orchestrating. One model executing. Both running locally on a MacBook. MLX. No cloud. No API.show more

THAT $70 "RUN YOUR OWN LLMS" PI KIT CAN'T... RUN A SINGLE LLM. IT'S A VISION CHIP WITH NO RAM. that clip sells a raspberry pi 5 in a slick case with an ai accelerator and the caption "your own llms." clean build, fun kit. the claim is where it breaks. the fine print: the popular $70 pi ai kit uses a hailo-8l, 13 tops. it's built for vision, object detection and image processing, and it has no memory of its own. so it cannot run large language models. full stop the board that actually can is a different one: the newer ai hat+ 2, hailo-10h, 40 tops, with 8gb of dedicated ram. that's $130, not $70 and even that runs only tiny models. llama 3.2 at 1b, qwen 2.5 at 1.5b, deepseek r1 at 1.5b. edge llms live in the 1-7b range, against cloud models at 500b to 2 trillion so the honest pitch: for $130 you can run a very small language model on a pi, slowly, as a fun learning project. that's real and it's cool. "your own llms" on a $70 vision kit is not. why this keeps happening: "ai kit" and a big "tops" number sell. tops sounds like intelligence. but tops measures vision-style math, not whether the chip has the memory to hold a language model. the spec that matters for llms is ram, and the cheap kit has none. the honest caveats, both ways: the $70 kit is genuinely great, just at vision. cameras, object detection, that's its job the $130 hat really does run small llms locally, which a pi couldn't do at all two years ago. that's progress "small" is the load-bearing word. don't expect gpt at home on a pi the takeaway: before you buy a kit because the caption says llm, check two numbers. not the tops. the ram, and the size of the model it can actually load. no 70-dollar miracle, no gpt in a pi case, no tops number that means what you think. save this before you buy the wrong kit for the word on the box.show more

AI VIDEOS ARE BECOMING SCARILY NORMAL At first, this... looks like a simple clip from a sunny day on campus. A girl is sitting on the grass with a notebook, people are relaxing around her, and the whole scene feels like something someone casually filmed on their phone. Nothing about it instantly feels fake. And that’s exactly the point. AI video is no longer only about creating robots, fantasy worlds or crazy impossible scenes. It’s getting better at copying the most normal parts of real life: sunlight, background movement, random people, small gestures and natural-looking camera shots. Not long ago, AI clips were easy to expose. The face would feel off, the hands would glitch, or the motion would look weird after a few seconds. Now those signs are becoming harder to catch. The real breakthrough isn’t that AI can make something shocking. It’s that it can make an ordinary everyday moment look so real that most people would scroll past without questioning it.show more

Gemma 4 watches raw video. Understands the scene. Then... prompts SAM 3 to segment and RF-DETR to track. One AI directing two others. Fighter jets. Crowds. Aerial defense footage. All three models running locally on a MacBook. No cloud. What scene should I point this at next?show more

THIS ENGINEER SKIPPED 7,862 WORDS OF AI ROADMAP AND... SHIPPED ON A WEEKEND a Pi Zero 2W, an IMX500 camera and a solar panel, that's the whole stack inference runs on-chip so there's no cloud, no latency and no monthly bill Spotted Dove at 0.95, King Parrot at 0.88, runs forever on sun code is open source and the 3D files are free, you just print the case and buy the parts and it works better than most paid wildlife monitoring services out there full video: code (open source): 3D print files: solar power board: save this so you actually have everything in one place when you decide to build itshow more

NVIDIA just made paying for AI feel optional. Open... model, a million tokens of context, free tier with no per-token cost, runs on your own hardware. Entire codebases, whole data rooms, a year of chat logs, all swallowed in one prompt. No chunking, no RAG, no rate limit theater. The closed-AI premium has 90 days to defend itself. Bookmark this and come back. Open beat closed. Again.show more

ANTHROPIC AND OPENAI BOTH MISSED THIS. Someone just open-sourced... one SDK that gives AI agents a mouse, keyboard, and screen across macOS, Linux, and Windows. It's called CUA. Same code drives a local VM or a cloud sandbox regardless of the OS. Your agent sees the screen, clicks, types, and runs shell commands like a real user. > Benchmark against OSWorld and ScreenSpot > Export trajectories for model training > Near-native performance on Apple Silicon No separate SDK per OS. No infrastructure headache. 100% Free. Open Source.show more

NVIDIA might have just declared war on the cloud... GPU business For years, AI builders had one option Rent compute Pay every month Watch the bill grow every time usage increased Now NVIDIA is putting serious AI hardware directly on people's desks Small enough to fit next to a monitor Powerful enough to run workloads that used to require expensive cloud infrastructure That's why this launch is getting so much attention The real story isn't the hardware specs It's the business model shift Every month, developers send money to cloud providers for inference, testing, fine-tuning and AI applications The question nobody can answer yet is what happens if enough developers decide they'd rather buy infrastructure once than rent it forever Because if local AI hardware keeps getting more powerful, the economics start changing very quickly Cloud providers built empires on renting access to compute NVIDIA is betting more people will eventually want to own it And that's a much bigger story than a new piece of hardware sitting on a deskshow more

JENSEN HUANG UNVEILED A BOARD THAT RUNS 1 TRILLION... PARAMETER AI MODELS. THE $249 NVIDIA BOX UNDER YOUR DESK KILLS A $200/MONTH AI BILL FOR $5 IN ELECTRICITY jensen held it up on stage with one hand and called it the architecture that runs the future of ai. that same technology now ships in a $249 box smaller than your wallet the jetson orin nano super pulls 7-25 watts and does 67 trillion ai operations per second. llama 3, mistral and deepseek run locally with no api fees and no data leaving your machine most developers pay $2,400 a year across chatgpt, openai api, claude pro and cursor. the jetson costs $314 in year one and $60 a year after. 2 year savings hit $4,431 install ollama with one command, change one line of code to point at localhost, and every tool built for openai works identically. zero rewrites, zero rate limits cloud subscriptions keep getting more expensive and rate limits keep getting tighter. the people who own the box in 2026 are going to look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article belowshow more

THIS $2 AI VISUAL SETUP JUST MADE A $250/MONTH... CREATIVE STACK LOOK STUPID he moves his hand, the particles react, and the whole scene updates in real time. no cloud render farm, no paid visual API, no expensive plugin chain quietly eating money every month most people still think ai visuals require a stack of $39 tools, $89 subscriptions, and constant API usage. but here the loop is simple: TouchDesigner handles the visuals, a local model handles the logic, and the laptop does the rest the important part is not that the particles look cool. the important part is that the “brain” behind the visual no longer has to live on someone else’s server once that moves local, the monthly bill falls off a cliff this is probably how a lot of small studios start building visuals soon: not by renting 6 tools forever, but by owning one system that runs almost for freeshow more

Elon Musk just identified the next crisis in AI.... It’s not a shortage. It’s an unusable surplus. Musk: “By the end of this year, chip production will outpace the ability to turn chips on.” For three years the world was starved for silicon. Every lab, every government, every company racing to secure the chips that determine who wins the AI era. That bottleneck is ending. A new one is replacing it. Musk: “The chips are going to be piling up and not be able to be turned on.” Billions of dollars of the most advanced AI hardware ever built. Sitting dark. Not because the chips don’t work. Because there isn’t enough electricity to run them. You can’t print a power plant the way you print a chip. The fabrication plants scaled. The grid didn’t. And now the most valuable hardware in history is about to hit a wall that no amount of capital can instantly solve. Compute is about to become abundant. Electricity is about to become the most valuable commodity on earth. Three years obsessing over silicon yields. Physics doesn’t care about your chip architecture if your data center can’t pull enough megawatts. The war isn’t about who can manufacture the most silicon anymore. It’s about who has the raw power to plug it in. Whoever solves energy first doesn’t just win. They own the infrastructure everyone else needs to compete. The losers stack useless chips in warehouses waiting for power that never arrives. We built a trillion dollar engine and forgot the fuel. That’s the AI race right now.show more

⚠️ SECURITY: VITALIK BUTERIN DITCHES CLOUD AI, REVEALS FULLY... LOCAL LLM SETUP Ethereum co-founder vitalik.eth has moved entirely off cloud AI services and published his full private AI stack in a new blog post. He now runs the Qwen3.5:35B model locally on an Nvidia 5090 laptop, hitting 90 tokens per second. He cited research showing roughly 15% of AI agent skills contain malicious instructions, and that parsing a single malicious webpage could fully compromise an AI assistant. Buterin also open-sourced a messaging daemon requiring human approval for all outbound messages to third parties.show more

Elon announced Macrohard, a joint xAI-Tesla project where Grok... acts as the brain directing a real-time AI agent that can process your screen and actions live. Runs on a $650 Tesla chip. He said it can emulate entire companies. The name alone is an all-time troll of Microsoft.show more

This project is made by humans, ive seen the... comment quite a bit but this is not AI at all we drew everything from scratch and i painted the Glass mosaics, I'm working on getting a composer and Sound team on board next. Thank you for supporting our Indie animation project!show more