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21,468 views • 10 months ago

🚨 Founders: free, private, 100% local AI is finally here I downloaded Qwen 3.6 and ran it on my MacBook inside Strawberry browser. I couldn't believe it. We now have 100% free and private AI that is on par with the best models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. (see video!) The CTO of Hugging Face called this "the second revolution of AI." He's right. If you are a building an AI product, you HAVE to start thinking about how you can leverage open source models in your product. It's only a matter of time until local models are mainstream and can run on most people's devices. LLMs are commoditizing. The human brain only requires a AAA battery's worth of energy to run. If biology figured out efficient intelligence, software can too. Maybe we won't need artificial super intelligence and thousands of data centres to do most economically valuable work. Maybe there's a future where AI agents just run on your laptop, fine-tuned to you, fully owned by you, costing only what your energy bill costs. In this future, it's all about building the most delightful, intuitive experience. We've been building for exactly this moment. Stay tuned.

🚨 Founders: free, private, 100% local AI is finally here I downloaded Qwen 3.6 and ran it on my MacBook inside Strawberry browser. I couldn't believe it. We now have 100% free and private AI that is on par with the best models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. (see video!) The CTO of Hugging Face called this "the second revolution of AI." He's right. If you are a building an AI product, you HAVE to start thinking about how you can leverage open source models in your product. It's only a matter of time until local models are mainstream and can run on most people's devices. LLMs are commoditizing. The human brain only requires a AAA battery's worth of energy to run. If biology figured out efficient intelligence, software can too. Maybe we won't need artificial super intelligence and thousands of data centres to do most economically valuable work. Maybe there's a future where AI agents just run on your laptop, fine-tuned to you, fully owned by you, costing only what your energy bill costs. In this future, it's all about building the most delightful, intuitive experience. We've been building for exactly this moment. Stay tuned.

Charles Maddock

12,633 views • 2 months ago

🚨 WOW! HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. DROPS this line on an insufferable Democrat representative "If you want just a SOUNDBYTE that you can come in here, you can get that and you did it!" "But if you actually want to SOLVE the problem, call me — because we're aligned on the issue of getting good food to children and we think that we're doing a good job of it." "We could do a better job, but come and tell us how we can do a better job and that would be something we could all profit from."

🚨 WOW! HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. DROPS this line on an insufferable Democrat representative "If you want just a SOUNDBYTE that you can come in here, you can get that and you did it!" "But if you actually want to SOLVE the problem, call me — because we're aligned on the issue of getting good food to children and we think that we're doing a good job of it." "We could do a better job, but come and tell us how we can do a better job and that would be something we could all profit from."

Eric Daugherty

119,073 views • 3 months ago