I replaced NotebookLM with a local LLM, and the difference is night and day
…Related I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs…
…Related I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs…
…06 / 8 Privacy What is the primary privacy advantage of using a self-hosted LLM over a cloud-based AI service like ChatGPT for your personal notes? A Self-hosted models are…
…Easter Word Search - this will see if Claude can analyze a grid of text, find words hidden in them, then mark them on the word search. I'm not sure how Claude…
…And while some might be tempted to say that AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity , and so on, can all play their part in helping you sift through this information chaos…
…Much like how OpenAI's ChatGPT introduced LLM to the masses, OpenClaw brought agentic tools into the spotlight. Now, having a chatbot is so passe; AI companies now need an agentic service…
Jasmine Mannan May 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Sign in to your XDA account Prompting an LLM requires a different approach than typing a search query into Google, yet it's common for people to treat them the same . The…
…Sign in to your XDA account I have been a long-time user of ChatGPT and Claude , but never considered the paid tier worth the price. Since my daily workflow doesn't…
…I leverage NotebookLM by uploading long PDF files and letting its AI do the heavy lifting of extracting information. I was recently searching for a new car. I had downloaded the comprehensive…
…Google AI Pro ($240 yearly) and iCloud ($36 yearly) 1Password Family ($72 yearly) Netflix ($322 yearly) Proton VPN ($120 yearly) ChatGPT Pro ($240 yearly) Backblaze (S3, $0.20 per 500GB per month…