… DeepSeek R1 Distill kept showing up in every local LLM conversation I was following, and at first it was hard to see what made it so different from models I was already running. But it turned out to be the specialist I didn't know I was missing… Want to stay in the loop with the latest in AI? …
… Related I ditched LM Studio for an open-source alternative — and my local model is doing things it couldn't before It's better in all the ways I needed local AI to be better A quick overview of Qwen and Gemma Why these two ended up in my rotation Qwen 3.5 9B dropped in February as part of the Qwen … …
… Related I finally found a local LLM I want to use every day and it's not for coding Local AI that actually fits into my day Qwen 3.5 4B My unplanned third pick Phi-3.5 mini was supposed to be the third model. …
… I said I'd be testing this with a local model , and providing your own model is what the free tier expects after you use your $50 credit allowance. I suspect that most will bring their own cloud-based subscription, but I was especially curious how a local LLM would handle it instead. …