It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how. MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a plan for the ...

Best AI laptops to run AI locally. Compare powerful GPUs, CPUs & RAM options to handle machine learning, LLMs & deep learning ...

The most common interactions most of us will have with AI right now is through a cloud-based tool such as ChatGPT or Copilot. Those tools require a connection to the internet to use, but the trade-off ...

GPT-OSS, OpenAI’s open-weight language model series released in August 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license, empowers users to run advanced AI locally, ensuring privacy and control. Available in two ...

Running a powerful language model directly on your own PC used to sound like something only researchers or AI labs could do. But with OpenAI’s new gpt-oss-20b model and Microsoft’s support through ...

Most new AI models go big—more parameters, more tokens, more everything. Google's newest AI model has some big numbers, but it's also tuned for efficiency. Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near the speeds expected by consumers. Most artificial intelligence projects ...