Hugging Face launched Llama Windows, a free and open-source app for downloading and running AI models on Windows 11 without using the command line. It aims to make local AI, with no subscription or constant cloud connection, more accessible.
More executives are tempted to run AI models on their own servers. The article explains that whether this pays off comes down to two parameters.
Hermes Agent 0.22 opens new desktop installs on a guided setup chat running on a free trial model, so newcomers can start before getting an API key. The release also adds connectors to everyday apps, a one-click llama.cpp runtime for local models, and stable versioning.
Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore have built a tool that uses lightweight Gemma models running on the device to catch conversational scams in private chats. No data leaves the phone for the cloud.
The ArtCraft suite offers free, open-source apps covering the uses of seven Adobe programs, from photo editing and video to illustration and PDF. The project is ambitious, but its first versions remain highly experimental.
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning at no cost, served by NVIDIA. The open-weight reasoning model has 30 billion parameters with 3 billion active per token, a hybrid Mamba-2 and mixture-of-experts design and a 1M-token context window; the provider may keep prompts to improve the model.