Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and ...
TechCrunch

Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally

Google DeepMind on Tuesday released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without requiring an internet connection. Building on the company’s ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code proved possible, but the path was more complicated than the polished model catalogs initially suggested. On a modest company laptop with 12 GB of RAM and no ...