7 stories tagged local-llms, newest first.
8 points by donk8r | 2 comments
A TypeTab blog post explaining which local LLM model sizes fit on Apple Silicon Macs, which free tools to use, and practical everyday uses.
326 points by teoruiz | 214 comments
Blog post on jyn.dev arguing LLM token prices are falling by orders of magnitude, so quality and access, not token cost, will limit AI use.
732 points by bilsbie | 343 comments
Simon Willison blog post reviewing Alibaba's Apache 2 licensed Qwen 3.8 27B vision LLM run locally, noting strong results but excessive default reasoning.
1490 points by jfb | 569 comments
Vicki Boykis blog post arguing that running LLMs locally on a 64GB M2 Mac is now practical, describing models like Mistral 7B, Gemma 3, OpenAI OSS-20B and Qwen 3.
391 points by simonw | 83 comments
Simon Willison's blog post comparing SVG pelican-on-a-bicycle drawings from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B run locally on a MacBook Pro and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7.
367 points by frontsideair | 241 comments
A personal blog post by a self-described LLM skeptic explaining how to download and run large language models locally on a Mac.
544 points by simonw | 362 comments
Simon Willison blog post showing the GLM-4.5 Air model, 3-bit quantized for MLX, generating a working Space Invaders game in JavaScript on a 64GB laptop.