Local AI, 16 Feb – 22 Feb 2026

94 posts · All weeks

Alibaba unveiled a major AI model upgrade ahead of DeepSeek's release, and Cohere released Tiny Aya, a 3.3B parameter multilingual model.

Standout posts include "I broke into my own AI system in 10 minutes" and "I Stopped Paying for ChatGPT and Built a Private AI Setup That Anyone Can Run", highlighting local AI security and self-hosting.

Sunday, 22 February 2026

Asus ExpertBook B3 G2 laptop features 50 TOPS AI compute for enterprise use.

Saturday, 21 February 2026

Hugging Face acquires GGML.AI, securing llama.cpp's future.

Friday, 20 February 2026

Llama 3.1 8B runs on Taalas custom ASICs at 16,000 tokens/second.

Thursday, 19 February 2026

GPT4All replaces Ollama on Mac with improved performance.

Wednesday, 18 February 2026

Qwen 3.5 model runs on AMD Instinct GPUs with day 0 support.

Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a 3.3B multilingual model, for on-device deployment.

Monday, 16 February 2026

Alibaba upgrades AI models ahead of DeepSeek release with InitRunner framework support.