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Local LLMs finally beat cloud AI for coding, automation, and brainstorming — here's which ones I use

There's always a local model that can replace your AI subscription ...

This Vibe-Coding Startup Just Completed the ‘Missing Piece’ in Its Battle Against the Competition

Base44 is working to reduce its reliance on frontier LLMs and get ahead of its competitors.
VentureBeat

Self-invoking code benchmarks help you decide which LLMs to use for your programming tasks

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at coding, the benchmarks used to evaluate their performance are steadily becoming less useful. That's because though many LLMs have similar high ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
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I use my local LLMs with these 6 obscure self-hosted apps

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other cloud-based LLM providers may be more powerful than anything I can self-host on my local services, but the privacy-respecting nature and (comparatively) usage ...
InfoWorld

Here’s how Google is using LLMs for complex internal code migrations

The tech giant has developed a step-by-step AI toolkit that it says has improved end-to-end code migrations by 50%. Code migration is a critical process in maintaining software applications. It helps ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

A Practitioner's Guide to Using Large Language Models and Generative AI in Economic History

Large language models (LLMs) are lowering the entry barriers to working with exciting data sources that used to require strong data science skills, such as handwritten ledgers, text, images, or sound ...
Communications of the ACM

Teaching LLMs to Give Better Answers

As a result, researchers are exploring ways to embed better logic into AI. The goal isn’t so much to make LLMs smarter; it’s ...