Local AI – O’Reilly

The release of Gemma 4 has added energy to the discussion of local models and their importance. Models that you can download and run on hardware you own are becoming competitive with the “frontier models” hosted by large AI providers. These models have gotten good enough for production use, good enough for tasks that until recently required an API call to a frontier model. They are typically open weight (though not open source) and much smaller than the frontier models like Anthropic’s Claude.

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