Stability Matrix is a free desktop app that installs and updates local image-generation tools for you. It installs ComfyUI, InvokeAI, Forge, SwarmUI, SD.Next and two dozen more from one window, gives each its own Python environment, and lets them all share one models folder. It runs on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux, and it is made by Lykos AI. This guide covers what … [Read more...] about Stability Matrix: One Installer for ComfyUI, Forge and InvokeAI
Local AI & Tech Guides
Practical guides to running AI on your own hardware. We cover local LLMs end to end — how much RAM and VRAM you actually need, which runner to use, how quantization changes the maths, and which GPUs, Macs and handhelds are worth buying. Every speed figure here is a clearly labelled estimate, never a lab claim.
Pair these guides with our free AI tools: the VRAM calculator, the hardware matrix and the model directory.
Hunyuan3D 2.1 in ComfyUI: Local 3D Generation, VRAM and the Licence Catch
Hunyuan3D 2.1 is Tencent's open-weight image-to-3D system. You give it one picture of an object and it returns a mesh, then a second model paints physically based (PBR) textures onto that mesh. Tencent released it on 13 June 2025, and it is still the newest Hunyuan3D shape model whose weights you can download. This guide covers what the two models are, which files to download … [Read more...] about Hunyuan3D 2.1 in ComfyUI: Local 3D Generation, VRAM and the Licence Catch
Cline With a Local Model: Ollama and LM Studio Setup, Context and Permissions
Cline is an open-source coding agent that reads your project, edits files and runs terminal commands from a chat panel. It ships as a VS Code and JetBrains extension, a desktop app and a command-line tool, and all of them can run on a model served by Ollama or LM Studio on your own machine instead of a paid API. This guide covers the provider settings for both runtimes, the … [Read more...] about Cline With a Local Model: Ollama and LM Studio Setup, Context and Permissions
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Locally: Which Model Fits Your GPU
Nemotron 3.5 is NVIDIA's 2026 family of open models. Four of them are language models you can run at home: the small Bolt E4B, the 30B Lightning, the 74B Bolt squeezed into a 24GB package, and the 120B Super VL. Their names carry memory figures that do not match the downloads. This guide lists each model with its real download sizes, explains what the 4GB, 24GB and DFlash … [Read more...] about NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Locally: Which Model Fits Your GPU
OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: Which Personal AI Agent for a Local Model
OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are the two most popular open-source personal AI agents of 2026. Both run on your own computer, answer you through chat apps, run commands and schedule tasks, and both can be started on a local model with a single ollama launch command. They differ in what they connect to, how they remember, and how much they let the agent do before asking. This … [Read more...] about OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: Which Personal AI Agent for a Local Model
Hermes Agent With Ollama: Running Nous Research’s Agent on Local Models
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source personal agent. It remembers you across sessions, writes its own skills, runs scheduled jobs and answers through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp or Signal. It has more than 256,000 GitHub stars, and it can run entirely on a model served by Ollama on your own machine. This guide covers the two ways to connect it to Ollama, the 64K … [Read more...] about Hermes Agent With Ollama: Running Nous Research’s Agent on Local Models
OpenClaw With a Local Model: Ollama Setup, Context and What It Can Touch
OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer and answers you through the chat apps you already use: WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage and about 20 more. It can also run commands, edit files, browse the web and schedule tasks. With almost 393,000 GitHub stars it is one of the largest open-source projects of the year, and it can run entirely … [Read more...] about OpenClaw With a Local Model: Ollama Setup, Context and What It Can Touch
Meta Muse Spark Open Locally: 816B Weights, the Memory It Takes and the Licence
Meta released Muse Spark Open on 15 October 2026: an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model with 816 billion parameters, a 1-million-token context, and text, image, video and audio input. Meta calls it "the most capable US open-weight model to date". It is also one of the largest models anyone has tried to run at home. This guide covers what the model is, the memory each version … [Read more...] about Meta Muse Spark Open Locally: 816B Weights, the Memory It Takes and the Licence
DeepSeek Harness With a Local Model: Setup, Context and Defaults
DeepSeek Harness, dsh for short, is DeepSeek's open-source agent: it reads and edits files, runs commands and keeps a plan, from a desktop app or a web interface. It is built to use DeepSeek's own API, but it can also talk to any OpenAI-compatible server, which includes Ollama, LM Studio and llama.cpp running on your own machine. DeepSeek's documentation never names those … [Read more...] about DeepSeek Harness With a Local Model: Setup, Context and Defaults
NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops for Local AI: 128GB, 300GB/s and What Fits
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops went on sale on 16 October 2026: Windows laptops built around the same chip as the DGX Spark, with up to 128GB of memory shared between the processor and the graphics. For local AI that is the headline. A laptop that can hold a 120-billion-parameter model has, until now, meant a MacBook Pro or an AMD Strix Halo machine. This guide covers what the … [Read more...] about NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops for Local AI: 128GB, 300GB/s and What Fits