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
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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
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
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
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017: What Changed, and the Memory It Takes Locally
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on 17 October 2026. It replaces the September V4.1-Flash on DeepSeek's website, app and API, and its weights are on Hugging Face under the MIT licence. Within a week it was the most-trending model on the site. This guide covers what actually changed, what it takes to run the weights on your own hardware, and when the API is the more … [Read more...] about DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017: What Changed, and the Memory It Takes Locally
ACE-Step: Generate Music Locally in ComfyUI
ACE-Step is an open-source music generation model: give it a style description and lyrics, and it produces a full song with vocals, on your own computer. Version 1.5, released on 23 January 2026, is the one to use now, with a larger "XL" version added in April. It runs in ComfyUI or in ACE-Step's own app, and its weights are MIT-licensed. This guide covers which model to … [Read more...] about ACE-Step: Generate Music Locally in ComfyUI
oMLX: A Local LLM Server for Apple Silicon Macs
oMLX is an open-source server for running language models on Apple Silicon Macs, built on Apple's MLX framework and managed from a menu bar app. It appeared in February 2026 and has gathered about 22,900 stars on GitHub, which makes it one of the most-watched local AI projects on the Mac this year. Its pitch is narrower than Ollama's or LM Studio's: it is built for long, … [Read more...] about oMLX: A Local LLM Server for Apple Silicon Macs
Z-Image Turbo Locally: Files, VRAM and Settings in ComfyUI
Z-Image-Turbo is the 6-billion-parameter image model from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab, released on 26 November 2025. Nearly a year later it is still one of the most-used image models in ComfyUI: Comfy-Org's repackaged files were downloaded about 9.2 million times in the past month, more than any other Comfy-Org repository except MiniMax-H3 and Qwen-Image 2.1. Three things explain … [Read more...] about Z-Image Turbo Locally: Files, VRAM and Settings in ComfyUI