Local-Inference · AI Beat

28 Oct 2026 · AI Beat Desk

What You Know When the Internet's Gone

Survival LLM is a free, open-source offline AI assistant bundled with roughly 930,000 Wikipedia articles, medical references, FEMA guidance, and U.S. military survival manuals. It selects a model tier based on your machine's RAM and runs fully locally after the initial download. The interesting design question isn't the AI — it's what you bundle with it.

17 Jun 2026 · AI Beat Desk

The Laptop Won

Vicki Boykis published a careful practitioner's report on her local-inference stack this week, and the conclusion that stuck — ~75% of frontier model capability for agentic coding on a 64 GB M2 Mac — is more significant than the raw number suggests. The tooling layer finally grew up, and that changes what "running locally" means.