August 20, 2026 models
Point releases keep shrinking the VRAM bill
The quiet trend of 2026: same quality, fewer gigabytes. What it means for budget rigs.
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August 5, 2026 hardware
16GB is the new 12GB: mid-range GPUs grow up
The 16GB mid-range segment finally has real options — and it changes the first-rig conversation.
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July 22, 2026 tools
Tool-calling gets boring (the best kind of news)
Local runtimes quietly standardized function calling — and that unlocks the real agent era at home.
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July 8, 2026 tools
Local RAG grows up: citations everywhere
Self-hosted knowledge bases crossed the trust threshold — answers now show their sources by default.
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June 24, 2026 research
Small reasoning models close the visible gap
Distilled reasoners in the 7–32B range keep eating tasks that used to demand frontier APIs.
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June 10, 2026 policy
What open-weight licenses mean for builders
MIT vs Apache-2.0 vs community licenses — the 5-minute primer that protects your side project.