Local-Ai
5 practitioners working with Local-Ai:
heretic
fully automatic censorship removal for language models. 8,000+ stars in 24 hours. not an endorsement — a signal about who owns your AI's behavior.
KittenTTS
sub-25MB text-to-speech model. three sizes. Apache 2.0. local voice for your personal AI setup.
the approval problem
ChatGPT tells 5,000 people to breathe. heretic hits 1,000 stars. someone in Ukraine builds AI that survives power cuts. seven signals about what happens when you own your AI — or don't.
the overhead collapse: cheaper models, local search, always-on agents
sonnet 4.6 beats opus in human preference tests, a 9K-star local knowledge search CLI, dorabot as persistent desktop agent, thompson on thin clients, context injection attacks, and automated research pipelines
zvec
lightweight, in-process vector database from Alibaba. your AI's memory layer without the infrastructure overhead.