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Ghost AI raised $11 million in seed funding to market Core, a $3,499 local hardware box running NVIDIA RTX Pro 4000 graphics cards. The unit runs Qwen and Gemma models locally to ensure agent operations stay off third-party cloud infrastructure.
David Friedberg lists a wave of open-weight model releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 2.1 on September 20 and Mime's 309-billion-parameter Mimo Pro on September 22. Friedberg argues this rapid local deployment makes government attempts to ban AI functionally impossible.
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash launched on September 9 with a key value cache of 890,000 bytes at a rate of 120 dollars per million tokens. Separately, PrismML's 27-billion-parameter Bonsi 2 model achieves 98 percent of Qwen's performance at 5.9 gigabytes.
Seth states that a 27-billion-parameter model like Qwen 3.8 can run locally on a MacBook Pro with 24GB of RAM. A newly released distillation of this model runs efficiently on just 12GB of VRAM, making local development highly accessible.
Dave Jones runs local inference on Asus and Helix hardware using Yukasai Swift Qwen 3.8 27B. This model reduces thinking tokens by 58 percent while losing less than one percent of output quality.