DRDragos Rouaindragosroua.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 4 min read[ Video ] How To Set Up Local AI on a 16GB MacBookOne of my YouTube subscribers asked, in a comment, how to set up a 16GB M1 MacBook Pro so it runs models in a more comfortable way, not necessarily in the terminal. This came as a reaction to my local00
DRDragos Rouaindragosroua.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 4 min readWhat Makes an AI Model a “Really Good” AI Model?The pace at which neolabs are launching AI models is getting ridiculous. Every week is “the best week in AI”. Every few days a new “really good AI model” is launched. Every few days a new iteration on00
DRDragos Rouaindragosroua.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 3 min read[Video] Running Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Qwen 9b Distill on a 16GB MBPThis is the third video already in the series I started this month. I am trying to share my experiments in running relatively small – but powerful – models on an entry level machine, my 16GB M1 MacBoo00
DRDragos Rouaindragosroua.hashnode.dev·Sep 25 · 2 min read[Video] Running Google Gemma 4 E4B on my 16GB MacBookProLast week I started a series about running open weights models on your own hardware. The goal was to give my subscribers a good understanding of what it is to run local, private AI on an entry level c00
DRDragos Rouaindragosroua.hashnode.dev·Sep 24 · 2 min read[Video] I Tested Grok 4.7 With One Simple Job: Turn My vi Task Files Into a Bash AgendaGrok 4.7, from SpaceXAI, was released yesterday. It was delayed by almost 2 weeks, but it eventually came out, and I had a chance to test it. There’s a tiny video you can watch, if you want to jump st00