Case Studies
The cheapest Mac for local AI is a memory question
The honest answer is not a price tag but the memory you can afford to buy.
9 minAI
Everything we publish on AI: the models we run on our own machines, what the tools send home, the benchmarks we measure ourselves and the claims we check against the code. Start with the investigations, then the guides.
Case Studies
How we judge open-source AI tools
Inside the Atlas, our running record of every tool we test: one template and one status ladder for every verdict.
10 min
Business
The free AI tier runs out sooner than you think
Four popular free plans, their limits, and where each one uses your data.
9 min
Insights
Open WebUI or Jan for a private ChatGPT?
A feature-rich browser workspace or a double-click desktop app. We picked one.
9 min
Insights
Do you need an agent framework?
smolagents and the alternatives, and why most of the noise sells a layer you can skip.
10 min
Insights
The best local model is the one that fits
Not the biggest: the model that leaves headroom in your RAM and matches the job you do every day.
11 min
Insights
OpenCode, Pi or Cursor?
Three coding agents, three bets on where you work and where your code goes, without the marketing.
12 min
Insights
Why Nemotron beats DeepSeek inside OpenCode
DeepSeek scores higher on coding benchmarks; Nemotron is still the daily driver, and the leaderboard does not say why.
11 min
Guides
Marker turns PDFs into clean Markdown
Layout detection keeps tables and equations intact, on your own machine.
10 min
Guides
Piper speaks in under a second on any CPU
A lightweight text-to-speech engine built for a Raspberry Pi, with nothing leaving your machine.
9 min