#open-source-models

#open-source-models

A 3D-printable tabletop device runs local AI on a GPU and makes energy costs visible with a pinwheel, combining playful design and political urgency.

September featured record AI funding, major frontier model releases (trillion-parameter and multimodal), accelerating open-source parity, and infrastructure shifts toward gigawatt-scale data centers.

AI coding assistants are widely used in embedded-system development, but governance, security, and open-source license risk confidence remain lacking.

Lumo is a privacy-focused AI chatbot by Proton that stores data locally and uses end-to-end encryption.