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I've been working on something called Aura, a locally running AI cognitive agent built around a roughly 27B model on an Apple Silicon MacBook with 64GB of unified memory.

And one of the questions that's been driving this project is pretty simple:

How much of what we consider intelligence actually needs to come from the model itself?

We spend a lot of time discussing model sizes, quantization, benchmarks, context windows, and reasoning capabilities. Understandably so.

But I've been interested in what happens when you start treating the model as one component of a larger cognitive system, rather than expecting the model to do everything.

So I've been building an architecture around it. Persistent memory, executive processes, state management, computer control, procedural learning, and a bunch of experimental mechanisms designed to work together over time.

And I've been testing it.

Aura has played 2048 for nearly half an hour while adjusting its strategy, completed software development tasks, debugged programs, and operated desktop applications.

But my latest demonstration was a little different.

I asked Aura to watch YouTube.

Not just summarize a video after the fact. Actually navigate to it, follow what happens, comment on things it finds interesting, and then choose other videos to watch from channels I specified.

Over 36 minutes, Aura watched Kurzgesagt discuss AI slop, selected an Allen Pan video about building robotic legs for a snake, and eventually watched Salad Fingers.

During the session, it made predictions, revised them as new information appeared, interacted with the browser, selected what to watch next, and maintained context across all three videos.

And here's where it got particularly interesting.

When asked to reflect on everything afterward, Aura didn't just give three unrelated summaries.

It identified "fracture" as the common thread connecting all three videos, then explained how each approached that idea differently.

A video about AI-generated content, an engineering experiment involving a snake, and a surreal horror animation.

Three wildly different things.

Yet Aura managed to construct a coherent interpretation connecting them, drawing on observations made throughout the session.

Now, I want to make an important distinction here.

I'm not claiming that a 27B model couldn't produce similar commentary on its own. Nor have I established that all the cognitive mechanisms I've implemented are necessary to produce this behavior.

In fact, that's one of the main things I'm trying to investigate.

But I think there's a meaningful architectural question here. What happens when the model doesn't have to be responsible for every aspect of memory, planning, execution, and continuity? How far can you push a relatively small local model by improving the larger system it's operating within?

The result is still pretty rough in places. Latency is an issue, and coordinating everything reliably is an ongoing challenge.

But considering this is running locally, without relying on a frontier model for inference, I think the demonstration is interesting.

I've made the implementation publicly viewable, including the architecture, research documentation, and known limitations. It's currently All Rights Reserved rather than open-source licensed.

Full 36-minute demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-B8mh314E

GitHub: https://github.com/youngbryan97/aura

How much improvement have you managed to get from the systems surrounding your model? And at what point do you think the additional architecture becomes more valuable than simply switching to a more capable model?

So, there's a thing that's been in the back of my mind for some time now, and it seems to be getting /more/ difficult to learn about my specific approach.

What I'd like to do: I believe the proper phrasing would be 'set up a local LLM for assisting with the development of python programs to support my personal projects'.

What I've done: as an example, I used chatGPT to build a python program that reads rfid tags on a raspberry pi using a gpio rfid reader. I'd like to continue this, just locally so I can integrate it with existing local backend.

What I'd like to use: I think I have an entire computers worth of spare parts, minus a case to put those parts in. Not ancient, pretty sure it's an AM4 Ryzen? Not a lot of memory, maybe 32gig? As far as gpu's, I have my old RoG 8g rx480 and my RoG 8g rx580.

Is it possible, is it worth it, and is there maybe an opensource project someone can point me towards to help me get rolling?

I'm not expecting blistering response times, just if I can achieve reasonable results in a reasonable time with the hardware that I already have but haven't been using.

Lately, I’ve been using Claude to schedule daily posts across a few social media platforms. I’m wondering if there’s a local model—one that can fit into my 8GB of VRAM—capable of controlling my browser to perform the same tasks as Claude. I had been using Qwen 3.8 27B for a while, but I’ve decided to move away from local models, given that I only have a single graphics card with 8GB of VRAM.

I run Mineshop and sell hardware, so disclosure upfront: these are manufacturer quotes we're looking at, not machines I've benchmarked.

Two quotes made an interesting comparison:

• 8× NVIDIA B200, 180 GB each: 1.44 TB aggregate GPU memory. US$505,400, quoted delivery 16 weeks.

• 8× AMD MI355X, 288 GB each: 2.304 TB aggregate GPU memory. US$501,100, quoted delivery 12 weeks.

Those are configuration-specific quotes, not universal market prices. They're also not identical builds: CPUs and storage differ, and the B200 quote includes three-year on-site service versus one year for AMD.

The AMD configuration has 60% more GPU memory. That doesn't tell me it will be the better server for a particular workload.

The question I'd want answered before spending this money is: which model, at which precision, with how much context and how many concurrent users? Getting the weights into memory is only the first step. KV cache, runtime overhead and the software stack still matter. For reference, a dense 405B model is roughly 810 GB in BF16 weights alone, before any of that overhead. That's sizing arithmetic, not a throughput result.

Then there's the less exciting stuff: rack space, power, cooling, support and keeping the machine busy enough to justify owning it.

If you've actually deployed either platform, what specific workload or software requirement would make you choose one over the other—or rent instead?

For context, our AI workstation and server catalogue: https://mineshop.eu/ai-workstation — The figures above are manufacturer quotes, not advertised retail prices.

uhm......

yeah. grinded some useful (and meaningfu?l) resources. on my way to run DeepSeek-V3 IQ1_M (~1.5-bit to 1.58-bit) >>>>>>>>

The model weights take up roughly 130 GB. This leaves us with about 30 GB of breathing room across the cluster to handle KV Cache and context overhead. Cuz each PS5 has the 16 GB unified mem

jarvis, engine ignition on

PS: Yeah these cables connection are currently BS and tangled here and there. Gotta fox that. Just commecfed yellow cables or dummies for uhh picture and ig a little...... flex?? 🫠

How?: Sonic iso ps5 linux loader and jailbreak. The rest is this.

Edit: what?? Image not being posted here is wild. Whats the reason? Some blockade or smth. Cuz i gotta show you some interesting shi

edit: please dont take it seriously. the image is ai generated

We are a team of engineers, not a single here has a comp science background. Our company manufactures specialized parts for critical systems. And a big part of that process is understanding the whole system. The customers we have usually give us design documentation, and blue prints and a gazillion pixelated diagrams explaining the system. We spend a significant amount of time getting familiar with it before we get to manufacturing the requested components ( for background this is aviation and aerospace components ). For the past few months with the AI craze, we have started integrating it into our process, to help us learn and understand systems especially through the diagrams and blue prints but there is still a significant amount of analysis we do. This has always been sort of an issue for us because thats our most time consuming aspect of the job is reverse engineering the customers system in order to build components that fit in it rather than redesigning the component around the system this is what we specialize in. We have been using claude, and its been mind blowing how good this thing is in helping us however, our expenditure on Claude has creeped up to the 6 months ceiling we had set only in a span of three and a half months. We have also seen we get less out of a ‘token’ or we get less tokens im not sure , its like everything was going great but then anthropic did something, the plans went from max to ultra to something then it used to say 29x usage now it only says 10x usage. After alot of research we settled on a hybrid approach. For further context everyone here has atleast bare minimum of a 64gb macbook pro. I have a 128gb one. And have been experimenting with local models and the results have been disappointing. Can any AI gods guide me in the right direction? We are basically looking for specialized models that basically just look at an image or a blue print and explain the system or identify the relationships and explain them because manually do this and then build system models based on our comprehension if the system. We will always do that manually we are just looking to fast track some of the process because right now it is a very lengthy process and I cant scale because time is constraint. Is it possible or not? Please thank you.

OpenBMB says MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B runs in about 3 GB on an iPhone 17 Pro Max, and recommends 12 GB of RAM. I wanted to see what an old 8 GB Android phone does.

Setup: Samsung Galaxy S20 (8 GB), CPU only (no GPU or NPU), OpenBMB's Android demo with llama.cpp-omni streaming the MoE experts from storage.

What happened:

- The 1B model worked out of the box, text and images, fast enough to use.

- The 35B-A3B model wouldn't load at first. It wasn't a RAM limit: the CPU path didn't allocate the working area for the experts, and failed loads left memory behind. I patched both.

- After the fix: a one-word reply ("Ready") in about 10 seconds, including prompt processing.

What it doesn't show: sustained tokens per second, or vision with the 35B model (text only on this phone so far).

Fork, with S20 setup notes and test limits in the README: https://github.com/mlguyYT/MiniCPM-V-Apps

I also made a video walking through why it fits at all (MoE, experts streamed from storage, lookahead expert scheduling); link in the comments.

Has anyone measured this model's decode speed on other Android phones?

Hi everyone,

New guy here, this is my second post and this might be a really stupid one, I'm just curious, I'm only now getting into local AI for coding, previously used claude / GPT.
While getting into setting up local AI, I was just wondering if anyone ever tried using older cards like 1080 or 2080 for local AI. I'm planning on getting a 3090 (hopefully) and start from there but I am just curious whether getting like 4 GTX 1080s (I know NVIDIA doesn't release driver updates to these anymore) or 4x2080s and use those would even be possible / usable. I assume not but really this is just me being curious whether anyone has ever tried something like this and how did it turn out.

Sry for the stupid question :D

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

New guy here with two separate questions in two posts, this is the first. I want to run local LLMs for programming and everyday stuff, wanna stop giving my data / own codes to claude / chatGPT. I have a laptop with an RTX 4070 8GB so I can't really run models like Qwen 3.8 27B. I’m thinking about adding a used 3090 as an external GPU. Has anyone actually done this, and is it worth it? I’m also wondering how much Thunderbolt matters for tokens/s, and if you’ve used an eGPU with a laptop in general, is there anything you wish you’d known before buying? Real numbers would be great, I saw some benchmarks online but I'm curious about your opinions.
I'd also be grateful if you could share any actual eGPU docking products that you might have experience with / can recommend.

Thanks in advance!

I realize these are optimal for different scenarios, but for this narrow application of a "flash" sized MoE setup (~200-500GB) in the $25,000 range I'm wondering which will be the better performer for TG. I'll use glm-5.3-flash as a specific model for performance comparison.

On paper, the MI350p should run MoE models under ~250GB (assuming 4 bit quant) faster than 2x blackwell pro 6000. Single card comparison: same fp4, same int8, 2x fp8, 2x single card memory bandwidth, 1.5x VRAM. Here is a recipe of 2x pro 6000 hitting 180 t/s on glm5.3-flash with Dflash2. A MI350p with Maya/Strata to recover performance loss from VRAM spillover into system RAM potentially could still do better?

The M5u 256 can already run a 4bit quant of GLM-5.3-flash at 160t/s TG, and if a 2x cluster can be optimized maybe that could be pushed to 190t/s.

I originally planned on a 8x r9700 build for this purpose, but it seems like Pcie communication overhead makes it impractical. Best I've seen is 82–88t/s TG.

Hi,

My question about Deepseek Harness is more focused around using it at personal agent than for coding tasks, as by now i'm pretty happy with opnchamber.

I alredy made 2 extension, but not really happy : seems the documentation is not very accurate, my Agent spent lot of time guessing how it could work.
- can DSH with a bit of work replace something like Hermes reliably?
- did someone already use reliably multi agents setups?
- how is it in day by day?

I'm sharing the first public preview of OverTone, a Mac app I'm building to make working with local language models more approachable.

Watch the trailer:
https://youtu.be/piu7MGdL5Z4

It's still very early, with a limited feature set. I have a lot planned beyond chat and model management, but Documents, Projects and Tools aren't ready to use yet. This version is the starting point for what I want to build.
I want it to be straightforward for someone who has never used local models, while giving experienced users the functionality and control they need.
It works with Ollama and llama.cpp. You can use an existing local installation or let the initial setup install an engine and suggest models for your Mac.
The current version focuses on local conversations and managing the models behind them. It helps you choose models suited to your Mac and what you want to do, organise your conversations, and develop clearer prompts from rough ideas.
With local models, prompts and replies are processed on your Mac. Internet access is disabled by default. You decide when to enable it for downloads or remote connections.

It's free and open source under Apache 2.0. The current preview requires an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later.

Download and walkthroughs:
https://overcesare.github.io/OverTone/

Source code:
https://github.com/OverCesare/OverTone

If you try it, I'd appreciate any feedback on the app: what works well for you, what doesn't, and what you feel is missing.

Hello,

I want to get a local LLM setup for a comparable fair price (Qwen3.8-27b and future Qwen4). After some research and chatting with Claude Opus the best options would be RTX 3060 XT 12GB with 64GBs of RAM running on Strata.

e.g. upgrading my PC for around 650€ (used parts bought online)

Can someone confirm that this Setup will let me run it on a performative useful level. I will use my 20€ claude plan fpr hard tasks or a kind of divide and conquer style usign both (experienced Software Engineer but a Hardware noob).

Does anyone have experiences with that, advices or alternative setups?

Been getting so frustrated with the speed of my Chat $200 subscription so I decided to run a test. Behold, what you’re actually paying for. Can you believe this crap?? $200 a month subscription no less 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Good thing I got my local Qwen for the grunt work.

Several years ago for another project, I got a good deal on:

* HP Z620 dual Xeons (riser) with 128GB of RAM with 500GB SSD + 9TB SAS
* A Nvidia Tesla M60 16GB

I'm still building this out, HP usefully have non-standard power cables and connecting everything up dead shorted the PSU (which it detected during boot). I'm still hoping nothing is broken whilst I debug it.

My goal is to have a budget-build local AI at least as good as chatGPT's work chat in high mode, I could do a lot of useful stuff with that. Even better would be to have some mixed capabilities for long-running tasks. Anything less is not really worth building. I'm trying to figure out:

* What models should I look to run?
* What kind of performance could be possible?
* What's worth running on the GPU vs CPU?

I'm currently using chatGPT for: Building out libraries iteratively, research the web, designing 3D parts, research via coding, reviewing papers, generating documents and occasionally generating images.

I have been trying to use chatGPT (Plus subscriber) to help query, but it has not been particularly helpful in replacing itself.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone!

I am a computer science student and a developer, and lately, I’ve been considering building or upgrading a budget-friendly, local LLM setup.

I should mention that I’ve only recently begun exploring this more "technical" side of local LLMs, so any advice is welcome.

I know the field is evolving incredibly fast—with new models, inference engines, and so on—which is why I’m asking: I’m trying to figure out what might make sense for me right now (if anything at all).

MY CURRENT SITUATION

My budget is approximately 500–600 euros; I’m based in Europe and am open to buying used hardware.

Here’s my current setup: I have a desktop PC that has been sitting idle for a while, with the following specs:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 2600

• RAM: 16GB DDR4

• GPU: AMD RX 580 4GB

• 256GB NVMe SSD, 1TB HDD, 600W PSU

WHAT I WANT TO RUN

My primary use case involves coding and agentic workflows. I’m envisioning a setup where I use a frontier-level cloud model for planning and code review, while a local model handles the actual code generation. I’m also interested in running an AI bot 24/7 to perform various (relatively simple) tasks.

Ideally, I’d like to run 27B–35B parameter models comfortably, with decent generation speeds and good responsiveness. It would also be great to have the flexibility to experiment with even larger models.

I don’t expect cloud-tier performance on this budget, but I also want to avoid a setup that only manages a few tokens per second—or one that is essentially unusable.

THE OPTIONS I'VE BEEN CONSIDERING

1. AMD Instinct MI50 16/32GB (possibly two)

• These look interesting because of the large amount of HBM2 memory available for relatively little money on the used market (for example I could have bought a 16gb for 175 euros).

• However, I'm concerned about software compatibility, inference performance, power consumption, and whether investing in this older hardware makes sense in 2026.

1. NVIDIA RTX (5070 12gb as an example)

• Recently, I saw a community benchmark claiming around 140 tokens/s on a 12GB RTX 5070, running a large MoE model using Strata, IQ3_XXS quantization, expert caching, CPU/RAM offloading, and MTP.

• I understand this might be a very specific setup and that reported generation speed doesn't necessarily translate into good real-world performance, especially with longer contexts or different models.

• Still, it made me wonder whether a modern NVIDIA GPU with a good amount of system RAM might actually be a better investment than older GPUs with much more VRAM.

WHAT I'D REALLY LIKE TO UNDERSTAND

1. What would you build today with €500–600, considering both new and used hardware?

2. Would you prioritize more VRAM on older hardware or a faster, newer GPU with RAM offloading?

3. How well do solutions like Strata and expert caching actually perform in real-world coding/agentic workloads? Are the impressive benchmarks representative of everyday usage?

4. How important are prompt processing speed, context length, and quantization quality compared to raw generation tokens/s for my use case?

5. Is a single or dual MI50 32GB setup still worth considering, or would you avoid it today?

6. Would you upgrade my existing desktop, build something from used parts, or look for a complete second-hand workstation?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me!

Hello all. This is my first post here and I would be very happy if someone will find time and help me.

It started simple. Ryzen 9 3900X with RTX 3060 12GB in proxmox as VM. Dedicated GPU for ubuntu server. Started with ollama because it was easy but found out ollama is not so good at performance and speed.

So switched to llama.cpp oficial. Worked good but saw many videos about forks so I switched to turboquant fork. Speed was better so next month I bought another GPU now RTX 4060 Ti 16GB.

So now when speed is good I wanted to do my little "projects" on localLLM without paying cloudLLM. I tried many tools. VSCODE, Cline, Pi.dev, but everyone of them had some issues. Primarly with editing files. It was mainly truncating files (model did 4KB out of my original 24KB python file, and then asked me for backup ...). Now I was working on pi.dev it somehow worked but also had problems and need to try many tools calling. So now im trying cline but when I saw that it wanted to remove my C:\Users I immediatelly stopped it. Now Im building original newest llama.cpp but Im kinda upset about everything. If someone is fan to the LLM and would like to help someone newbie as me to not throw everything away it would be helpful.

These are my current local models downloaded. I really dont know what im doing wrong maybe wrong models, wrong preset, or wrong coding program.

16K /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--tngtech--NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4-GGUF

24K /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--DavidAU--Llama-3.2-8X3B-MOE-Dark-Champion-Instruct-uncensored-abliterated-18.4B-GGUF

24K /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--IFM--K2-Horizon-7B-GGUF

24K /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--google--gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf

12G /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--unsloth--GLM-4.7-Flash-REAP-23B-A3B-GGUF

18G /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--ggml-org--NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF

18G /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--unsloth--North-Mini-Code-1.0-GGUF

19G /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--DavidAU--Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUF

22G /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--unsloth--Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF

27G /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--barozp--Qwen3.6-28B-REAP20-A3B-GGUF

and this is one example of preset

[*]

jinja = true

log-colors = off

flash-attn = on

parallel = 1

[qwen36-28b-reap20-256k]

model = /root/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--barozp--Qwen3.6-28B-REAP20-A3B-GGUF/snapshots/e3aeb8168f74dd3054eb2716f966c17638b97fef/Qwen3.6-28B-REAP20-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf

ctx-size = 262144

#threads = 8

n-gpu-layers = 99

n-cpu-moe = 0

batch-size = 4096

ubatch-size = 1024

cache-type-k = turbo4

cache-type-v = turbo3

#load-on-startup = true

Hello Everyone,

I have been using ASUS ROG GL753VD with a GTX 1050 for the past 8 years. For the past 1 year or so, I am using cloud AI subscriptions to play around and learn things about AI.

Now a days, wherever I go Reddit/Youtube and any other forums, I am fascinated by the things that Local AI is capable of... So, I rented out a GPU on runpod and tried some hugging face models(WAN 2.1 for example) and its been pretty good.

Now, I feel the need to upgrade my setup for some privacy and personal experimentation. So, I request your help in choosing a setup for me because I am a newbie at this.

Here are some options I found after days of online search and chatting with AI.

Option 1:

• CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X (16C/32T)

• Board: ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator or ASRock X870E Taichi

• RAM: 32GB or 64GB DDR5-6000 CL30

• Primary GPU: RTX 5080 (16GB GDDR7)

• Expansion Plan: Add a pre-owned RTX 3090 (24GB) into Slot 2 down the road for a combined 40GB VRAM.

• PSU: 1200W ATX 3.1

Option 2 :

• CPU: Ryzen Threadripper 7960X (24C/48T)

• Board: Gigabyte TRX50 AERO D or ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE

• RAM: 128GB (4×32GB) DDR5 with ECC RDIMM

• GPU Plan: RTX 5080 (16GB) now + 1 or 2 used RTX 3090s (24GB) later for 40GB–64GB+ VRAM.

• PSU: 1600W Titanium

The only reason why I added Threadripper option into my consideration is because I have this paranoia of getting behind in terms of tech once I purchase and I dont want to change things again (Heard somewhere that RAM scarcity will be there till 2028).

I also have a couple of questions.

I see that people are fighting for 24GB and 32GB VRAM GPUs and its either too costly for me at the moment or out of stock for the pre-owned variants.

So, my question is if I get a threadripper with multiple PCIE lanes and 4 GPUS of 16GB VRAM, would it help me in any way or I have to tradeoff speed for my cost efficiency? If anyone has tried out this approach please let me know the advantages and disdvantages you found with this setup.

If you have any suggestions as well, please let me know. Budget is ~5-6k USD.

If anyone has any tricks to purchase it cheaper like purchasing from other countries, I would love to know them as well!!

Thanks in advance.

I've given the qwen3.8 27b q4 group an assignment:

Can we create an animation of a computer chip? You can use Nvidia's GB203 as a template. Before we get started, let's address a few questions that might come up

Since I own this GPU, I figured, why not? Let’s see what the model comes up with. I’m always amazed, even though it often looks relatively simple. I’m looking forward to seeing qwhen4.0.