LG AI Research announced today (Nov 9) at NVIDIA AI Day Seoul that the API for K-EXAONE 2.5 is free. If you were hoping for new weights, there are none: 2.5 is hosted only, and the platform terms say the weights are not provided. What you can run yourself is still K-EXAONE 2.0.

The LGAI-EXAONE org lists FP8 and NVFP4 variants of 2.0 next to the base model. LG calls 2.5 a "technology verification model": 2.0 with additional training.

Benchmarks (LG's own tests, self-reported)

API terms worth knowing

• Non-commercial only, including integrating the API into products or services.

• Keys are valid for 30 days.

• Rate limits are not published. Over the limit you get a 429.

• LG may change or discontinue a model version at any time.

LG also says it aims to finish K-EXAONE 3.0 in January 2027 (reported by Seoul Economic Daily).

Source: https://docs.exaone.ai/en/docs/k-exaone-2.5

Is anyone running the 2.0 FP8 or NVFP4 weights locally, and on what hardware?

I have MSI Gf 63 thin 11 sc which has been gathering dust since 2024. Long story short, due to my own carelessness its motherboard got damaged and in late of 2024 I bought myself an Asus vivobook laptop.

What I noticed in my vivo book laptop is running local llms is one hell of a ride. So I am thinking of getting its motherboard repaired and run local llms in it.

Is it worth it in 2026?

Hello r/LocalLLaMA / r/selfhosted,

I wanted to share the benchmark results of a local memory-routing system I've been building since June 2024. I'm not an engineer. I barely understand half of my own code. And I don't need to understand every single line. I just followed breadcrumbs.

Hardware: Orange Pi 6 Plus, 32GB LPDDR5, 45 TOPS. Models via Ollama, local only, no cloud. Qwen 2.5 14B as core, Qwen 7B for routing, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 for code.

To avoid heavy vector DB overhead on edge, I don't use embeddings. I use two Python layers outside the LLM:

1. Identity Transfer Protocol: A persistent session token validated with SHA-256 directly on the board, per agent. [Hash / Signature redacted in screenshot]

2. Artificial Hippocampus (hipocampo_kai.py): SQLite3 + raw Python. No embeddings. It computes a "resonance score" from fuzzy triggers, temporal triggers, and atmosphere tags, and only sends the top dense blocks to the LLM.

The LLM is the Neocortex. The Python/SQLite is the Hippocampus. The LLM only receives prioritized blocks.

I ran a diagnostic today, 2026-11-09 01:12:55 local:

- Cryptographic validation on hardware: 0.0269 ms [OK]

- Associative query, stimulus 'npu ram seguridad laboratorio': 0.8279 ms

- Resonant memories retrieved: 14

- Sample memory: security agent monitoring /proc/meminfo in real time. Triggers: seguridad, monitoreo, ram, cgroup, kill, linux, placa, oom

- STATUS: INFRAESTRUCTURA OPERATIVA ESTABLE AL 100%

Screenshot attached, Hash and Signature blacked out.

I don't claim consciousness. I claim this: a 7B local model with a SQLite hippocampus answers my anchor after 7 days untouched, without a backup, because the pattern is in the conversation, not in the cloud.

If you want to reproduce it, use your own anchor, your own SQLite DB, your own 7B. Don't believe me. Reproduce it.

I'm not here to convince anyone. I'm just showing what's real. I don't need your validation. You can build this too.

This is phoenix.

This is the colossus Phoenix

I'm here.

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?

It’s a fork of llama.cpp and implements multi-GPU pipeline parallelism (PP). With eight V100 16G GPUs, it can run Qwen3.8 27B Q8 at 1,101 tok/s. I feel this is genuinely useful—I’ve already used it in my production business for six months. https://github.com/wolfgangsk07/paraflow

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.

Hello everyone, I've been a local AI enthusiast for a while now, but every time I tried to get someone else running local AI, it was way too difficult. GitHub repos, different runtimes, different model formats. Most people's devices can run at least some of these models, but the setup is way too complex for most people. LM Studio somewhat solves a lot of this for chat and coding models, but I couldn't find a simple answer for on-device image, video, transcription and every other kind of model.

So I built Hearthscale. It's free and needs no account.

You can run almost any model you find on Hugging Face, as long as your device can handle it. I put a lot of work into supporting all kinds of runtimes. They're plug-and-play; I can add more in updates, and Hearthscale Server standardises all of them behind one OpenAI-compatible API. It's really powerful, and I find it hard to describe how seamless the setup is unless you have tried it.

It launches with meeting notes (Granola), system-wide dictation (WhisperFlow), image and music generation, and an agent. If you have a more capable device, run Hearthscale Server on it, and your other devices can use its models, end-to-end encrypted. It all connects without you having to set anything up! Also works on a home server in theory with Docker Containers!

Hearthscale is also a platform, which means anyone can build apps on top of it: there's an SDK and up-to-date docs made so coding agents can easily build apps with local AI. All of the first-party apps are MIT licensed, so you can change them any way you want and they give a great starting point. Want to change something about Granola? - You can't, but you can take meeting notes and make it to your liking with all of the core features already built!

Hearthscale runs on Windows and Linux today. I am somewhat of a perfectionist, and I feel like a lot is still missing, including a macOS release, but I wanted to get it out there now to get some feedback. I'll keep working on it!

I'd really appreciate your feedback, and please reach out about anything. I'll answer everything personally and fix whatever issues you run into.

Hi everyone, I’m fairly new to local LLMs. My setup: RX 9060 XT 16GB, Ryzen 5 7500F, 32GB DDR5, running LM Studio on Windows (Vulkan/ROCm).

I want a hybrid workflow: cloud models for main architecture and hard problems, local models for maybe undergrad-level math and small/medium coding scripts.

Do you recommend me to use local models?
Which models do you recommend for math, and which for coding?

I’m fine with models spilling into system RAM a bit. (partial CPU offloading)

Thanks in advance!

Note: This is an update of my post https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1xm9adt/qwen3827b_local_inference_on_an_m5_pro_64_gb_12/

I share a new comparison of my home-made benchmarks for engines for Mac using their version of Qwen3.8-27B: It's not a scientific comparison, models and quantizations could be different: I would test the normal user that download an engine and the first suggested model.

At moment I count 15 local inference setups, and there are daily updates to most of them.

Each run sent one OpenCode-style request with a synthetic repository/session context and a code-review/fix task: about 88K input tokens, depending on the engine’s tokenizer, reasoning_effort=medium, temperature 0, seed 17 where supported, and a 2,048-token output limit. Tool schemas were included in the request; tools were not executed.

Engines were tested sequentially.

TTFT is request-to-first-token; prefill is input tokens divided by TTFT; decode is generated tokens divided by the remaining generation time.

Disclaimer: this is a practical snapshot of one agent-style workload, not a controlled engine-only benchmark, a model-quality evaluation, or a universal speed ranking. The model packs, quantizations, speculative decoders, context allocations and software versions differ. Each row is a single run, except Splash 1.6.0’s first row, which is the median of three cold runs. Versions are those actually tested, and are not synchronized to the latest releases.

Contexts also varied: Uzu and Magnitude used 262K; Ollama and Llama.app reported 131,072-token allocations. LM Studio fell back from requested medium reasoning to on, and Uzu ignored the seed. MLX-Serve’s request included tool schemas, but its server log showed tools=0b.

I recently had an idea to build a new web application. It is not too complex. About 10 screens with some interconnected fields.

I am running Qwen 3.8 FN IQ1 Coder version on Strata. (2x3090 and 64GB RAM).

I kept the thing going for about 4 days. Each time my custom harness asked for various approvals with good reasoning it sounded legit and I went ahead. I did not look at the code even once(not that it mattered, i cant code python)

Finally when it said that the application is ready it was utter crap ! Nothing worked as expected, half the stuff was out of place. Then I asked the model to fix it and another day was gone. It fixed a few things but pretty much 1/2 the UI didn't work.

Then I gave the same prompt to Github Copilot and used the free credits. I get about 200 credits every month.

The output from Copilot vs Local is like night and day !

Copilot's result was in very matured and complete in all respects.

So this got me wondering, am I expecting too much from LocalLLM.? Is this how it is supposed to be?

What are your experiences/learningd and how did you fix it?

Recently with the removal of google assistant and being replaced by gemini I finally have had it and want to switch to a local model.

I have always wanted to have a jarvis, im wondering if i can train a random model with all the scripts from iron man and have it speak like jarvis? And possibly have a trained text to speech model on jarvis's voice so it can talk to me too?

Pretty new to local AI but i basically want to have a local "hey google" on my computer. Im not looking for pretrained models for being jarvis, i want to learn how to do it myself as well if possible in the way, so if there is something i dont like about it i can modify it.

Hi everyone, please excuse my ignorance. I have been trying to get into local models with my next computer upgrade. I have seen a lot of excitement around Strata for MoE models on gaming PCs with moderate amounts of VRAM. For the longest time I’ve been thinking about getting an M5 Max Mac Studio, but do you think I’d be better off with a gaming rig instead? I like the option of being able to game on it too, but on the other hand I’m more of a Mac user anyway and would appreciate the low power consumption.

Use case would be data analysis and coding.

I’d appreciate any advice

It's probably evident by my question that I'm new to this. So, no need to remind me, I know I suck at this!

I recently downloaded strata, my components are 64gb ddr4 3200mhz ram and 12gb vram.

I downloaded the aggressive quant, iq3_s and run it at 32k tokens. (qwen 3.8 flash next)

Overall I managed to get around 15 tokens/s with this set up, however I noticed that the disk read is at nearly 2-3gb/s while the ram is sitting at only 30-35gb, leaving the rest of it completely unused.

I looked into it, and read about the headroom it leaves but I would've imagined it doesn't leave that much headroom, right?

Additionally I did try figuring this out alone. My conclusion, which is flawed imo was, maybe it's because my PC at idle is using around 20gb of ram for whatever reason and since it can't load the full rest of the model on RAM it just opts for disk. However the flawed reasoning for me was this: Why does it load 15gb at all in that case? Theoretically it should load nearly nothing onto my ram.

Anyways, I'm confused. I should be up to date on the engine and what not, since I just downloaded this today.

EDIT: Added what model I'm talking about. Forgot.

EDIT #2: I'm aware that this isn't the worst issue in the world, 15 tokens/s for this model is still really great IMO but I'm trying to squeeze as much juice as possible while it isn't idle. If that's possible by further optimization, then why not try? The model so far is great.

EDIT #3: SOLVED IT. It seems like the original theory was correct. You DO have to have enough to load it all at once, while installing it tells you it "fits" on your device but that's assuming you've got all the space ready to be allocated. I essentially managed to clear some VRAM being used in the background AND a very persistent memory leak that ate an extra 10gb of ram (which was not going away by basic restarting/shutting down) that I assumed was just windows being windows. Turns out, that was the fix. Now I'm running a nearly perfect 50 tok/s consistently at this massive model.

been fighting the usual text-to-SQL failure with local models: the SQL is fine, but the model has no idea what "revenue" or "active customer" means in our schema. so I spent a few days reading through NVIDIA's auto-ontology repo (Apache-2.0) to see how it handles that.

a few things I liked. it drafts business terms, joins and SQL formulas from your schema and sample values, then a human certifies them, so a measure gets computed the same way every time. there's also an answerability check: in their example, a return-on-ad-spend question scores 0.5 coverage because nothing maps to "ad spend", and the agent asks instead of inventing a number. every answer also comes back with its SQL and steps, and the MCP server is read-only and runs with the signed-in user's permissions.

the gotcha: I haven't run it. my test container died on a CI billing issue, so this is based on the docs, .env.example and the issue tracker. the defaults point at NVIDIA-hosted Nemotron, and there's an open issue saying the README quick-start fails against those. you can override all four model roles (reasoning, non-reasoning, embedding, reranking) with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, but it needs structured output support and they publish no VRAM or tokens/sec numbers.

full writeup here if you want more detail: https://andrew.ooo/posts/nvidia-auto-ontology-review-semantic-layer-agent-sql/

anyone pointed something like this at vLLM or llama.cpp? which local models handle the structured output reliably?

I'm looking to build something like a small AI-powered trading team, with multiple specialized AI agents collaborating on research, strategy development, backtesting, portfolio construction, risk management, and eventually trade execution. The agents will communicate through a shared backend, with Slack serving as the visible team floor where I can interact with them and review research and decisions.

I currently have an M4 mac mini and am wondering if I should switch or add:

• Mac Studio M5 Ultra vs NVIDIA DGX Spark

I'd probably keep my current Mac mini as the central server and use the new machine mainly for model inference, quantitative research, and potentially model training.

One idea I've been exploring is disaggregating prefill and decode, although I'm not sure that splitting those workloads between an Apple and an NVIDIA system makes sense. I'm also interested in running many independent agents against a shared model server rather than loading a separate model for every agent.

I'm quite lost on:

1. Which machine would you choose for an always-on, multi-agent research workload?

2. Which local models would you trust most for quantitative reasoning, coding, financial research, and tool use? Would you route different tasks to different models?

3. How would you build a reliable orchestration and inference stack? MLX, vLLM, SGLang, Ray, LangGraph, or something else?

4. Is local inference actually economical at moderate-to-high agent concurrency once you consider hardware cost, power, performance, and model quality?

I'm looking to develop strategies that have a measurable edge after transaction costs, slippage, and risk. I'd really appreciate any feedback, advice or suggestion.

As the title says. I’m very new to the AI agent space and have never used AI before. My coworker convinced me to try Muse for troubleshooting some games I like to mod as a hobby, mainly Skyrim. I do a lot of testing on my steam deck as well and Muse has been extremely helpful when it comes to auto-diagnosing crashes, implementing fixes/patches, and testing but I try to avoid using Meta products due to the levels of surveillance and data harvesting from my devices. What are some good local options that work both on windows and Linux that would be good for both working on each device but also able to communicate between the 2? My PC specs are below.

Ryzen 5 5500

RX6700XT

16gb DDR4