Open-source and privacy-first LLMs are reshaping what people expect from AI. The chatter centers on on-device, CPU-only inference and open weights you can actually run locally. Neuphonic TTS Air lets you run frontier-quality speech on CPU in real time—no GPUs, no cloud APIs, no marginal costs [1].
On-device reality - Neuphonic TTS Air showcases true CPU real-time performance and privacy by design [1].
Open weights and conversations - Gemma open weights are now broadly accessible, sparking renewed discussion about multilingual and offline capability [3]. - The thread around Gemma highlights its past strengths (e.g., multilingual support) and a desire for ongoing open development [2], underscoring a community push toward on-device openness. - Granite 4.0 Language Models from IBM bring more open weights (GGUFs) to the community, with weights shared for broad use [3].
Code privacy and policy gaps - JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets, raising clear privacy concerns about code data in training pipelines [4].
Open-source ML project ideas - The open-source ML thread points to projects like FastVideo for video generation, illustrating how open tooling accelerates local, privacy-respecting experimentation [5].
Closing thought: the thread map today shows a clear shift toward local, open, and privacy-conscious AI—watch how licensing, on-device deployment, and code-data policies evolve next.
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Open source speech foundation model that runs locally on CPU in real-time
Open-source, privacy-focused TTS model runs on CPU; English best, multilingual roadmap; streaming forthcoming; feedback requested; Apache 2.0.
View sourceIt's been a long time since Google released a new Gemma model.
Discussion on Gemma models, open-weight releases, sizes, multimodal abilities, and notes comparing to Qwen, Mistral, GLM4 and rivals worldwide today
View sourceGranite 4.0 Language Models - a ibm-granite Collection
Community shares Granite 4.0 models, questions, benchmarks, licensing; compares with Qwen, Gemma, Mistral; requests vision, training, hardware, multimodal support, discussed.
View sourceJetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets
Article reports JetBrains' proposal to train AI models on user code; raises data-use and privacy questions.
View source[D] Open source projects to contribute to as an ML research scientist
Discussion of LLM-focused open source projects (SGLang, vLLM) and related techniques (LoRA, sparse attention) for ML researchers.
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