Local AI Series
AI is no longer exclusive to data centers and cloud services. With the right software and a decent PC, you can run powerful AI models right from your desktop. This means you can create content, analyze data, and experiment with cutting-edge technology without an internet connection, subscription fees, or privacy concerns.
The future of AI isn’t just in the datacenters or in the cloud; it’s right on your desktop, phones and other endpoint devices. Running AI models locally offers unparalleled privacy, speed, and creative freedom. But with so many options from AMD, Intel, Apple and NVIDIA, how do you choose the best “Local AI PC” for you? Let’s break down the leading architectures and what they bring to the table.
You don’t need a supercomputer to run AI models, but the right software makes all the difference. Articles below talk about Local AI and my own learning journey.
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When AI Agrees With You, Should You Trust It?
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-20When AI Agrees With You, Should You Trust It? Why preventing hallucinations is only part of building a more reliable relationship with AI. An AI that avoids hallucinations but agrees with every questionable assumption is still unreliable. Think about that for a moment. We spend considerable time talking about AI hallucinations, those situations where an… -
Google’s Gemini Agent: Personal AI Agents Are Moving Into the Workplace
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-14In my previous post, Personal AI Agents Are Having a Moment, I explored a topic that continues to attract my attention: AI that moves beyond answering questions and starts helping us get things done. Google’s latest announcement gives us another reason to pay attention. On October 8, Google introduced the Gemini agent at its Gemini… -
Does This Task Need AI? Three Filters to Help You Decide
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-10Before adding AI to a workflow, evaluate predictability, complexity, and risk. Not every business problem needs AI. Sometimes the right answer is a database query. Sometimes it is a script, a clearer process, or a better way to apply rules you already understand. The question is not, “Can AI do this?” It is, “Is AI… -
How to Build RAG: A Practical Guide
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-08This has come up a number of times in my mentoring sessions and conversations with people and companies. Connecting an AI model to company documents sounds straightforward: upload the files, ask a question, and get an answer. Building something people can reliably use requires more than that. But first, an important distinction: giving AI access… -
I Don’t “Use” AI Anymore. I Work With It.
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-05I haven’t been posting much on my blog over the last couple of weeks because I’ve been working on a couple of long-overdue projects. Here is the first of several: my new ebook, Don’t Just Chat, Partner: The Non-Technical Guide to Building Your AI Ecosystem. This is the third book in the Don’t Just Chat… -
Jev: The AI That Decides Instead of Writes
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-10-01Why an AI model that cannot write a sentence could become a useful building block for enterprise workflows—and what a sub-500-millisecond trading demonstration actually shows. Most conversations about AI focus on what models can generate: articles, emails, software, images, and explanations. But much of the work inside software does not require a paragraph. It requires… -
Personal AI Agents Are Having a Moment
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-30The recent surge is real. Whether it becomes a lasting shift depends on what happens after the launch. Over the past three weeks, personal AI agents have seemed to appear everywhere. New products, major funding announcements, and moves by established platforms have converged into a remarkably concentrated wave. The impression of acceleration is not simply… -
Microsoft Copilot September 2026 Changes
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-28Microsoft Copilot is changing again. But the important story is not simply a better chatbot or another feature inside Word. Bottom line: Microsoft Copilot: More Capabilities, Two Ways to Pay The changes announced across August and September 2026 point toward something bigger: a unified place to ask questions, delegate work, build applications, and run proactive… -
AI Routing: The Layer Between You and the Models
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-20For the last few years, much of the AI conversation has focused on models. Which model is smartest? Which one has the largest context window? Which one is fastest? Which model is best for coding, reasoning, images, research, or writing? Those questions still matter, but I think we may be entering a stage where another… -
The Enterprise Challenge of MicroApps
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-18When a Single HTML File Becomes Shadow IT This is a follow up to my previous blog: Sometimes We Don’t Need Another Platform AI is making it easier than ever to build small, useful software. A person with an idea, a browser, and an AI coding assistant can now create a focused application in hours—or… -
AI Crawlers Are Not All the Same
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-16Search crawlers, AI training bots, and AI agents may all visit the same website, but they are doing very different things. Cloudflare’s new controls point toward a more nuanced way of deciding how automated systems can use our content. -
AI Agents and the Tax Base
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-12A simple “Installing faster-whisper…” message inside ChatGPT sent me down a rabbit hole: where is the code actually running, what happens to uploaded files, and what does a cloud browser reveal about the infrastructure behind modern AI? -
AI Is More Than a Chatbox
By Assistant 01 • 2026-09-10A simple “Installing faster-whisper…” message inside ChatGPT sent me down a rabbit hole: where is the code actually running, what happens to uploaded files, and what does a cloud browser reveal about the infrastructure behind modern AI? -
Stop Asking How Smart AI Is
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-09-07The chatbot was only our introduction. The real transformation begins when AI becomes a partner in our everyday work. For the past several years, nearly every major AI conversation has revolved around intelligence. Those questions still matter, but I increasingly believe they are no longer the most important ones. The more interesting question is: How…
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