AI, infrastructure, and the tools shaping the future
Open-source models now match cloud performance for most tasks. A MacBook with 48GB of RAM runs Llama 70B. The question isn't whether local AI is viable — it's whether you can afford the risk of not owning your cognitive infrastructure.
Alibaba's Qwen team released a model called Qwen3-Coder-Next. The name says coding. The benchmarks say something much bigger. Why open-source naming conventions are hiding the real revolution.
Personal AI infrastructure isn't theoretical anymore. People are managing email, calendar, documents, and memory through AI assistants running on their own hardware. Here's the actual workflow and why most people won't adopt it.
Every major AI lab is building systems that forget on purpose. The technology for persistent memory exists. The decision not to use it tells you everything about how this industry thinks.