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Simon Willison's Weblog 2 months ago 53
Nativ is a macOS desktop application that wraps the MLX library to run AI models locally on Mac computers. The app provides a chat interface and localhost API server, and can automatically detect models in a user's Hugging Face cache directory. Users can now run vision language models on their Mac without relying on cloud services or API keys.
MarkTechPost 2 months ago 7
Meta released Astryx, an open-source design system built on React that ships with 150+ accessible components, seven themes, and a CLI tool designed to work with both human developers and AI agents. The system has been in development inside Meta for eight years and includes full TypeScript support, token-level customization, and the ability to eject component source code. Developers can now use Astryx to build applications that maintain design coherence and accessibility without being locked into a single visual aesthetic or forking components.
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19 October 2026
Nvidia’s latest open-model push set the tone for AI’s next phase: less “big chat,” more dependable agent infrastructure. Alongside its enterprise pitch, the company released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter multimodal model aimed at always-on corporate agents, and followed with Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, a locally runnable, laptop-focused variant. Artificial Analysis reports Super VL lands 26 points on its 10-benchmark Intelligence Index while using about 60% less text than the prior Nemotron 3 Super—an efficiency bump that matters when tokens are your operating cost, not your poetry. Nvidia also shifted availability toward faster, leaner deployments, including new quantized variants and updated API token pricing designed for long-running workflows.
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