Perspectives on offline AI and enterprise technology.
On offline AI, local LLM performance, AI privacy, and the future of how organizations build and operate software they actually own.
66-Year-Old Solo Developer Launches Burritt AI Studio With Private 125B AI on 8GB Computers
Ken Rheingans introduces a private, offline AI studio on a USB drive, bringing chat, research, images, music and teaching tools to MacBook Neo, MacBook Air and Windows PCs.
The AI Digital Divide: What You Don't Know Is Already Costing You
The real divide is not whether you have AI. It is the gap between what most leaders think AI can do and what it can actually do right now, in production.
The Private Dark Software Factory: The New Economics of Enterprise Software
A 100-person offshore team runs $4 to $8 million per year. That math just broke. Autonomous AI development, hosted on your own infrastructure, is the new baseline.
Watch Ken Rheingans explore private, offline AI on everyday computers, from MacBook Air and MacBook Neo to a budget Windows laptop.
PhD-level AI on an M1 MacBook Air
Meet Burritt AI Studio and explore private, offline AI on an M1 MacBook Air. Ask questions about your documents and create pictures and songs while keeping your information on your computer.
125-billion-parameter AI on MacBook Neo and Air
Explore powerful, private AI on Macs with 8 GB of memory. Burritt AI Studio offers seven AI levels, including a 125-billion-parameter model, so you can choose between a quicker answer and deeper thinking with the internet off.
30-billion-parameter AI on a budget Dell laptop
Ken runs NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model on a used Dell Latitude with 16 GB of memory and no dedicated graphics card. Learn how streaming selected model data from the SSD lets the laptop run a model larger than its physical memory.