Testing LFM 2.5 in Local AI Agent Workflows: Speed, Templates, and Trade-offs

Running local LLMs for agentic tasks often feels like balancing a scale: you want the reasoning depth of a massive model, but you need the blistering token-per-second (tps) throughput required for recursive loops, tool-calling, and multi-step agent environments. When Liquid AI released the LFM 2.5…

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SearXNG as a Private Search API for LLM Agents: What It Is, What It Is Not, and How to Run It

SearXNG has become a standard building block in local and private LLM stacks. Tens of thousands of GitHub stars, Docker one-liners, and built-in integrations in agent frameworks make it look like a drop-in privacy tool. That picture is only half right. The other half is how it actually works, where…

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Decoding NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt: The Trade-offs of 24GB Local AI and Native 2-Bit Quantization

Local AI enthusiasts and MLOps practitioners have a new model to dissect: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB. Released with native 2-bit quantization and built to run on consumer or enterprise hardware, this vision-language model (VLM) aims to solve a very specific developer headache: fitting…

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Navigating Major Version Migrations: Automated Strategies for Large-Scale Pipeline Upgrades

Modern data platforms evolve rapidly, and staying current with orchestration frameworks is essential for security, performance, and feature access. However, migrating an enterprise-scale data infrastructure comprising thousands of distinct Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) presents a daunting…

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