How We Built an Ultra-Lightweight Desktop AI Assistant (<35MB RAM) with Zero-DB RAG and Zero Bloat
If you’ve tried running desktop AI assistants recently (LM Studio, Jan, AnythingLLM, Open-WebUI), you’ve probably noticed an infuriating trend: Most desktop AI tools consume 800MB to 1.4GB of RAM before you even load a single neural weight into memory. Why? Because almost every modern AI assistant…
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- 2026-10-18 15:34 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
How We Built an Ultra-Lightweight Desktop AI Assistant (<35MB RAM) with Zero-DB RAG and Zero Bloat