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Small Models, Big Opportunity: The Case for Local-First AI Agents

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Small Models, Big Opportunity: The Case for Local-First AI Agents Two days ago, HN lit up with "Small Models Have Arrived." Today, GLM-5.3 went open-weight to a 581-point, 204-comment thread. Meanwhile, the deepseek-harness project — "Everything is a Plugin" — just crossed 200,000 GitHub stars, up…

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