I wanted to see how useful a small local model could be on my older computer, so I gave…

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I wanted to see how useful a small local model could be on my older computer, so I gave @OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-2B a simple job. The machine: an Intel i5-9400F with 16GB of RAM, running Linux. I built MiniCPM News Desk around something I already spend time doing: keeping up with AI and tech news. ☕ On my machine, it’s connected to an hourly official source collector and configured to send one Telegram recap covering the previous 24 hours. A lead story, other meaningful updates, and quick hits with links to the original sources. Enough information to understand what happened and whether it ma
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