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The edge AI journal

Practical writing on local inference, NPU tuning, cluster scaling and the case for owning your compute.

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Featured · Launch

Introducing the Developer Edition: local coding models you own

Run CodeGemma, Qwen2.5-Coder, DeepSeek-Coder and StarCoder2 on one node — and Kimi-Dev across a cluster. Why we built it, and how it keeps your source on your metal.

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Launch · Privacy

Meet AgentBox Home, powered by Salamandra

A private, multilingual family AI that runs locally on a box you own — built on an ethically trained, public-domain model.

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Why we built the Privacy Key

How encryption works on AgentBox, what the optional hardware key adds over a PIN, and why owning your AI matters.

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How fast is a 7B model on a 6 TOPS NPU?

Tokens/sec across quantization levels and context lengths on the RK3588 — and where clustering changes the math.

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