
How to Run AI Agents Locally on Your Own Hardware
Open-weight models now rival GPT-4o and o1. Here's how to run an AI agent locally: hardware, quantization, MCP tool access, and the real cost math.

Open-weight models now rival GPT-4o and o1. Here's how to run an AI agent locally: hardware, quantization, MCP tool access, and the real cost math.

Open-weight models like gpt-oss-120b now run on enterprise hardware from $2K to $30K. Here's the playbook and the real break-even math against your SaaS bill.

Local LLMs feel dumb because of defaults, not weak models. Fix context length, quantization, chat templates, and sampling to close the gap with APIs.