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Gemma 4 runs on consumer hardware, beats models four times its size, and made local AI viable. But the version you download isn’t the one that produced the benchmarks, and “open weights” still doesn’t mean “open source.”
Claude Code costs nothing if you run it on alternative models. Ollama gives you GLM-5.1 from the cloud or Gemma 4 locally, OpenRouter hands you Elephant Alpha for free. The trade-off? No Claude under the hood, but surprisingly solid results at zero cost.
TinyAgentOS is a self-hosted AI agent platform that runs on whatever hardware you have lying around: an old laptop, a Raspberry Pi, a gaming PC, or all of them at once. It bundles a full desktop environment, an app store, agent deployment, and a distributed compute cluster into a single web dashboard, and it supports 15 agent frameworks, 43 MCP plugins, and 97 vetted local model manifests. The project is still pre-beta, but the backend, memory system, and multi-framework group chat already work.
OpenClaw 4.22 adds two major model providers (Tencent Hy3 and xAI’s full suite), gives agents a voice, and introduces a terminal mode that works without the Gateway. The Telegram situation, however, remains messy.