Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

The new SmolVLM models are available in 256M and 500M parameter sizes SmolVLM can analyse images and process visual information at high speeds The open-source models are available with an Apache 2.0 ...

When Max Vallot and Tom Daly first got into running, it was primarily as a hangover cure. They’d link up to do laps around Regent’s Park in London together to cleanse themselves of indie nights out ...

In a previous article, I ran LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 5, and although I was able to get it working in less than 5 minutes, it took around 17 minutes to run even the most basic task, thereby making it ...

Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models trained on large-scale internet data and robot demonstrations have the potential to serve as generalist robot policies. However, despite their large-scale ...

Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization pioneer VMware in late 2023 sent ripples through the tech industry that unsurprisingly focused on the skyrocketing price increases of as much as ...

Organisations using vSphere 8 have until October 2027 to migrate to vSphere 9 before product support ends, with additional costs needing to be considered beyond the complexity of migrating potentially ...

For fixing Windows errors, we recommend Fortect: Fortect will identify and deploy the correct fix for your Windows errors. Follow the 3 easy steps to get rid of Windows errors: Follow these steps to ...

After 2 October 2025, VMware version 7 will no longer be supported, and organisations will need to consider how they take their server virtualisation strategy forward. Shane O’Rourke, senior director ...