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Local AI in .NET: ONNX Runtime, Ollama and Foundry Local
Run LLMs locally in .NET with ONNX Runtime GenAI, Ollama and Foundry Local: small language models, GPUs and NPUs, quantization and IChatClient.
Local & On-Device AI
11 articles about Local & On-Device AI: in-depth .NET and AI guides, senior interview questions and AI news on DotNet AI Hub.
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WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK
WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK explained: packaged vs unpackaged apps, windowing, app lifecycle, Fluent controls, Windows AI APIs and deployment.
AI News 9
NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for About $12.9 Billion
NVIDIA signed a deal to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion and pledged to keep the hub open. What it means for developers who rely on open models.
Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8, Its First Qwen-Max-Class Open-Weight Model
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8 in August 2026, its first Qwen-Max-class open-weight model: a 2.4T MoE with 95B active parameters, followed by a 27B model.
Anthropic Says It Has Never Sought a Ban on Open-Weights Models
Dario Amodei said on July 27, 2026 that Anthropic has never sought a ban on open-weights models and backs chip controls and safety tests for all capable models.
Google Releases Gemma 4 Open Models Under Apache 2.0, From Phones to a Single GPU
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 in April 2026, multimodal open models from E2B to 31B, and moved Gemma to the Apache 2.0 license for the first time.
Mistral Small 4: Apache 2.0 Model Unifies Reasoning, Coding and Vision
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4 in March 2026, an Apache 2.0 open-weight 119B MoE model with 6.5B active parameters that unifies chat, reasoning and coding.
Apple Picks Google Gemini to Power Its Next Foundation Models and Siri
Apple and Google agreed that Gemini will underpin the next Apple Foundation Models and a more personalized Siri. What the partnership means for developers.
OpenAI Releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b in August 2025, its first open-weight language models since GPT-2, under Apache 2.0 for reasoning and tool use.
Alibaba Releases Qwen3: Apache 2.0 Open Models with Hybrid Thinking Modes
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3 in April 2025: eight Apache 2.0 open-weight models, from 0.6B to a 235B MoE, that switch between thinking and fast modes.
DeepSeek-R1 Release: MIT-Licensed Open Reasoning Model Rivals OpenAI o1
DeepSeek-R1 arrived in January 2025 as an MIT-licensed open-weight reasoning model that DeepSeek says matches OpenAI o1, and it shook AI markets within a week.