Articles tagged "Local AI"

Obsidian is a local-first knowledge management tool developed by Canada-based Dynalist Inc. Since commercial use became fully free in February 2025, it has become the top PKM choice for Japanese business professionals — IT consultants, engineers, researchers, and legal practitioners alike. This guide covers everything from basic Vault setup and the new 2026 Bases feature to local LLM integration via Ollama, Zettelkasten and PARA workflows, and Japanese-language caveats, so you can start today.

A 2026 Q2 performance benchmark of Gemma 4 (E2B / E4B / 26B MoE / 31B Dense) against the major open-weights peers — Llama 4, Qwen 3.5, Mistral, and DeepSeek — across MMLU-Pro, GPQA, HumanEval, MATH-500, and MT-Bench. Adds throughput (tokens / s), memory efficiency (quality per GB VRAM), cost per million tokens, Japanese-language performance, native function calling, and Apache 2.0 / MIT / commercial-use licensing as of May 2026, plus a use-case selection matrix for in-house LLM, edge AI, coding assistants, and RAG.