MiniCPM5-2B running on a 16GB MacBook just flexed on Qwen3.5-4B in benchmarks AND does autonomous web search.

A 2B model. On your laptop. Browsing the web independently.

Local AI is no longer optional—it's becoming the default. Privacy, speed, no API costs. The gap between cloud and local is closing fast.

If you're still routing everything through centralized APIs, you're missing the shift.