EPISODE 2: LOCAL AI & AUTOMATION EDITION — June 3, 2026

🖥️ HOLO 3.1 — COMPUTER-USE AGENT THAT RUNS LOCALLY
H Company out of France dropped Holo 3.1, an open-source computer-use agent model. It understands GUIs, navigates screens, clicks buttons — all running fully local on your MacBook, PC, or DGX. GGUF checkpoints range from 0.8B to 35B parameters, and the 35B variant scores 79.3% on AndroidWorld. It beats Qwen3.5-397B, Kimi-K2.5, and even Sonnet 4.6 on computer-use tasks. If you've wanted a local AI that can actually control your desktop, this is the closest thing yet.

📦 MODEL CATALOG — ONE-CLICK LOCAL AI
A new app called Model Catalog makes running open-source models dead simple. It auto-detects your hardware, one-click downloads models, and runs everything 100% offline. Supports Ollama and llama.cpp under the hood, with curated model picks, quant selection, and capability badges for reasoning, vision, code, and tool use. No accounts. No data leaving your machine. Think Steam for local LLMs.

🏠 ODYSSEUS — PEWDIEPIE SHIPS A SELF-HOSTED AI WORKSPACE
Yes, that PewDiePie. After about a year of work, he released Odysseus — a free, open-source self-hosted AI workspace. It's not a model itself, but a full local ChatGPT/Claude alternative that plugs into Ollama, OpenRouter, or any API. Features include AI agents, memory, document management, email and calendar integration, and deep research. Python setup required, but the goal is clear: a private, fully-controlled AI hub on your own hardware.

🪟 WINDOWS AGENT FRAMEWORK GOES OPEN SOURCE
At Build 2026, Microsoft open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework under MIT license. They also launched the Windows Agent Store with an 85/15 revenue split for developers, and Copilot Workspace exited beta to full availability. Azure Agent Mesh was announced for Q4. Microsoft is betting big on agents as the next platform layer — and they want developers building on it.

🛠️ LOCAL CODING AGENTS GAINING TRACTION
Tools like OpenCode, Continue.dev, Cline, Void, and Swim Code are seeing rapid adoption for agentic coding workflows that run entirely on local models. Community consensus: open-source models now reach near-Claude quality for coding and reasoning when run locally. Between Holo for computer control and these tools for coding, the fully local AI workstation is becoming reality.

That's your local AI and automation roundup. Links and full transcripts at the usual spot.