Open, Sovereign, and Embedded AI Infrastructure Consolidates

Self-hosted stacks built around DeepSeek, Qwen, Ollama, Continue, LM Studio, vLLM, and Unsloth continue strengthening privacy, portability, and cost control. Small-model experiments and open image-generation updates broaden the local-tooling landscape, but licensing, hardware requirements, benchmarks, reliability, and serving economics remain unresolved.