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New app 'Survival LLM' offers offline AI assistant for emergencies

Survival LLM is a free, open-source application that runs an AI assistant and a large offline reference library directly on a user's computer, requiring internet access only for initial setup. The tool answers emergency-related questions—such as water purification or burn treatment—by citing passages from included sources like FEMA guidance, CDC materials, survival manuals and roughly 930,000 Wikipedia articles. It automatically selects an AI model sized to the user's available memory, ranging from an 80GB model for high-memory Macs to a 6GB model for lower-spec machines.

IBM releases Granite 4.2 open-weight models with reasoning focus

IBM has released Granite 4.2, the latest addition to its open-weight, self-hostable language model lineup, offered in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. All versions use a decoder-only design and support a 128,000-token context window, while the 8B and 30B models add agentic reinforcement learning that trains them to use tools like web search and terminal commands.