We can have our own entirely local AI assistants for research and work. This is CIRU AMDots: a voice interface for a general-purpose agent team, with the AI running locally on one AMD Ryzen AI Halo. AMDots is your own little AI crew, brought to life as colorful dots. Give the main one an idea and watch its workers spring into action, exploring, researching and creating together. Keep chatting while they work, then see what they’ve made, from useful discoveries to a narrated video. The brain is MiniCPM 4.7 Ultra , CIRU HALO AGENT, my custom Q8 conversion and optimized serving stack built on OpenBMB’s vision-language MoE: 35 billion total parameters / 3 billion active per token 262,144-token model context limit Custom Ciru vLLM + AMD ROCm+DSpark On the 395: ~1,969 prompt tokens/sec and 40.5 generated tokens/sec with a roughly 64K-token prompt 122.8 aggregate generated tokens/sec across eight concurrent vision/tool requests Those are separate model-serving benchmarks; the eight-request figure is combined throughput across requests. Model, runtime and benchmark details. The voice stack uses the rest of the hardware too: GPU: conversation and worker-model inference CPU: Moonshine Small Streaming English speech recognition, 123M parameters CPU + NPU: Pocket TTS, 100M parameters, with recurrent feed-forward operations offloaded to the XDNA 2 NPU Speech synthesis stays off the GPU, leaving that compute available for the agents. Voice and workers share the language model, with live conversation taking priority. Local model inference, a visual agent workspace, and research that can become something you can watch and hear. All on a small AMD desktop. AMD provided the Ryzen AI Halo system used for this project.

AMD Agent Computers Power the Next Generation of Hollywood Studios Emmy-winning Light Sail VR uses private, local AI on Ryzen AI Max and Radeon AI PRO R9700, overseeing up to 9 projects all at once, leaving more time for storytelling. bit.ly/4AKhZjC

So excited to welcome @theworldlabs and @drfeifei to the @AMD family! I’ve always been a huge fan of Fei-Fei and her pioneering research in AI. Together, we’ll combine World Labs’ deep expertise in AI and world models with AMD’s compute leadership to power the future of AI and strengthen the open AI ecosystem. Can’t wait for all we’ll accomplish!

Everyone is asking their Opus 5.5 to "make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel for a résumé. go all out." So I asked my local Qwen Flash on my Strix Halo the same thing. No extra tools skills or instructions, just loaded it up in OMP and gave the prompt. It identified as the harness I guess but this is pretty good. Pure code.

The PC is about to become a lot more personal. Today, I’m excited to announce a partnership between @AMD and @perplexity_ai to bring Perplexity Portable Computer to AMD Ryzen AI Halo. This is more than running AI locally. We’re creating a new kind of agentic PC that can understand your work, reason through problems, and take action on your behalf, right on the device where your work happens. With one click, users can bring powerful AI models and agents to their PC, work with local files and applications, and run recurring workflows on device. When a task needs more advanced research or reasoning, Portable can tap into the cloud with permission. Your models. Your agents. Your data. Your stack. For decades, the PC has been a tool for getting things done. Personal AI changes that. The PC can now become a true partner in the work, helping turn information into insight and ideas into action. Big thank you to @AravSrinivas and the entire Perplexity team for making this possible. The PC transformed how we work and create. Now we’re creating the platform for the era of Personal AI. And this is just the beginning.