Tiles version 0.4.3 Alpha 7 has been released.
tiles.run/download
Turn-based chats with SQLite persistence. Release artifacts now include a .pkg bundle for easier installs. Support for non-Harmony models such as qwen 3.5-4b. Bug fix for venvstack generating multiple tar archives.
Tiles version 0.4.2 Alpha 6 has been released.
New onboarding flow for account and data setup, an OTA updater, and Harmony renderer support for gpt-oss-20b, enabling configurable reasoning effort and improved response quality.
Release notes: www.tiles.run/changelog#0....
Tiles runs local AI.
That means the Python runtime must be deterministic and portable across machines.
With Alpha 4, we now bundle layered venvstacks with pinned dependencies to guarantee reproducible execution.
How it works: www.tiles.run/blog/move-al...
Identity and memory are two sides of the same coin. Tiles makes that coin yours: your user-agent.
We’ve started sponsoring mzau, who’s building MLX Knife, an Ollama-like CLI tool for MLX models on Hugging Face (supports pull, rm, list, show, serve, etc).
github.com/mzau/mlx-knife
Thanks to Tom Dörr for highlighting this project.
The real bottleneck for useful AI isn’t just model quality.
It’s the walls around our data.
A thread on walled gardens, economic incentives, and why even the best models can’t help us if they can’t see us. 🧵
