A retired teacher with no coding background built an animated avatar assistant on a local 9B model, then bridged its persistent memory into a virtual world so it inhabits two bodies.
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8 GB or lessLaptops, iGPUs and modest cards9–12 GBEntry-level local inference13–16 GBCurrent mid-range cards17–20 GBRX 7900 XT and compact pro cards21–24 GB3090, 4090 and 7900 XTX class25–32 GB5090 and workstation cards33–48 GBWorkstation and multi-GPU setups49–96 GBLarge multi-GPU and datacenter setups97 GB+Unified memory, servers and clusters
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Personal assistantGenesis archive2026-09
An avatar assistant with persistent memory shared between desktop and Second LifePersonal assistantGenesis archive2026-03
Running a real agent on Qwen 3.5 9B on an M1 Pro MacBook (16GB)A model-agnostic personal automation system switched from a cloud model to Qwen 3.5 9B on an M1 Pro MacBook with 16GB of unified memory, handled a real subset of agent work locally, and ran 0.8B/2B models on an iPhone.