Local AI Benchmarks

Reproducible benchmarks of open-weights language models running on consumer hardware. Generation speed, repetition rates, memory footprints, and cost-per-book measured across three machines spanning six years of GPU generations — with the scripts, raw outputs, and failed runs published in full.

Can AI Write a Book?
Can a local AI model actually write a novel—and can it do it on hardware normal people already own? I’m benchmarking AI book generation across older GPUs, measuring speed, repetition, memory use, editing burden, and the surprisingly tiny cost of generating a 90,000-...