MIT Technology Review's How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It's a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs-models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in principle, be downloaded and run...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How to run an LLM on your laptop In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run anything useful on...