Why it matters
Local AI has crossed from interesting to useful, driven by stronger open models, better hardware, and a maturing ecosystem for running intelligence outside the cloud. This panel explores what that shift unlocks for sovereignty, defense, regulated industries, privacy, cost, and resilience, and why open-source AI may be
My takeaway: State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now — NVIDIA, Osmantic, Roboflow, EXO Labs, @matthew_berman is a governance signal. The practical read is to map the policy language into controls, audit evidence, ownership, and reporting expectations for deployed AI systems.