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19 May
Open source background removal app and MCP
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7 May
[Open] useknockout - free SOTA background removal + super-res API alternative to remove.bg / Topaz, MIT, runs on Modal

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Released v0.6.0 of useknockout this week. Single FastAPI service, 20 endpoints deploys to Modal in one command.</p>

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6 May
CopilotKit (MIT) - Open-Source Building Blocks for Agent Apps and Generative UI

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Even with agent framework DX getting somewhat better - it's still really annoying to build real apps with them. Even a basic in-app agent chatbot

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25 Mar
New Open-Source Physical AI Models from NVIDIA GTC 2026 – Feedback & Additions Welcome

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just putting together a quick list of the new <strong>open-source physical AI / robotics models</strong> from <strong>NVIDIA GTC

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26 Mar
Nemo Code — Free Claude Code CLI alternative using NVIDIA's open models (one-command install, Docker sandboxed or local)

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Built a free alternative to Claude Code ($20-$200/mo) that uses NVIDIA's open models through the same CLI framework (FREE!).</p> <p><strong>How

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27 Mar
Good open source llm for OCR - engineer drawing title blocks

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So far I have only tried Qwen and olmOCR. My biggest struggle at the moment has been extracting a date that is oriented in a title block, where

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14 Oct
GPT-Image-style photo editing on your own GPU (12 GB+): I built a zero-setup app for Qwen-Image 2.1 on stable-diffusion.cpp

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1x5wyii/gptimagestyle_photo_editing_on_your_own_gpu_12_gb/"> <img alt="GPT-Image-style photo editing on your

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13 Apr
Mano-P: Open-source vision-only GUI agent, #1 on OSWorld (58.2%), runs on M4 Mac with 4.3GB RAM (Apache 2.0)

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We just open-sourced <strong>Mano-P 1.0</strong>, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model built specifically for GUI automation. It looks at your

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14 May
Built an open-source one-prompt-to-cinematic-reel pipeline on a single GPU — FLUX.2 [klein] for character keyframes, Wan2.2-I2V for animation, vision critic with auto-retry, music + 9-language narration in the same pipeline

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tcsqwk/built_an_opensource_oneprompttocinematicreel/"> <img alt="Built an open-source

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