
Nader Khalil🍊
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Nader Khalil🍊
@NaderLikeLadder
Director of Developer Tech @ NVIDIA, Co-founder/CEO https://t.co/GCUjRDOu73 acquired by NVIDIA • I laugh til I cry it's not the same on zoom •YC W20 | UCSB • views are my own



DROP EVERYTHING The first panel from the Local AI Summit at AIEWF is now live “State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now” Featuring leaders from NVIDIA, Roboflow, Osmantic, Forward Future, and EXO Labs


State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now — NVIDIA, Osmantic, Roboflow, EXO... youtu.be/KB41dTlX1Uc?si… Coffee and Local AI. Great Saturday CC: @TheAhmadOsman @alexocheema @NVIDIAAI @NaderLikeLadder




Alex joining us on the commute this morning 🤩🤙

🔥 Last ThursdAI, we covered the @aiDotEngineer live from the expo hall, and it was a BIG episode (almost 3 hours). We kicked off the show with local.ai effort, with @alexocheema and @0xSero as scheduled and the full of energy @NaderLikeLadder from @NVIDIAAI dropping in as an unscheduled but oh so welcome surprise! We dig into why local AI and freedom of intelligence matter, the announcement of Local.ai (launched in early access at the conference), the upcoming Exo CLI for running vLLM on consumer devices, and the risk of open source models being banned. NVIDIA's Nader Khalil crashes the party to talk about the Local AI Summit and GLM 5.2 running on a station. Timestamps: 0:00 - Meet Alex Cheema & 0xSero from Exo Labs 0:46 - What Exo Labs does & why they started 3:09 - Why running AI locally matters 4:29 - Wolfram on local AI & AI in your basement 5:50 - Announcing Local.ai and the Exo CLI 8:47 - The local AI consortium & who's involved 9:37 - The real risk of open source models being banned 12:07 - Surprise guest: Nader Khalil (NVIDIA) on the Local AI Summit 14:00 - Deep dive: REAP pruning GLM 5.2, 71% on Terminal Bench 2.1 15:30 - Wrap-up & where to find Local.ai For the full show please check out thursdai.news/ep/jul-02-2026



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