I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.

I tested local AI on my M1 Mac, expecting magic - and got a reality check instead

At random, I chose glm-4.7-flash, from the Chinese AI startup Z.ai. Weighing in at 30 billion "parameters," or neural weights, GLM-4.7-flash would be a "small" large language model by today's ...
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DeepMind releases AlphaGenome source code, aiming to improve its AI predictions of gene regulation

Google DeepMind announced it was making AlphaGenome’s source code and weights available to the science community for ...
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Cocoon-AI/mcp-perforce

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides a clean interface for Perforce (P4) operations in Claude Desktop. This server wraps P4 commands to make them more reliable and easier for Claude to ...
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Federal Reserve Economic Data MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing universal access to all 800,000+ Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED®) time series through three powerful tools. This ...