The latest articles on DEV Community by Darth_Ruzin (@ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8). https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3774037%2F812bb82f-5879-49ad-9d96-ebf1f7fc63bf.png https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8 en Darth_Ruzin Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:49:09 +0000 https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8/stenoai-v029-blown-away-by-qwen35-models-2i7l https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8/stenoai-v029-blown-away-by-qwen35-models-2i7l <p>Hey guys, I'm the lead maintainer of an opensource project called StenoAI, a privacy focused AI meeting intelligence, you can find out more here if interested - <a href="https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8/stenoai-privacy-focused-ai-meeting-intelligence-380-github-stars-1000-downloads-4o1m">https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8/stenoai-privacy-focused-ai-meeting-intelligence-380-github-stars-1000-downloads-4o1m</a> . It's mainly aimed at privacy conscious users, for example, the German government uses it on Mac Studio.</p> <p>Anyways, to the main point, saw this benchmark yesterday post release of qwen3.5 small models and it's incredible, the performance relative to much larger models. I was wondering if we are at an inflection point when it comes to AI models at edge: How are the big players gonna compete? A 9b parameter model is beating gpt-oss 120b!!</p> ai opensource programming productivity Darth_Ruzin Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:11:16 +0000 https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8/stenoai-privacy-focused-ai-meeting-intelligence-380-github-stars-1000-downloads-4o1m https://dev.to/ruzin_saleem_2b30cf073fd8/stenoai-privacy-focused-ai-meeting-intelligence-380-github-stars-1000-downloads-4o1m <p>Hi all, I maintain an open-source project called <strong>StenoAI</strong>. I’m happy to answer questions or go deep on architecture, model choices, and trade-offs as a way of giving back.</p> <p><strong>What is StenoAI</strong></p> <p>StenoAI is a privacy-first AI meeting notetaker trusted by teams at AWS, Deliveroo, and Tesco. No bots join your calls, there are no meeting limits, and your data stays on your device. StenoAI is perfect for industries where privacy isn't optional - government, healthcare, defence &amp; finance/legal.</p> <p><strong>What makes StenoAI different</strong></p> <ul> <li>Fully local transcription + summarisation keeping your data private. We really focus on summarisation quality using local models.</li> <li>Ask StenoAI feature - chat with your meeting transcripts</li> <li>Multi-Language Support - Supports up to 10 most commonly spoken languages - English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese &amp; Korean. 2 more than Granola!</li> <li>supports larger models (7B+) than most Open Source options, we don't limit to upsell</li> <li>Remote Ollama Server Support - run your your own models on a Mac mini or private server on network and connect directly with StenoAI (great for enterprise users) </li> <li>strong UX: folders, search, Google &amp; Outlook Calendar integration</li> <li>Cloud API Support (Not recommended) - OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenAI comaptible APIs Supported </li> <li>StenoAI Med for private structured clinical notes is on the way</li> </ul> <p>If this sounds interesting and you’d like to shape the direction, suggest ideas, or contribute, we’d love to have you involved. We have an active community and continuously growing. Thank you :)</p> <p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai</a><br> Discord: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/DZ6vcQnxxu" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://discord.com/invite/DZ6vcQnxxu</a></p> ai opensource showdev programming