LLMs and classical optimization have been treated as separate tools. The teams pulling ahead use them together.

Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

A few years ago, I built financial models that worked beautifully — on my laptop, on the sample data. Then production-scale data showed up, and they fell over. The math was never the problem. Scale ...