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Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer 30B, aimed at local agents.
4-bit, it fits under 20GB, small enough to run on a single consumer GPU. Tool calling, multi-step planning, 137 languages: it beats Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B on each. Apache 2.0. The model and the agent both live on your own box now, and for once that's enough to do real work.

OpenCode free models are fully gone now.
Been a long fight. Lots of open source projects have spent months playing cat and mouse with the OpenCode team. Aug: 429 rate limits. Sep 17: 403 FreeTierError on every unofficial client. Oct 17: they started flagging datacenter IPs by ASN. One proxy pool gets tagged, the entire range 403s. As of now, residential IP direct connection or the paid Go plan are the only stable ways to hit OpenCode free models.

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.
You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.
Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.
