Open Source Report

The big theme this month was turning LMPlayground from a chat app into an agentic, multimodal one. 1.7.0 gave capable models tools — web search, page fetch, and a JavaScript sandbox they can call mid-reply. 1.8.0 then added on-device vision: attach a photo (or snap one) and chat about it with Gemma, Qwen, or Ministral vision models, all running locally. Both Spark projects shipped 1.2.2, whose…