Generate Apps Locally for Free: App.build Now Supports Open Source Models

The app.build framework now supports open-source large language models, enabling users to generate complete applications locally. This local generation capability eliminates cloud API costs, avoids rate limits, and ensures data privacy by keeping code and ideas on the user's machine. The platform integrates with local inference tools like Ollama and LMStudio, as well as the OpenRouter service for accessing a wider variety of models. While the performance of smaller, locally-run open-source models for complex agentic tasks currently lags behind large proprietary APIs, the technology is rapidly improving.