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Survival LLM releases version 0.3.4. According to Numerama, this is a free, open-source AI assistant that runs entirely offline, capable of answering survival questions such as first aid, water purification, and storing food during power outages, with sources cited for each answer. Released on October 27, 2026, this version automatically selects a model based on device memory: Macs with more than 128 GB of memory use the 80 GB NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super, while machines with 16–31 GB of memory use the 6 GB IBM Granite 4.2 8B. In the developer's test of 22 safety and first-aid questions, the latter answered only 14 correctly, and each response consumed about 100 watts of power.
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Survival LLM: a free survival first-aid AI assistant that runs entirely offline
Survival LLM is a free, open-source AI assistant that runs entirely offline. Version 0.3.4 was released on October 27, 2026, and can answer survival questions about first aid, water purification, and storing food during power outages, citing sources for each answer. It automatically selects a model based on memory: Macs with more than 128 GB of memory use the 80 GB NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super, while machines with 16–31 GB of memory use the 6 GB IBM Granite 4.2 8B. In the developer's test of 22 safety and first-aid questions, the latter answered only 14 correctly, and each answer consumed about 100 watts of power.