Free AI Runs Your Smart Home Like a Supercharged Siri

A free AI model called Qwen 3.6 35B is getting attention for being really good at everyday assistant tasks—not coding. A user reports it reliably sets smart lights, sends grocery lists to a phone when arriving at Walmart, reminds them to clock in, and even messages family members. It runs on two older Tesla P100 graphics cards and responds at 120-140 words per second, fast enough for natural conversation. That's like having a supercharged Siri that actually follows through.

The user loves that it's fast and stays on task, even if it makes small mistakes. It even installed a Minecraft mod pack on a different computer through an app. But it's bad at holding a persona—like pretending to be Jarvis from Iron Man—and it's not good for coding projects. The user still pays for Anthropic's Claude for coding. They worry future models will focus too much on coding and lose these general assistant skills.

For normal people, this points to a future where a free AI can handle your daily digital chores: sending messages, managing reminders, controlling smart home devices. Right now, it requires technical setup and specific hardware, but the fact that it works at all is a big step toward a truly useful personal AI that doesn't cost a monthly fee. The catch: it's not perfect and still needs a tech-savvy person to run it.