Vitalik Buterin Publishes Self-Sovereign Local LLM Setup Guide, Tests Qwen3.5:35B

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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin published a detailed blog post on April 2 advocating local-first AI: 'What kind of AI setup would we build if we took privacy, security and self-sovereignty as non-negotiable? All LLM inference local first. Sandbox everything. Be paranoid.' He shares practical experience testing Qwen3.5:35B locally for coding tasks and proposes integrating ZKP, TEE, and FHE for privacy-preserving computation. Declares 2026 the year to reclaim computing self-sovereignty.