[Vitalik Shares Local LLM Personal Setup, Calls for Building More Secure, Open-Source, Localized, Privacy-Focused AI Tools] According to a report by Jinse Finance, on April 2, Vitalik Buterin published a blog post sharing his autonomous, local, private, and secure LLM personal setup. The core configuration includes an NVIDIA 5090 GPU laptop, the Qwen3.5:35B model, llama.cpp inference tool, bubblewrap sandbox isolation, NixOS system, as well as custom proxies and local knowledge bases to reduce reliance on remote services. Vitalik stated that, if used properly, artificial intelligence can actually create a future with stronger privacy and security guarantees. Locally generated code can replace the need to download large, complex external libraries, enabling more software to achieve minimalism and self-containment. Vitalik also called on more people to dedicate themselves to building secure, open-source, localized, privacy-focused AI tools, allowing users to use them with peace of mind and putting control and power back into the hands of users.