Pattern: First-Party Local and On-Device Agent Runtimes Are Spreading

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Microsoft (Foundry-Local), alongside community runtimes like LocalAI and cua's local sandboxes, point to a growing first-party push to run agent workloads on-device with GPU acceleration and OpenAI-compatible APIs. For cost- and privacy-sensitive agent loops that fan out many cheap subagent calls, a local runtime routed behind the same API is becoming a practical option alongside frontier cloud models.