Any local open source AI model you would recommend?

Are there people in the community trying/testing the open source local AI models? If yes, any recommendation? Did you find a model that fits your regular expectations or even competes with the closed source private AIs? I suppose it depends on the hardware performance and on the expectations/work of the user, but just curious to know your respective experience. And it is highly probable that your recommendation changes every month… PS: from the various answers I am reading i understand that recommendations depend on the material i am using and on what i want to do with it. I have a very basic equipment with 8GB vram 4060 with 32GB of RAM. I do not really know to which extent i can ask a local AI to do something. I mostly saw demonstrations of people asking the AI to make html games, a snake, flappy bird game, to automate some simple tasks, to generate web pages, in a sense i can understand the hype on the other hand on my side i just have a feeling of not knowing what to do with it. It will just hallucinate, or reply in loop… i do not see myself extra spending for a few GB more of VRAM, on the other hand i do not want to use the models of these big AI companies… privacy, freedom, self-autonomy… Maybe the question i should ask is for what kind of activities/hobbies/work do you use local AI (which one?)? How performant is it from your point of view?