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At Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas this week, Google made a quiet but significant announcement: Gemini can now run on a single air-gapped server, fully disconnected from the internet — and from Google itself.

We put Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B on a developer laptop and a dual-GPU server. The speed gap grows from 2.4× to 5.3× as context grows — and the real bottleneck turns out not to be compute.

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