Running AI Locally (Ollama)
Run a capable model on your own machine: private, free per use, and offline. What Ollama does, how to start, and the honest tradeoffs versus the big cloud models.
- Why Run a Model Yourself The four real reasons to run a local model - privacy, no per-use cost, offline access, and tinkering - and an honest read on who it suits and who it doesn't.
- Getting Started with Ollama From nothing to a working local chat: install Ollama, pull a model, talk to it in the terminal, and size up the hardware you actually need.
- Limits vs the Cloud Where a local model trails a frontier cloud model - quality, speed, and how much it can read at once - and a clear rule for choosing between them.