Ollama
Software
Running local AI models via command line with a local API that apps can connect to
"Ollama is a little more builder oriented or developer oriented. You install it, you run a command like 'ollama run gemma4' and now you have a model running locally with an API your apps could talk to."
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Running AI models locally for privacy, cost control, latency, and understanding local vs. cloud architecture
"If you could run these models locally with something like Ollama, LM Studio, you start to understand what can happen on your own machine and what needs the cloud and what needs to touch private docs and what should stay behind the wall."
Running local AI models via command line
"There's two main names to know, Ollama and LM Studio. Ollama is usually the favorite of a lot of my developer friends because it runs from the command line."