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A humanoid robot reading, representing AI reasoning

how to run DeepSeek on your own computer, free — and which version you can actually fit

DeepSeek's reasoning models are free and open — but the full one needs a datacenter. The good news: the distilled versions run great on a normal PC. Here's how to run DeepSeek locally, and which size fits your hardware.

Lena Fischer · 17h ago · 9 min

Ollama vs LM Studio: which one should you actually use to run AI locally?

They're the two most popular ways to run AI models on your own computer, and both are free. The short answer: LM Studio if you want a friendly app, Ollama if you want to build. Here's the full comparison.

Ravi Malhotra · 17h ago · 9 min

An AI chat interface running locally on a computer

how to get a free, private ChatGPT alternative that runs entirely on your own computer

You don't need a subscription or an account to have a capable AI assistant. Free, open models running on your own PC give you private, offline, unlimited AI — here's how to set one up.

Lena Fischer · 17h ago · 9 min

A person setting up AI software on a computer

how to run a local AI model on your own PC in 2026 — a genuinely simple beginner's guide

Running your own AI model at home sounds technical. It isn't — you can be chatting with a private, offline AI in about five minutes with one free app. Here's exactly how.

Lena Fischer · 17h ago · 9 min

Code representing a local AI inference engine

vLLM, Ollama or llama.cpp? the three ways to run local AI, and which one is actually for you

They all run local models, but they're built for completely different people. One's for easy desktop use, one's for flexibility, one's for serving at scale. Here's how to pick without wasting a weekend.

Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 9 min

Ollama, the local-model runtime used to run open-weight LLMs on consumer GPUs

a free model on your 24GB GPU codes within 4 points of Claude Opus. meet Qwen3.6-27B

on a single 24GB card in 2026 there's no one 'best' — it's a clean three-way split: Qwen3.6-27B for coding, Gemma 4 for vision, gpt-oss-20b for raw speed. and a used RTX 3090 still competes, because this is a memory game, not a compute one.

Lena Fischer · Jul 19 · 7 min

Two graphics cards side by side, illustrating GPU VRAM tier comparison

everyone asks which local AI model is 'best.' wrong question — your VRAM already picked it

Llama 4 Scout, Qwen3.6-27B, GPT-OSS-20B, Phi-4-14B — four totally different 'best' models, and which one is yours comes down to a single number: how much VRAM your GPU actually has.

Lena Fischer · Jul 18 · 6 min