Local AI at Home: Running an LLM on Your Own Computer

Local AI at Home: Running an LLM on Your Own Computer

You don't need a cloud subscription to use AI. With the right hardware, a capable language model runs entirely on your own machine — private, fast and free.

What you need

• A GPU with 8GB+ VRAM (or a Mac with 16GB unified memory)
• Ollama or llama.cpp to serve the model
• A 7B-13B parameter model for everyday tasks

Why go local

Privacy, no subscription, and it works offline. The trade-off: smaller models than the big cloud ones — but for drafting, coding help and home automation, they are remarkably capable.