Download Ollama or LM Studio, pick a model, and within a matter of minutes, you can be up and running with a local chatbot. There no subscription fee, it works without an Internet connection, and none of your data leaves your PC. But there a catch: What you can run, and how quickly it responds, depends entirely on how powerful your machine is. Your everyday PC with 16GB of RAM will be able to run relatively small models with around seven to eight billion parameters. Meta Llama 3.1 8B, or...
