Run ChatGPT locally, no cloud needed
users can now run large language models on their own computers for offline access and greater privacy.
large language models llms powering ai bots like chatgpt and gemini can now be run locally on personal computers. this allows for offline access and greater data privacy as users are not sending data to the cloud for analysis. numerous llms are available for download for free from big names like meta and google. to run llms locally users need sufficient ram with a minimum of 8 gb recommended though 16 gb or more is ideal. a dedicated gpu with ample vram is also beneficial particularly for windows users with nvidia gpus. software options to run llms include lm studio bionic vllm llamacpp ollama and gpt4all. users can select llms from online repositories like hugging face which offers over 3 million models.