🏠 Your First Local AI Lab
Understanding the Core Components of a Local AI Setup 🖥️
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Your Lab, Your Rules 🤔 Welcome to the most exciting part of your journey: building your own private AI lab. In the last section, we explored the powerful “why” behind AI sovereignty. Now, we begin the practical “how.” Setting up a local AI environment may sound complex, but it’s really about understanding just three...
Choosing Your Hardware: A Buyer’s Guide for Every Budget 💰
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Investing in Your Sovereign Future 🤔 Choosing your hardware is the most important decision you will make on your Local AI journey. This is not an “expense” in the traditional sense; it is a one-time investment in your own digital sovereignty, productivity, and creative freedom. This hardware is the physical foundation upon which your...
The Software Stack: A Step-by-Step Installation Guide 💿
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Your Command Center for Local AI 🤔 You’ve learned about the power of Local AI and chosen the hardware that will serve as your engine. Now, it’s time to install the “command center”—the software that will allow you to manage and interact with your AI models. This software stack acts as your cockpit, giving...
Downloading Your First Open-Source Model 🧠
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Choosing the “Brains” for Your Lab 🤔 You’ve done the hard work: you’ve chosen your hardware and installed your software command center. Now for the most exciting part: choosing the “brains” for your new AI lab. The AI models are the personalities, the specialists, and the creative partners you’ll be working with. Unlike cloud-based...
A Guide to Model Sizes: What Do 7B, 13B, and 70B Really Mean? 📏
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Decoding the Numbers 🤔 As you browse the world of open-source AI, you’ll see models described with numbers like 7B, 13B, 34B, or 70B. This isn’t just jargon; it’s the single most important indicator of a model’s scale, capability, and hardware requirements. Understanding what these numbers mean is the final piece of the puzzle...