Ollama Has a Free Local LLM Runner — Run AI Models on Your Laptop

Ollama is a local LLM runner — download and run open-source AI models on your machine with one command. What You Get for Free One command — ollama run llama3 downloads and runs Many models — Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, CodeLlama, and more OpenAI-compatible API — drop-in replacement for GPT API calls Custom models — create Modelfiles with custom system prompts GPU support — NVIDIA, AMD, Apple Silicon acceleration Embedding models — run embedding models locally Multi-model — run multiple models simultaneously Offline — works without internet after download Quick Start # Install curl -fsSL https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh # Run a model ollama run llama3 # Start chatting immediately # Use as API (OpenAI-compatible) curl http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions \ -d '{"model":"llama3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}' # Use with OpenAI Python SDK from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:11434/v1", api_key="unused") response = client.chat.compl