# Local Models Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Local Models run powerful AI (LLMs, image generators) directly on your hardware, securing data and eliminating cloud dependency.

Local Models shift AI inference from cloud servers to your personal device (Mac, Windows, Linux), ensuring complete data privacy: your sensitive information never leaves the machine. This architecture allows for full control, offline operation, and significant long-term cost savings by eliminating pay-as-you-go cloud fees. Tools like Ollama and LM Studio simplify deployment, letting developers and users run models such as Llama 3 8B, Mistral, or Mixtral directly on consumer-grade hardware, often leveraging quantization techniques (e.g., GGUF) for efficiency. This is a critical move for finance, healthcare, and any operation demanding strict data sovereignty and customizable, low-latency performance.

- Official technology site: https://ollama.ai/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [AI Coding with repository context](https://london.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_mJJgD012OXc)

The world of AI assisted coding is moving at a blazing fast speed. There are numerous products and models which excel at various different aspects of the coding experience. We will go from copilot based code generation, to using AI to convert your prompt to edits in the codebase and possible ideas to fine-tune on a codebase and make LLMs understand a new codebase. The rise of open source models has also made it possible for anyone to run their own local copilot, these models can be coached to fit your own usecase quite easily when prompted and fine-tuned for your usecase.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers London - January Meetup — 2024-01-30 — London
- Public talk page: https://london.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_mJJgD012OXc

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- [Codebase](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/codebase) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/codebase.md)) — 2 public demos
- [Fine-tuning](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/fine-tuning) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/fine-tuning.md)) — 20 public demos
- [GitHub Copilot](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/github-copilot) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/github-copilot.md)) — 20 public demos
- [Open source models](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/open-source-models) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/open-source-models.md)) — 7 public demos