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Ollama & LM Studio
The two runners most people start with — setup, model management and where each wins.
12 articles across guides, comparisons, tools
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GuidesLM Studio Bionic: Local AI Agents That Touch Your Files
LM Studio shipped Bionic, a separate Mac app that turns open models into file-touching agents. What it does, what it can't, and whether it replaces your chat app.
GuidesBuild a Fully Offline Voice Assistant With Home Assistant
The complete faster-whisper, Piper, and Ollama pipeline wired into Home Assistant Assist, with real latency numbers across built-in intents, a GPU tier, and CPU-only Raspberry Pi hardware.
GuidesQwen3.6-27B Local Setup: A 27B Model That Beats a 397B One
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B fits on one RTX 4090 and edges its own 397B-parameter predecessor on coding benchmarks. Our Ollama setup, VRAM notes and first tokens/sec.
Gemma 4 12B: Run Google's New Multimodal Model Locally
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 12B runs text, image, audio and video natively on a 16GB machine. What's confirmed at launch, and the Ollama setup.
GuidesHow to Run Llama Locally: 3 Ways Ranked (2026)
Ollama's one command, LM Studio's GUI, or raw llama.cpp — three ways to run Llama on your own machine, ranked from our daily use, with the VRAM table per model size.
GuidesOllama Complete Guide (2026): Install to Daily Use
Everything we know from running Ollama for real work: install, picking models and quants, the API, context-length tuning, and the mistakes that waste VRAM.
GuidesThe 9 Best Local AI Tools We Actually Run (2026)
We run local AI daily on our own RTX 4080 rig. These are the 9 tools that survived — LLM runtimes, image and video pipelines — plus the 5 we uninstalled and why.
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ComparisonsOllama vs llama.cpp (2026): Which Local LLM Tool Wins?
We run both on our rig. Ollama wraps llama.cpp for one-command ease; llama.cpp trades that away for raw speed and control. When each earns its place.
ComparisonsOllama vs LM Studio (2026): Same-Hardware Verdict
We run both on the same 16GB RTX 4080. Where Ollama's one-command workflow wins, where LM Studio's GUI and offload sliders win, and the setup where we keep both.
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All tools →llama.cpp — Tool Hub: Facts, Setup & Our Verdict
Everything about llama.cpp in one place: what the engine does, GGUF basics, the server flags that matter, and when to drop down from Ollama.
ToolsOllama — Tool Hub: Facts, Best Tutorials & Verdict
Everything about Ollama in one place: what it does best, VRAM realities, its limits, the best video tutorials, and links to our tested guides.
ToolsLM Studio — Tool Hub: Facts, Tutorials & Verdict
Everything about LM Studio in one place: the desktop way to run LLMs locally, its VRAM-fit model browser, limits, best tutorials, and our tested guides.