Ollama

Ollama is one of the most popular ways to run open language models directly on your own machine. It works a bit like a package manager for AI: you pull a model by name and run it with a single command, with the model and your data staying entirely on your computer.

For anyone curious to try running a model on their own computer, Ollama is the simplest starting point: no cloud account, no per-message bill, and your prompts never leave the building.