Description:

Take AI off the cloud and build complete LLM apps that run entirely on your own machine!

Local LLMs let you run modern AI models on your own hardware, with no API bills, no rate limits, and no data leaving your computer, which is increasingly how serious developers want to build. Through this ebook, you’ll go from your first Ollama install to a complete local AI project, working with text generation, multimodal image inputs, and stateful chatbot patterns in Python – then finishing with a small multimodal cataloger that processes a folder of images on your own machine. These skills give you a foundation to ship private, on-device AI features that stay fully under your control, whether you’re building hobby projects, internal tools, or apps that need to run without an internet connection.

Basic to intermediate familiarity with Python is needed for this course.

You’ll learn how to:

• Install and configure Ollama locally
• Run open-source LLMs on your machine
• Send prompts to Ollama from Python
• Work with multimodal vision models
• Build a stateful local chatbot
• Process image folders into structured data

… and more!