Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

There's always a local model that can replace your AI subscription ...

What if you could harness the power of innovative AI without relying on cloud services or paying hefty subscription fees? Imagine running a large language model (LLM) directly on your own computer, no ...

Tom Fenton explains how local AI fits into the broader private AI discussion for VMware environments, distinguishing enterprise-scale private AI deployments from smaller local AI setups running on ...

The upgrade I almost made wouldn't have solved much ...

It’s safe to say that AI is permeating all aspects of computing. From deep integration into smartphones to CoPilot in your favorite apps — and, of course, the obvious giant in the room, ChatGPT.

What if you could build a fully functional AI app in just 10 minutes—without paying a single cent in cloud fees? Imagine running innovative large language models (LLMs) directly on your own computer, ...

Many users are concerned about what happens to their data when using cloud-based AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Deepseek. While some subscriptions claim to prevent the provider from using ...

I was wondering what people are using to run LLMs locally on their Mac? I know of a couple of applications, but none have impressed me. Sidekick - I've found it to be quite buggy, but its early days, ...

Claude AI from Anthropic has been defining how AI advances for real use cases. Claude Code, an AI-coding and programming partner from Anthropic, is a great tool for writing code and fixing bugs. You ...

From IDE plugins to external chatbots and running LLMs locally, these new and emerging tools are bringing the generative AI revolution to R. My previous article focused on some of the best tools for ...