Inference at the Edge: Running a Large Language Model Chatbot on Consumer Hardware
Large language models can now run entirely on consumer laptops, with no cloud connection required. We explore how hobbyists and open-source developers are deploying instruction-tuned, locally optimized LLMs on standard hardware and what that means for privacy, cost, and accessibility. The practical tradeoffs between model size and response quality are what make this shift more consequential than it first appears.
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