Ollama

Run open models locally, offline.

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This course has 3 lessons. Start with the first one and use the next / previous links at the bottom of each lesson — the sidebar keeps the whole course in order.

Lessons

  1. Running models locallyInstall Ollama, pull a model, and understand why local inference is a different trade-off rather than a free replacement.
  2. Calling Ollama from codeThe HTTP API, streaming responses, embeddings, and a small wrapper you can reuse across a project.
  3. Choosing and evaluating modelsHow to pick a local model by task rather than by leaderboard, and how to test it against your own data.

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