Free Lesson
Small Models, Big Power: Run AI Agents on Your Laptop
60 min
Sep 29, 2026 6:00 PM
What you'll learn
Choose a model your laptop can handle
Decode parameters, quantization, RAM and GPU needs so you can choose a capable model that runs well on your hardware.
Run a local model with Ollama and LM Studio
Download and chat with an open-weight model locally, and compare Ollama’s command line with LM Studio’s visual workflow.
Connect your model to useful AI harnesses
See how local runtimes power chat apps, coding assistants and agents—and choose a starter stack for your needs.
Why this topic matters
Powerful AI no longer has to live behind a paid cloud API. A new generation of small, open-weight models can run privately on everyday laptops - even with modest RAM or GPU power. But model sizes, quantization and tools like Ollama and LM Studio can feel confusing. This session gives you a practical map of the local-AI stack so you can choose a model, run it yourself and connect it to chat, coding and agent tools without becoming an ML engineer.
