Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...

When it comes to deploying local LLMs, many people may think that spending more money will deliver more performance, but it's far from reality.  That's ...

I've been paying $20 monthly for Perplexity AI Pro for nearly a year now. It felt justified considering I get real-time web search, cited sources, and a polished web interface, which makes research ...

While I enjoy tinkering with Home Assistant to make my smart devices work, I ensure all of them are manageable locally. While axing most cloud-dependent services, the only thing I miss is voice ...

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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.

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How to implement a local RAG system using LangChain, SQLite-vss, Ollama, and Meta’s Llama 2 large language model. In “Retrieval-augmented generation, step by step,” we walked through a very simple RAG ...