I Built a Tiny Tool to Red-Team My Local LLM's Guardrails: Here's What It Found

by Joytitus — I run models locally with Ollama. It’s great — private, free, fast enough. But the moment you wire a local model into anything that reads…

Medium·2h ago

Cursor Pro ($20/Month) vs. VS Code + Ollama ($0): A 30-Day Financial and Efficiency Audit

by Chhinsoportrakhou — Can a free, local AI coding setup replace a premium cloud code editor? Compare subscription costs, autocomplete speed, debugging, and…

Medium·1d ago

Ollama adds Phonon speech on Macs, with different licences for model variants

OpenTools·1d ago

Ollama बनाम LM Studio: कौन सा चुनें | TECH RWT AI

दोनों अपने कंप्यूटर पर AI मॉडल चलाते हैं। फ़र्क रास्ते का है: Ollama का आधिकारिक पन्ना टर्मिनल और API से शुरू होता है, जबकि LM Studio में… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Tech Rawat AI·2d ago

The cause of the benchmark not finishing was 'wait' — The pitfall of waiting for parallel requests in the same shell as 'ollama serve &'

A script that sends multiple requests to Ollama simultaneously to measure throughput kept stopping without outputting a single line of results, no matter how many times I ran it. Initially, I ...

note·3d ago

How to Add Guardrails to a Local LLM Agent

by Shuai Guo — A hands-on guide with Gemma 4, Ollama, and the OpenAI Agents SDK The post How to Add Guardrails to a Local LLM Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Towards Data Science·3d ago

Ollama: From Running Local LLMs to Engineering Reliable AI Systems

by Everton Gomede, PhD — Abstract

Stackademic·10h ago

I Built an AI That Catches Invoice Fraud for Free — No Cloud, No OpenAI, Just Python

by Kunal Rastogi — How I automated what my CA brother does manually — using LangGraph, Ollama, and zero paid APIs

Medium·1d ago

Ollama Can Now Talk. Check the Licence Before You Ship It

Ollama v0.40.11 brings local text-to-speech via Phonon and d3 decision models. The non-English voices are licensed non-commercially.

How2Shout·1d ago

What Are LLM Parameters? Understanding 7B Models, RAM, Quantization, and Ollama

by Rajes Reddy — You do not need to be an AI researcher to understand what makes a language model large, why it needs memory, or how to run one on your own…

Medium·3d ago

How to run local LLMs with Ollama and plug them into your coding agent

Ollama runs open models such as Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi and gpt-oss on your own machine, with a CLI, a local REST API and official… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Deduped·3d ago

The Engineer’s Guide to Self-Hosting LLMs with Ollama

Transitioning from external AI APIs to a self-hosted inference server is a major step in securing data sovereignty and stabilizing… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · gtzhost·4d ago

What if the very thing that makes us special is something the universe will never miss?

by Douglas Cerutti — It was three in the morning when I typed a simple command into the dark terminal of my computer: ollama run gemma4:26b.

Medium·20h ago

Ollama for Mac gains support for local text-to-speech models

9to5Mac·1d ago

Build a Local RAG Application with Ollama, Qdrant, and Python

A step-by-step guide to turning documents into searchable evidence and generating answers with a local language model. Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · soberdataengineer·2d ago

I stopped uploading private documents to AI, this free app handles them on my PC

Ollama lets me summarize and analyze sensitive documents on my own PC without sending them to the cloud.

How-To Geek on MSN·3d ago

Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional...

XDA Developers·3d ago

How To Install And Use DeepSeek R-1 In Your Local PC (Windows, Mac, and Linux)

Learn how to install DeepSeek R1 locally on your PC with Ollama, pick the right model size for your RAM and GPU, and run it offline in… Continue reading on Activated Thinker »

Medium · Md Nabil Hossain | BBA·4d ago