Instructor: In the previous section,
we explored LM Studio,
which is a very user friendly application
with a nice graphical user interface
and lots of features that make running
and using open models locally on your machine a breeze.
In this section here
we'll explore an alternative solution,
a more advanced solution you could say,
that does not come
with a graphical user interface,
but that's instead typically used through the command line
through the terminal.
We'll explore Ollama in this section
and we'll explore how you can install,
and of course, most importantly, use Ollama,
what exactly it is, which features it offers,
and we'll dive into some advanced configuration options
because one of the advantages of Ollama is
that it does give you quite a lot of options
that help you customize these open models,
adjust them for your specific needs,
and that's something we'll explore in detail
in this section as well.
Of course, as always, we'll also explore many examples
and example use cases for using Ollama
with those open models,
and we'll also revisit the idea
of programmatically using open models
that run on your machine, just as we did with LM Studio.
Now in this section we'll explore
how you can programmatically use these
locally running open models with help of Ollama.