-: [Maximilian Schwarzmuller] So with help of Ollama,
we got a model up and running and we can chat with it.
As I explained in the previous lecture,
we don't get a graphical user interface with Ollama.
If you want one LM Studio is the better idea.
Or alternatively,
you could explore options like Open WebUI.
Open WebUI is a tool you can install
and run on your system,
and you'll find installation instructions
on their GitHub page.
It helps if you got some programming experience
or some experience with using Docker though,
because that's one of the main ways
of running this tool on your system.
It's not really a tool that's meant to be used by users
that don't have any development experience.
I do recommend LM Studio if you want a hassle-free way
of running open models locally without having to deal
with Docker or advanced setup steps.
But if you do have that programming knowledge,
you could explore installing and running Open WebUI
because what you'll get is a browser-based AI chatbot
that's running on your system though,
not on some remote server that can connect
to proprietary models like the open AI models.
You will need to pay for the usage of that though.
But that can also connect to locally running models,
for example, to models that are running through Ollama,
like here, where I connected
to that locally running Gemma 3 model, which is running
through Ollama, which I started a couple of minutes ago,
and with which I could now chat here
in this beautiful web-based chat user interface.
So that would give me a graphical user interface
running on my system to chat with that model
that's also running on my system with help of Ollama.
Using that is totally optional though,
and not the focus of this section.
Since if you want a graphical user interface to work
and interact with locally running open models,
I recommend using LM Studio.
I just wanted to mention Open WebUI as a great alternative.