Running Your Own AI
Like Duolingo, but for Running Your Own AI. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Going Local and Staying Diligent. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Running Your Own AI
- Local LLMs process data using your computer's own processor
- Commercial LLMs often use prompt data for training or logging
- No data is sent to or received from a cloud server during inference
- Local models keep the entire data lifecycle on your physical hard drive and RAM
- Local LLMs operate independently of internet connectivity
- Identifying the primary privacy advantage of local models
- Modern tools provide a 'one-click' installer experience
- You don't need to write code to start using local LLMs
- Primary privacy advantage of local models
- Local models provide 'intelligence' in air-gapped environments
- Recognizing the tools used to simplify local LLM deployment
- Remote locations without satellite or cell service can still use local AI
- Local LLM speed depends on your computer's RAM and GPU power
- Unlike ChatGPT, paying for a subscription won't make a local model faster
- Identifying use cases for offline intelligence
- Understanding the link between hardware and local LLM performance
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Running Your Own AI the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What often happens to the questions you type into a standard commercial cloud-based AI?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Running Your Own AI takes you
Take control of your data by moving beyond the cloud. Learn how to run powerful AI models locally on your own computer and stay safe while doing it.
- 1
Going Local
- Your First Local Model
- The Hardware Reality
- 2
Staying Diligent
- Protecting Your Data
- Trust but Verify
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Running Your Own AI is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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