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How to Run Ollama: Install, Models, and API in 30 Minutes

How to run Ollama locally: install Ollama and run LLMs on your machine

If you want to know how to run Ollama on your own machine, this guide gets you there in about 30 minutes: install, your first model, chat in the terminal, custom models with Modelfiles, and calling the API from Python. No API keys, no usage bills, no sending your code to someone else’s servers. Ollama … Read more