This morning, I went live to discuss three things you should know before you set up a local AI model on your own machine:
Where the model came from.
What your hardware allows.
And a concept called quantization that decides whether the model runs smoothly on your machine or slows everything down.
Watch the recording above.
Every step-by-step build I’ve published over the last two months lives in one place, from your first local AI agent on a laptop to wiring one into your team’s data. The n8n local tutorial alone gets you a private AI on your machine in about thirty minutes, no cloud, no API keys.
Get them here: https://www.thedataletter.com/p/build-ai-tools-you-control
Tomorrow’s article on The Data Letter is a build that takes the three questions from this morning’s live, applies them to your machine, and walks you through setting up a local model you can connect to the work you already do every day.
After the Fable 5 fiasco, it’s time to take ownership of your own stack seriously.
