3 Simple Steps to run LLMs on your Laptop

1. Install Ollama:

• Visit?ollama.com?and download the installer for your OS (Mac or Windows).
• Click and start the application you will get a screen below, click install and copy the command.

• Open your command terminal and paste the above command and press enter.

2. Select an LLM:

• Go to Ollama and search for LLM’s and select the one which you would like to play with. I am using deepseek-r1 with 18.1Million pulls so far.

• If you have a powerful machine (RAM, GPU etc) you can download biggest model, as big models will take more resources to run. However, I am going to select the 1.5 billion parameters for this example.
• Copy the run command next to it. Open the terminal and paste the command and press enter.

• You can start asking questions from the command terminal, but it is not quite intuitive.

3. Install Chatbox AI:

• Install ChatBox AI app for your Mac or windows and add it as an application.
• Configure ChatBox AI with Ollama's Api provider.

• Use the selected LLM model for chatting, allowing you to disconnect from the internet while interacting (your data stays within your laptop!) also with chatboxai you can ask questions uploading pdf.

All applications mentioned are opensource and free to use.