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Local Inference

Running AI models entirely on your own device

Fundamentals

In plain English

It's like having a really smart friend who lives in your phone and doesn't need to text anyone else to know the answers.

Technically

The process of executing machine learning models directly on consumer hardware without offloading computation to remote cloud servers. This involves loading model weights into local RAM/VRAM and computing matrix multiplications on the local CPU/GPU/NPU.

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Lessons that use it

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