Run Your Own AI - A Practical Guide to Local LLMs on Gaming PCs, Mini PCs, and Old Laptops #1010777

You do not need a data center to run a language model. You need the machine you already own, a little patience, and a clear sense of what fits.

This book is the practical guide to local AI for people with real hardware. Through seventeen chapters you install your first model, choose the right size for your RAM and VRAM, understand quantization without the maths, build a retrieval loop over your own documents, wire up a web UI the whole household can use, and set up remote access without leaving a single port open to the internet.

Along the way you learn the traps that send most beginners back to the cloud: chasing benchmarks, ignoring system prompts, pasting sensitive data, and expecting a small model to do a big model's job. Written for anyone who has looked at the electricity bill and the privacy policy and decided there has to be a better way.