Local LLM Lab
Frontier AI is rented from a handful of unscrupulous corporations running unsustainable datacenters. Meanwhile, a capable large language model (LLM) can run from a file that lives in your documents folder: offline, irrevocable, unmetered. Local LLMs have advanced considerably in the past year.
This hands-on lab session is about running open-weight language models on laptops. We'll get models running via 👋 Jan, probe their behaviors, and discuss what it means. What do you give up, and gain, by owning your tools? How are these tools enabling? How are they still problematic?
Workshop Offerings:
- ITP Camp
- DeepMay '26