Local LLM
llm
Access large language models from the command-line
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llama.cpp is an open-source local llm project by ggml-org (ggml-org/llama.cpp on GitHub). It has 130,229 GitHub stars and 24,047 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 3 October 2026.
One binary or app gets you a working local model setup.
Pick a size that fits your RAM/VRAM; smaller models run on laptops.
Use the built-in UI, or point OpenAI-compatible clients at it.
Airplane mode works — your prompts never leave the device.
Existing tools plug in by changing one URL.
Ask questions over your PDFs, notes, and codebases.
Pay nothing per token, ever.
Prompts and documents stay on your hardware, always.
RAG, tools, and agents build on the same base.
Smart compression runs big models on modest hardware.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cppEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at ggml-org/llama.cpp with 24,047 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
MIT licensed — use it commercially, no strings attached.
Close on many tasks now; frontier cloud models still lead on hard reasoning.
8B models run on 16GB RAM; bigger models want a real GPU.
A recent 8–32B instruct model is the sweet spot for most machines.
Access large language models from the command-line
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