Understanding Your First Local AI Stack, Part 1: The Big Picture
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Most local AI tutorials hand you a docker compose up and a shrug. This one starts with the architecture, because once you can name the layers, every tutorial after this becomes readable. The Naming Problem # Spend twenty minutes reading about local AI and you will collect a pile of nouns:
Ollama. Qwen. Llama. Gemma. GGUF. llama.cpp. Open WebUI. LM Studio. vLLM. Hugging Face.