this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
217 points (90.3% liked)

Technology

70551 readers
4056 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
217
Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally (github.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Angelusz@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Quote: "all running locally, without needing an internet connection once the model is loaded. Experiment with different models, chat, ask questions with images, explore prompts, and more!"

So you can download it and set the device to airplane mode, never go online again - they won't be able to monitor anything, even if there's code for that included.

[โ€“] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

That is exactly what Ollama does too.