Local AI Workshop for Beginners: Private ChatGPT Experience on Your Own Computer

Ever feel uncomfortable about sharing too much personal info with ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude but still want AI’s help? Against giving Big Tech your private life on a golden platter running on wasteful resource-sucking data centers? A bit confused about some of the jargon and words used in news articles about the next most powerful AI models coming out? This workshop is for you!

​Earlier this year there was a breakthrough - we can now run AI that are more than capable of being private and even completely offline assistants on personal computers and laptops!

​This is also a workshop for AI beginners who find setting up agents with OpenClaw too intimidating but still want a capable AI experience like ChatGPT that keeps all private information on their own computers - without writing any code or running any terminal/command line commands!

​What we’ll cover:

​Setting up Unsloth Desktop (open source ChatGPT-like interface) and running powerful open source AI models of your choosing on your own computer.

​Learning important concepts about running AI on your own computer - from why open source AI exists to tokens, context, model quantization, MCP tool servers, and more.

​Answering your questions to make sure you’re confident discussing AI model concepts and the major news developments that are shaking the world.

​This is a hands-on workshop - bring your computer and get ready to download and install some AI!

​System Requirements: The more RAM your computer has, the better. It’s now possible to run near-frontier-capable-AI on computers with just 16GB of RAM. That said, even if your computer has less than that (like 8GB), you can run less powerful AI that is still impressive and are welcome to attend!

​To be efficient, we encourage participants to download and install Unsloth Desktop (https://unsloth.ai/docs/desktop) as well as let it automatically download a suitable AI model it selects for you (if any) when first running the app in advance before coming to the event. During the event, you’ll learn how to find even better AI models to add to your Unsloth Desktop setup.