How to run an LLM on your laptop
MIT Technology Review - AI
Jul 17, 2025 17:01
Grace Huckins
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Summary
The article explains how individuals can run open-weight large language models (LLMs) locally on their laptops using downloadable models stored on a USB stick, as demonstrated by Simon Willison. This approach empowers users with greater control and privacy, highlighting a shift toward more accessible and decentralized AI tools outside of major tech platforms.
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It’s a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs—models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in principle, be downloaded and run…