The most common interactions most of us will have with AI right now is through a cloud-based tool such as ChatGPT or Copilot. Those tools require a connection to the internet to use, but the trade-off there is that they're usable on basically any device.
But not everyone wants to rely on the cloud for their AI use, especially developers. For that, you want the LLM to be running locally on your machine. Which is where Ollama comes in.
