WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.450 --> 00:00:02.760 So finally at this point, 2 00:00:02.760 --> 00:00:05.790 we have a good understanding of what open models are, 3 00:00:05.790 --> 00:00:07.440 why you might wanna use them, 4 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.000 where you can find them, 5 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.460 on Hugging Face, for example, 6 00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:14.880 and whether you can run them on your system or not. 7 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.410 Therefore, now finally, 8 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:19.410 it's time to dive into the first application, 9 00:00:19.410 --> 00:00:23.700 the first major tool we'll focus on in this course 10 00:00:23.700 --> 00:00:25.950 that does allow you to download 11 00:00:25.950 --> 00:00:28.710 and run these models on your system. 12 00:00:28.710 --> 00:00:31.050 And we'll start with LM Studio, 13 00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:34.260 because LM Studio is an amazing application 14 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:35.340 that gives you a great, 15 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:38.190 very user-friendly user interface 16 00:00:38.190 --> 00:00:41.160 that makes running and working with open models 17 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:43.980 locally on your system a breeze. 18 00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:45.510 Therefore, in this section, 19 00:00:45.510 --> 00:00:47.280 we'll take a look at how you can install 20 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.560 and then also use LM Studio. 21 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.080 We'll take a look at its core features. 22 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:55.440 We'll also dive into advanced configuration options 23 00:00:55.440 --> 00:00:58.080 provided by LM Studio 24 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:01.317 because despite it being quite approachable 25 00:01:01.317 --> 00:01:03.570 and having a great user interface, 26 00:01:03.570 --> 00:01:08.209 it does indeed allow you to configure how models are loaded 27 00:01:08.209 --> 00:01:12.240 and how you are working with these models in depth. 28 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:13.380 And therefore, of course, 29 00:01:13.380 --> 00:01:16.060 we'll also take a look at some example use cases 30 00:01:16.060 --> 00:01:18.600 or usage scenarios. 31 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:21.810 We will also explore programmatic usage 32 00:01:21.810 --> 00:01:26.730 because despite LM Studio having this great user interface, 33 00:01:26.730 --> 00:01:31.560 which may be the main way of using LM Studio for many users, 34 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.990 despite having that LM Studio, 35 00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:36.990 indeed also exposes a web server 36 00:01:36.990 --> 00:01:40.020 that allows you to easily interact 37 00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:43.920 with those loaded large language models programmatically 38 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:48.150 so that you could build your own internal applications, 39 00:01:48.150 --> 00:01:51.360 AI agents, AI automations, whatever, 40 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:55.980 and use these locally running open large language models 41 00:01:55.980 --> 00:01:58.740 in those AI-powered applications. 42 00:01:58.740 --> 00:02:01.863 So we will also explore how you could do that.