Change recommendations for Local LLMs

en/ai/local-llm.md

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-# Running a local LLM model
+# Running a local Large Language Model (LLM)
 
 Notice:
 
-1. This tutorial is intended for expert users
-2. (Local) LLMs require a lot of computational power
-3. Smaller models (in terms of parameter size) typically respond qualitatively worse than bigger ones, but they are faster, need less memory and might already be sufficient for your use case.
+1. LLMs require a lot of computational power and therefore lots of electricity.
+2. Smaller models typically respond qualitatively worse than bigger ones, but they are faster, need less memory and might already be sufficient for your use case.
+3. The size of a model can be measured in number of parameters in its neural network. The "b" in the model name typically stands for **b**illion parameters. It also can be measured in terms of gigabytes required to load the model into your devices RAM/VRAM.
+4. The model should always completely fit into VRAM (fast), otherwise layers will be offloaded to RAM (slower) and if it doesn't fit in there either, it will use SSD (abysmally slow).
+5. Hardware recommendation for maximize prompt processing and token generation speed: A device with high *bandwidth*. A modern GPU with lots of VRAM will satisfy this requirement best.
+
 
 ## High-level explanation
 
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 The following steps guide you on how to use `ollama` to download and run local LLMs.
 
 1. Install `ollama` from [their website](https://ollama.com/download)
-2. Select a model that you want to run. The `ollama` provides [a large list of models](https://ollama.com/library) to choose from (we recommend trying [`gemma2:2b`](https://ollama.com/library/gemma2:2b), or [`mistral:7b`](https://ollama.com/library/mistral), or [`tinyllama`](https://ollama.com/library/tinyllama))
+2. Select a model that you want to run. The `ollama` provides [a large list of models](https://ollama.com/library) to choose from. Some popular models are for instance [qwen3:30b-a3b](https://ollama.com/library/qwen3), [`granite3.1-moe:3b`](https://ollama.com/library/granite3.1-moe), [`devkit/L1-Qwen-1.5B-Max`](https://ollama.com/devkit/L1-Qwen-1.5B-Max), [`mistral:7b`](https://ollama.com/library/mistral) or [`mistral-small3.1:24b`](https://ollama.com/library/mistral-small3.1).
 3. When you have selected your model, type `ollama pull <MODEL>:<PARAMETERS>` in your terminal. `<MODEL>` refers to the model name like `gemma2` or `mistral`, and `<PARAMETERS>` refers to parameters count like `2b` or `9b`.
 4. `ollama` will download the model for you
 5. After that, you can run ollama serve to start a local web server. This server will accept requests and respond with LLM output. Note: The ollama server may already be running, so do not be alarmed by a cannot bind error. If it is not yet running, use the following command: `ollama run <MODEL>:<PARAMETERS>`