Ollama

Ollama's tool for running large language models locally on consumer hardware exploded from obscurity to 85,000 GitHub stars in 2025, enabling developers and enthusiasts to run Llama 3.1, Mistral, Gemma, and Phi-3 models entirely offline on their laptops. Its Docker-like CLI (ollama run llama3) democratized local AI inference and sparked a privacy-first AI movement among technical users.