Open Source AI FAQ: Definitions, Licenses, Models and Tools
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Plain answers to the questions people ask about open source AI: what counts as open, which licenses allow commercial use, and which tools are open.
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Open Source AI Coding Assistants: OpenCode, Aider, Cline, Continue, Roo Code, Tabby, OpenHands and Goose
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The open source coding assistants that work with local models, how they compare with Claude Code, Copilot and Codex, and how I run OpenCode with Ollama.
The Open Source AI Toolbox: Runtimes, UIs, RAG, Fine-Tuning, Evaluation and Observability
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The open source tools I use and recommend for running, serving, building on, fine-tuning and evaluating open models, with each tool's license stated.
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Ollama for Teams: Local AI Deployment Guide
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Ollama is how most engineers first run an open model: one install, one pull, and a model is answering on your laptop. My Ollama guide covers that single-machine story. This guide is the next chapter:…
How to Run LLMs Inside Your Company Network
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Running an open model on your own laptop takes fifteen minutes; my Ollama guide covers that. Running LLMs for a whole company is a different job: shared hardware, concurrent users, access control, and a service…
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