What's the best open source AI you can download for free and use locally? (Don’t want to input my info into third-party servers.)

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Probably DeepSeek R1, but you'd need some very good local hardware. Otherwise, one of the Llama models.

thanks -- I downloaded Ollama for an old Mac, and it’s not very good.

Distilled Deepseek R1’s are really good for reasoning. I have found Gemma 2 27B to be great for general purpose. Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B seems to be the best option for coding

Thanks!

Venice AI ?

Deepseek R1 locally

You might want to look at trymaple.ai.

It's not local, but its privacy friendly, which I'm guessing might be your root concern.