GGUF Quantization: Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, Q6_K or Q8_0 — How to Choose Without Wrecking Quality
The practical guide to picking your GGUF quant in 2026: bits per weight, perplexity impact, imatrix, and a VRAM/quality table. A Llama 3.1 8B drops from 32 GB in F32 to 4.9 GB in Q4_K_M.
Local RAG with Ollama: an assistant that reads YOUR documents, 100% offline
Build a privacy-first RAG assistant on your own documents: embeddings, vector DB, chunking and a local LLM. With qwen3-embedding hitting 70.58 on multilingual MTEB, local finally rivals commercial APIs.
Local LLM Runtimes in 2026: llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, TGI, Which One to Pick?
An honest comparison of local LLM inference engines in 2026: vLLM hits ~793 tok/s under concurrent load versus ~41 for Ollama, yet at a single user the gap drops below 10%. When to use each.