Why you NEED to be running local AI models (FULL beginners guide)

I'm about to show you the future of AI,

AI agents, and Open Claw. Over the past

2 months, I've spent over $50,000 to

use, test, and learn about local AI

models. What I learned, I think, can

dramatically change your life and save

you tons of money, even if you're on a

cheap computer. You don't need to buy

Mac Studios like me. In this video, I

will cover everything local AI models.

I'll cover what computers you need, what

local AI models even are, which models

you can run, what use cases you can do

today, and how this lets you use Open

Claw completely for free. I'll also show

you a glimpse of the future that I am

100% confident is what's going to

happen. By the end of this video, you'll

be a local AI master, and you'll be

running your own local super

intelligence on your computer. So, let's

lock in and get into it. So, this might

be my most important video yet. I'm so

excited to take you through what I've

learned over last couple months. Even if

you have no idea what local AI models

are, you're going to get so much out of

this video. So, let's start off with why

local AI is so important and why you

need to be using it. This is what you're

probably doing today. If you're on

ChatGPT or Claude or using any of the AI

frontier models that everyone knows

about, you're using a cloud model. That

means you're using AI that are running

on these big servers that might be

underground or one day in space because

of Elon or might be on an island. But,

because you're using these models that

are running on these servers, that means

a lot of different things. One, it's ex-

pensive. You're paying for every token

you use. Every time you send a prompt to

these servers, it's doing a bunch of

calculations, and they're charging you

for each one of those calculations.

These are where these massive API bills

are coming from. These are where the

$200 month subscription plans are coming

from and all your API usage. It's very

expensive to be running AI models on

these billions of dollars of chips. It

also has many other downsides, zero

control. A lot of people complain all

the time they feel like their AI models

are getting stupider. In reality, they

probably are. These AI companies are

constantly dialing the knobs and

changing things to try to save money.

You have zero control over the AI models

running on these servers. You have zero

privacy. Every message you send to

ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini or any AI

model you're using on the cloud, those

employees can read those logs. Nothing

you say is private and secure. Every

question you ask about your health or

maybe if you're a sicko and you have

your own AI girlfriend, they can read

all of those messages you're sending.

It's also laggy. You need to be

connected to the internet. If you don't

have great internet, it can take a while

to get your prompt sent there and sent

back. So, there's a high latency. And on

top of that, it's just not scalable. A

lot of people been learning this lately

with open claw. Maybe you connected to

Opus 46 API, you send a bunch of

prompts, you look at your API bill and

whoops, you spent a thousand dollars

over the last day cuz you sent a bunch

of prompts. It's not scalable at all.

And if you want super intelligence

working for you 24/7, it's going to cost

you millions of dollars. But, with all

that being said, you do get one benefit,

which is you get frontier AI. You're

getting the best AI models, they're

running on these servers, and you're

getting the best performance. That is

probably what you're used to today. But,

where I strongly, strongly believe the

future is going and what I actually

believe you will be doing in the next 12

months is you will be using local AI

models. What are local AI models? These

are AI models instead of all these

complex multiplication equations

happening on servers across the world,

they're happening locally on the Mac

mini on your desk or the Mac Studio or

the old dusty Lenovo laptop, whatever

you're using, the models run locally.

And that has a tremendous amount of

benefits. First of all, it's completely

free, right? You're not paying for

tokens. It is just the cost of the

electricity going into the computer you

have plugged into the wall. It's fully

customizable. If If you want to take a

local model and make it sound like you,

or make it rap like Kendrick Lamar, you

can do that. They are fully

customizable. It's also fully secure and

private, so every message you're sending

to your local AI running on your

computer on your desk stays on your

computer. It does not go to the

internet. Nobody can read your prompts

or your messages back and forth. If you

want to get freaky deaky and make your

own AI boyfriend or girlfriend, you can

do that and no one will read those

messages. Not that I would know anything

about that. But also, zero latency.

There is no messages going to the

internet. It's all staying on your

device, so you literally can unplug this

from the internet and the AI would still

work. You can be on an airplane, vibe

coding to your heart's content, and it

doesn't matter because there's no

internet. It's all local on your

computer. And here's the best part.

Here's why I'm bought in, and here's why

I think everyone will be using local AI

in the next 12 months. Because it's

local, because it's free, it is

extremely scalable, which means you can

have AI doing work for you 24/7 365. I

have right now, and I'm going to demo

this later in the video, so make sure to

stick around for this. I have right now

four local AI models doing things for me

continuously, going on the internet and

scraping websites, writing me content,

writing me newsletters, writing code for

me, just doing things at all times of

the day. It's like I have multiple

employees working for me. This is an

advantage I have over all of my

competition because they are not running

local AI models. And if you do the

things I'm about to show you in this

video, you will have the same crazy

advantage over everyone else in the

marketplace as well. That's why it's

super critical to stick here till the

end. Now, the one downside, what's the

one downside of all of this? Local

models aren't quite as smart as the

frontier models. I'd say they're about 6

months behind at all times. So, so 6

months ago was like Opus 4.5, Sonnet

4.5, around that realm. The local models

are about there. Now, if you think back

to 6 months ago when Opus 4.5 came out,

it absolutely blew people's minds. So,

we're still we're at that point when it

comes to local models. So, it's still

really, really strong. So, that brings

us to our next point, which is what

computers do you need? Do you need to

run out and buy $50,000 worth of Mac

Studios and DGX Sparks like me? Well,

the answer to that is no. You can

literally run local models on any

computer you have. So, if you have an

old crappy laptop in your closet from

like college or something, you can take

that out and run local models. If you

have the new $600 Mac Mini that everyone

was running out and buying a few months

ago, you can run local models on that.

That was a very good purchase. Now, are

the models you're running on these

cheaper, smaller machines going to be

Opus 4.5 level? Well, no, but there's

still use cases you can run. You can

still do things like memory management

for your open claw. Having a very small

local model deciding which memories get

loaded into context for your open claw

or your AI agent or whatever is still a

really powerful use case that you can

run on your $600 Mac Mini. And I'll go

through the exact models you should be

downloading for each device in a second.

But, even if you have these old dusty