Deploy Your Own Local LLM on Low VRAM in 30 Minutes — A Private Chat Assistant in Jupyter
Run a capable large language model entirely on your own machine — private, offline, and with as little as 8 GB of GPU memory. This hands-on guide sets up a clean Python environment, gets CUDA working even on the newest NVIDIA Blackwell cards, loads a 4-bit quantized model from Hugging Face, and builds an interactive chat widget with conversation memory and a live VRAM gauge in JupyterLab. No cloud, no API keys, no data leaving your computer.
