Using local AI: private AI assistance with Ollama & open-source models

Foundation · Course
Using local AI: private AI assistance with Ollama & open-source models
You learn how local AI works with Ollama and open-source models, how data flows differ from cloud services, and how to classify confidential documents realistically without making false security promises.
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✓ Fundamentals & understanding: classifying local AI re…✓ Applying in practice: running a local test setup with…✓ Confident & safe: private document assistant as pract…
📦 3 modules
📚 60 lessons
🏆 Certificate at 60%
🇨🇭 German
Didactically built, not just filled – from 15 years of teaching practice.

What you will learn

  • ✓ You explain the difference between local AI and cloud AI using concrete data flows.
  • ✓ You describe the role Ollama plays in running and managing local language models.
  • ✓ You classify open-source models such as Llama, Mistral, Gemma or Phi realistically according to usefulness, licensing and quality questions.
  • ✓ You estimate hardware requirements for simple local AI pilots in a practical way.
  • ✓ You explain context windows, tokens and model limits so that specialists can understand them in everyday work.
  • ✓ You classify documents according to data protection, confidentiality and AI suitability criteria in the Swiss context.
  • ✓ You develop a simple «Can this go into the cloud?» traffic light for team decisions.
  • ✓ You formulate safe usage limits so that local AI is not confused with error-free or automatically data-protection-compliant AI.

Course content

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Fundamentals & understanding: classifying local AI realistically
20 lessons · 5 quiz questions
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Applying in practice: running a local test setup with Ollama
20 lessons · 5 quiz questions
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3
Confident & safe: private document assistant as practical project
20 lessons · 5 quiz questions
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199.00 CHF
One-off payment · certificate included · no subscription
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✓ German · Swiss practice