Session abstract
What if your AI never needed an API key, a cloud account, or an internet connection?

Every AI app you have used sends your data to someone else's server. Every token costs money. Every request needs internet. For a lot of use cases that is completely unnecessary. Gemma runs on your laptop. It runs in your browser. Your data never leaves your machine and your bill is zero.

In this session you learn three ways to run AI without the cloud. First, Ollama on your laptop with Gemma. You pull the model, run it locally, and build an app on top of it that works offline. Second, Chrome built-in AI with Gemini Nano running directly in the browser. No server, no API, the model lives in the browser tab and you build a web app that uses it. You see what tasks each setup handles well, where the quality drops compared to a full cloud model, and when local is genuinely the better choice. You leave knowing when to use which setup, what the quality tradeoffs are, and with working code for both that you can run on your own machine today.