Installing Ollama to Customize My Own LLM

Ollama is the easiest tool to get started running LLMs on your own hardware. In my first video, I explore how to use Ollama to download popular models like Phi and Mistral, chat with them directly in the terminal, use the API to respond to HTTP requests, and finally customize our own model based on Phi to be more fun to talk to.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - What is Ollama?
00:41 - Installation
00:53 - Using Ollama CLI
02:06 - Chatting with Phi
02:41 - Ollama API
04:36 - Inspecting Phi's Modelfile
06:27 - Creating our own modelfile
07:34 - Creating the model
08:25 - Running our new model
08:48 - Closing words

[proterotype]

God, every once in a while you stumble across the perfect YouTube channel for what you want. This is that channel. Props to you for making difficult things seem easy

[hashmetric]

Perfect. Thank you. Great format. Don’t change a thing. Please don’t become another channel that exists only to tell us “this changes everything, ” anything about earning any amount of dollars as a YouTuber, or about using GPT to create mass amounts of crap that will also make us money or a channel that tells us about a new model or paper every day. We don’t need any more of that. Congrats on the first video. More please.

[rs]

Its helpful videos like this that make an instant subscribe and a plunge down the rabbit hole of your content an immediate no-brainer.

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Thanks for providing quality content & for not skipping over the details.

[AIVisionaryLab]

Keep it up, brother! I love the way you teach with live demos
It's really effective and easy to understand

[fontende]

Algorithm lifts you up in my recommendation waves, congratulation.

[ChrisBrogan]

Really grateful for this. I just downloaded ollama 20 minutes ago, and your 9 minutes has made me a lot smarter. I haven't touched a command line in about a decade.

[RetiredVet]

In 9 minutes, you gave the best introduction to ollama I have seen. The other videos I have watched were helpful, but you show features such as inspecting and creating models in a short, clearly understood way, that not only tells me how to use ollama, but is also useful info about LLM's I never knew.
I am retired and looking into AI for fun. In the 60s, my science fair project was a neural network. My father, an engineer, was fascinated with AI and introduced me to the concept. Unfortunately, Marvin Minsky and Seymore Papert wrote Perceptrons and the field slowed down, and I moved on.
You have a gift for explaining technical concepts. I've enjoyed all three of the current ones and look forward to the next.

[vpd]

Thank you for not wasting my time 🙏🏼 I feel I've gotten so much value per minute spent watching this than a lot of those other popular channels that started out the same but degraded in content quality and initial principals as time went by.

[elcio-dalosto]

Just commenting to rise up the engagement of your channel. What a great content in a so short video. Thank you! I'm playing with ollama and loving it.

[aimademerich]

Wow you are the only person i have seen cover anything remotely close to this, how to actually use ollama besides downloading models the obvious concept, but you actually open the hood, thank you!!

[BradSearleCP]

Good format and style! Very clear. Looking forward to deeper dives!

[sebastianarias]

Great educational content! The simplicity of your process and your explanation makes your channel stand out. Stay true!

[jzouqvw]

This is so clean Great idea and very nice presentation. Funny thing is that my friend and I were talking creating this a week ago. Lol .

[bernard]

Thank you. I enjoyed your tutorial - well presented and paced and helpful content. Liked and subscribed and looking forward to seeing more.

[brunogaliati]

very cool and simplistic tutorial. Keep making videos!

[JaySeeSix]

Logical, clean, appropriately thorough, and not annoying like so many others. A+. Thank you. Subscribed :)

[grahaml]

Great job on your first video. Very clear and succinct.

[TheColdharbour]

Super!! Total beginner here & Really enjoyed following this and it all worked because of your careful explanation! Looking forward to working through the next ones!

[MrOktony]

Probably one of the best beginners tutorial out there!

[jimlynch]

Very good for your first! I don't have a gpu so I keep trying various things to see if I can find something I can use . This has helped, thanks.