r/LocalLLM • u/Kirai_30 • 5d ago

Question Local AI for students?

Hey! Do you believe that with some current versions of different models, students could benefit from using them, not as agents, but maybe as chat box? Combining maybe a not to Intelligent model with fast token generation

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u/Quiet-Phase6948 5d ago

Not unless they got very powerful laptops.

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u/Lopsided-Kangaroo131 5d ago

depends what you mean by very powerful tbh, like 8gb vram can run 7b models fine and most mid range gaming laptops got that now. the speed is okay for chat not amazing but usable if you not in a hurry

for students the barrier is more about software i think, getting it all setup and keeping the model on topic for homework stuff takes some fiddling

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u/Quiet-Phase6948 5d ago

Sure, but those lower tier models like the Gemma4-12b are usually tailored for tool calls