Let’s explain What is Ollama and how it works This application with which you can Install Depseek on your computeras well as other artificial intelligence models such as Llama, Phi, Mistral, Qwen, Llava or Gemma. These models will be installed locally so that you do not have to go to any website to use them, and so that everything you do stays on your computer.
We are going to start the article explaining what exactly Ollama is, and everything you need to know about this program. Then, we will tell you how to install it on your computer, and then how to start using it to install an artificial intelligence model and use it.
What is and how Ollama works
Ollama is a program that you can install on any computer, both with Windows operating system and with macOS or GNU/Linux. It is a client of artificial intelligence models, so It is the basis on which then install an AI That you want to use.
Ollama has two peculiarities. The first is that It allows you to use an AI locally. This means that instead of going to the chat page with artificial intelligence of a company, the model is installed on your computer and you use it directly without entering any website.
This favors you in three ways. First because The data of everything you do stay on your PCso that no company uses them. Second because You can use AI No connection to the Internet, and third because you can skip census that has an artificial intelligence model that you are using on a website. Of course, what you can’t is to searches online.
And the second particularity is that It works through your computer terminalor the system symbol in Windows. This does not have to use a separate application. When I install Ollama, then you will have to use the console of your device to install and execute in it the model you want, and the questions and the prompts you write them in the console, where you will also have the answers.
How to install Ollama


To start using Ollama, the first thing you have to do is Install your computer application. For that enters its website Ollama.comand click on the button Download That will appear.


Now, you will go to the page where you have to Choose the operating system for which you want to lower the program. Once you have chosen it, click on the button Download. By default the web will show the system you are using, but you can download the executable of any other.


When you download it, it launches the installation program. Install Ollama is very simple, you just have to click on the next button on the presentation screen, and then click on the button Install On the installation screen.
How to use Ollama


Once you have installed Ollama, launches the application. You will see that nothing happens, this is because you have to open your computer terminalwhich in Windows is called the system symbol. Now, before you start you have to go to the web where you will see All available AI models. The web is Ollama.com/search.


Click on one of the list models To enter your card. Here you will have all the information, and you will also have a selector to choose the different versions available. When you choose a version, above the right you have the necessary command to install it and launch it in Ollama.


Now, you just have to Use the command to launch the model in your terminalsuch as Ollama Run Deepseek-R1: 8b To launch the 8B version of Deepseek R1. The first time you use the command first the model will be installed, but the next ones you will already throw it directly. Remember that to do this at the terminal of your computer you must first have launched the ollama application.


And after writing the command, The AI model will be launched in the terminal. This is to distinguish why you see that in the terminal’s writing field now appears >>>which means that what you write will be sent to the artificial intelligence model.


Now, in your computer’s command line you can Write the prompt you want Throw you to the AI you have chosen, and after a few seconds the answer will begin to generate.
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