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Learn how to run local AI with Ollama and C#. Set up free local LLMs on your own machine with runnable code examples. Start building offline AI apps today. Want to build AI features without paying per API call or shipping your users' data to a cloud provider? Running local AI with Ollama and C# lets you host large language models (LLMs) directly on your own machine — completely free, fully offline, and privacy-first. In this tutorial you'll learn how to run an LLM locally in C#, call it from your .NET applications, stream responses, and build production-ready patterns that scale. Whether you're a beginner searching for "how to run LLM locally" or a senior engineer evaluating self-hosted AI for C#, this guide has runnable code and the reasoning behind every decision. Why Run Local AI with Ollama and C#? For most of the last few years, adding AI to a .NET app meant calling a hosted API. That works, but it comes with three persistent problems: cost (you pa...