Workshop · W08

AI At Home: No Cloud, No Account

  • Wednesday, December 16, 2026 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

North York Central Library · 5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M2N 5N9

Moderator: Ryan Kelln, Innovator in Residence, Applied AI

What if your AI did not need the internet at all?

Watch AI models run entirely on one computer, with no connection and no data leaving the room. We compare a small local model against a much larger cloud model and against plain search: what each gets right, what each costs, and what the privacy trade-off really is. You leave with a decision sheet for your own hardware and an honest look at what open really means for AI.

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