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I Turned a $10 USB Drive Into a Portable, Offline AI Assistant — Here's How You Can Too

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No cloud, no subscription, no internet required — how to run a quantized LLM entirely from a USB drive using llamafile. If you've ever wanted your own private AI assistant — one that runs entirely on your machine, never sends a single token to a third-party server, and works on a plane with no wifi…

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  1. 2026-08-24 08:34 · DEV Community — AI
    I Turned a $10 USB Drive Into a Portable, Offline AI Assistant — Here's How You Can Too

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