Running machine learning models locally has some obvious attractions. Your prompts and data remain on your own machine, there are no API charges, and you’re not dependent on a remote service remaining available. The downside is that setting up separate tools for image generation, large language models, speech recognition and text-to-speech can involve a fair amount of work.
Local AI Studio takes a different approach. It brings several types of local AI together in a single browser-based interface, with the aim of keeping configuration to a minimum.