Holiday Rewind: Your Laptop Can Run AI Now? Small Language Models (SLMs) 101
Early Adoptr31 Des 2025

Holiday Rewind: Your Laptop Can Run AI Now? Small Language Models (SLMs) 101

We’re off for the holidays, so this is a re-release + stitched double-episode focused on Small Language Models (SLMs) and how to actually use them.

Kyle and Jess get hands-on with SLMs, showing you how to set up a private, local AI that runs on your laptop, and why that can be a smarter move than relying on cloud models for everything. If one episode is the “why” (specialist vs. generalist, cost, privacy), the other is the “how” (LM Studio walkthrough, using your documents locally, and real business workflows you can copy today).


Whether you’re tired of hitting Claude rate limits, worried about privacy, or just want an AI assistant that doesn’t charge per query, this stitched re-release gives you a practical roadmap to going local.


What You’ll Learn
  • How to set up LM Studio and download your first small language model in ~15 minutes
  • Why local AI can be faster, cheaper, and more reliable than cloud-based tools
  • The privacy advantages of keeping sensitive business data off external servers
  • Real-world SLM use cases: customer support, internal knowledge bases, content creation, email/sentiment analysis, and onboarding
  • The trade-offs: where SLMs struggle and when you should still reach for an LLM
  • Pitfalls to watch for: testing, edge cases, hallucinations, guardrails, and launching responsibly
  • Quick wins you can try today to build your own “AI intern” that lives on your laptop


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