Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

Model and Use Cases

Model Name	Use Cases	Strengths	Notes
Dolphin-mistral	General	Uncensored, use when other models refuse answers	1
Codebooga	Programming	Python and JavaScript	2
CodeGeeX	Programming	Cross language translation, plugins for many IDEs	3
Codeqwen	Programming		4
DolphinMixtral	Programming	Uncensored	5
Deepseek-R1	General	Reasoning
Gemma2	General	2B good for low hardware	6
Gemma3	General, RAG	low hardware/1 GPU, context length, multilingual, multimodal
Llama3	General		7
Medllama2	Medical	Medical questions, trained on open source medical data	8
Meditron	Medical	Medical questions, diagnosis, information
Mistral	General, Programming	7B ok for low hardware	9
Moondream	Vision	Small for edge devices
Nemotron-mini	Role-play, RAG, Function	4b for low hardware	10
Phi3	General, RAG	low hardware, context length
Phi4-mini	General, RAG	low hardware, multilingual, context length
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M	Genreal	long context tasks due to 1 million token context window
Qwen2.5	General	3b for low hardware	11
Qwen2	General, Programming	Chat, Small to Large models	12
StarCoder	Programming	Trained on 80+ languages, Small to large models	13
WizardCoder	Programming		14
Zephyr	Assistant	Trained version of Mistral and Mixtral as help assistant	15

multimodal means the model can do text and image

Model and RAM Recommendations

Model Size	RAM
7B	8 GB
13B	16 GB
33B	32 GB

From Ollama README Guidance ¹⁶

Footnotes and Sources

See also

• Deepseek R1 Locally, Open-Source Ai Tools, ollama, automation, RAG - Deepseek R1 Locally, Open-Source Ai Tools, ollama, automation, RAG

Resources

• Ollama Models Library

Footnotes

1. Local LLMs on Linux with Ollama ↩

2. Coding LLMs Copilot Alternatives ↩

3. Coding LLMs Copilot Alternatives ↩

4. Local LLMs on Linux with Ollama ↩

5. Coding LLMs Copilot Alternatives ↩

6. I Ran 9 Popular LLMs on Raspberry Pi 5; Here’s What I Found ↩

7. Local LLMs on Linux with Ollama ↩

8. 5 easy ways to run an LLM locally ↩

9. Coding LLMs Copilot Alternatives ↩

10. I Ran 9 Popular LLMs on Raspberry Pi 5; Here’s What I Found ↩

11. I Ran 9 Popular LLMs on Raspberry Pi 5; Here’s What I Found ↩

12. Tabby ML Windows Install ↩

13. Tabby ML Windows Install ↩

14. Coding LLMs Copilot Alternatives ↩

15. 5 easy ways to run an LLM locally ↩

16. Ollama README Guidance on models and RAM ↩