I just got Oobabooga running for the first time with Llama-2, and have Automatic1111, and ComfyUI running for images. I am curious about ML too but I don’t know where this start with that one yet.
For the uninitiated, all of these tools are running offline open source (or mostly) models.
gpt4all has some decent models that I believe are Free. There is a python CLI/library that works with it, and others, called llm