jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (12-minute read)

·2026.07.06 09:00

Key point

It explains the hardware setup and Docker configuration needed to run SOTA LLMs and STT models in a local environment.

Details

This covers hardware configurations for running SOTA (State-of-the-Art) AI models locally, as well as how to run STT (Speech-to-Text). It also provides configuration settings that let you run models immediately within a Docker container.

Hardware performance differs by budget as follows.

$2,000 budget: a configuration capable of running a Qwen model and a high-performance STT is possible
$40,000 budget: a high-spec machine capable of running an Opus-level model can be built

llm qwen hardware docker stt

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