<titledata-rh="true">Podman AI Lab | Podman Desktop</title><metadata-rh="true"name="viewport"content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><metadata-rh="true"name="twitter:card"content="summary_large_image"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:image"content="https://podman-desktop.io/img/banner_podman-desktop.png"><metadata-rh="true"name="twitter:image"content="https://podman-desktop.io/img/banner_podman-desktop.png"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:url"content="https://podman-desktop.io/docs/ai-lab"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:locale"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docusaurus_locale"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:language"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docusaurus_version"content="current"><metadata-rh="true"name="docusaurus_tag"content="docs-default-current"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:version"content="current"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:docusaurus_tag"content="docs-default-current"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:title"content="Podman AI Lab | Podman Desktop"><metadata-rh="true"name="description"content="Podman AI Lab is an open source extension for Podman Desktop to work with LLMs."><metadata-rh="true"property="og:description"content="Podman AI Lab is an open source extension for Podman Desktop to work with LLMs."><metadata-rh="true"name="keywords"content="podman desktop,podman,containers,ai,llm,generative ai"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="icon"href="/img/favicon.ico"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="canonical"href="https://podman-desktop.io/docs/ai-lab"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://podman-desktop.io/docs/ai-lab"hreflang="en"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://podman-desktop.io/docs/ai-lab"hreflang="x-default"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="preconnect"href="https://MR01ANKQ9S-dsn.algolia.net"crossorigin="anonymous"><linkrel="alternate"type="application/rss+xml"href="/blog/rss.xml"title="Podman Desktop RSS Feed">
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<p>Podman AI Lab is the easiest way to work with Large Language Models (LLMs) on your local developer workstation. Find a catalog of recipes, leverage a curated list of open source models, experiment and compare the models. Get ahead of the curve and take your development to new heights wth Podman AI Lab!
There are many ways to run models locally. This extension fits perfectly into your local container workflow and exposes LLMs through inference APIs that you can directly access from your application containers. Beyond that you can use playgrounds to optimze your inference parameters and recipes that help you with ready made examples.</p>
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