Heidelberg AI Bench

run the whole course on your own machine — one download, no server, no account

Every other track in this course teaches a tool. This one gives you the machine to run them on — yours. The Heidelberg AI Bench is one download and one double-click. It puts automation, document chat, an agent, a model gateway and the model itself on the laptop you already own, already wired to each other, with one switch that decides where the AI comes from: the model on your own disk, one on a lab machine, or an EU-hosted service if you want a bigger brain for an afternoon. Nothing leaves your network unless you choose that. The track starts with what the bench is and how to install it, then walks the dashboard, the provider switch and the app store. After that it teaches each app the easy way — open it from the bench, it already knows your model, do one real thing with it. Every one of those chapters ends with a link to the harder version of itself: the same app on a server you administer. Start here, move there when you need to.