Llama for Windows, the Windows counterpart to the macOS Llama app, is a free, open-source Windows 11 application built on Microsoft's WinUI 3 that lives in the system notification area and opens its control panel from a taskbar icon. It connects directly to the Hugging Face model hub, shows a curated model list with parameter counts, disk usage and vision support, and downloads GGUF-quantized models driven by the llama.cpp ecosystem, all without admin rights, manual compilation or complex launch parameters. The app offers an Alt+Space floating chat window, a built-in web UI for loading and unloading local models, and can start an OpenAI-compatible local server at localhost:9931 that scripts and AI agents can call, with multiple apps able to share one model file. According to the project, prompts and inference stay on the device and no telemetry, analytics events or installation identifiers are collected, though network access is still needed to fetch models and updates; it supports Windows 11 x64 and ARM64 plus NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, and does not list Windows 10 as supported.

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