Let’s set up AI for your work.

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Plan your AI helpers.

Learn how to give an AI helper a clear job and rules. Work through four lessons at your pace. Each lesson gives you a document to keep. You review the plan before connecting tools or giving access.

Why we exist

The world will not lack AI. It will lack the capacity to use it well.

Founded and supported by global health leaders, technologists, clinicians, and people who care about universal participation, equity, and access to abundant AI — and about translating it into real life.

AI is now abundant and cheap. The capacity to use it well is scarce, and slow to build. That is our work.

“Trust is not given. It emerges over time, when actions are consistent with words.”

Pick your route

Same rules. Different first step.

A dentist and a CFO should not get the same plan. Use the arrows, or click a card — each role has ten uses and what must stay off the model.

This week’s top nine that actually fit a computer.

We re-rank every three days from Hugging Face — by country, and by whether it runs on your machine or needs a private server. Not a store. A field guide.

1. 1

   Gemma 4 26B A4B

   A larger brain that only wakes a few billion parameters at a time. The best local model on a 32 GB Mac this week.

2. 2

   Gemma 4 31B

   Google’s dense 31B. One brain, no mixture. Apache. It needs a 32 GB machine and will not fit a 16 GB laptop.

3. 3

   gpt-oss 20B

   OpenAI’s first open weights since GPT-2. Built to run in 16 GB. Apache license. Very widely downloaded.

FAQ

Downloading a model is not the work.

We know your profile. We point you at the newest model that fits this machine. Then we stay for the workflows — that is the Sherpa.

Is it actually private?

Yes, by design. After the first download, the model runs on your computer. What you type is not sent to us, or to OpenAI, or to Anthropic. There is no server in the middle that could read it.

Is this just another download button?

No. Downloading a model is the first mile. The work is knowing which model fits you this month, how to point it at your job, and how to build the workflows after it is on the disk. That is the Sherpa. A dashboard that only fetches weights leaves you at the trailhead.

How do you pick the newest models?

Every three days we re-read Hugging Face and re-rank the top nine in each list — by country, and by whether it runs on your computer or needs a private server. The Field Guide is that list, in ordinary language. Then we match one to your machine. A dentist on 16 GB does not get the same checkpoint as a CFO on a private GPU box.

What happens after it is installed?

We stay for the part most installers skip: how you use it. Letters, lesson plans, board notes, a local file vault, a first training run on examples you choose. The local guide remains on the machine after we leave. You own the summit.

Why isn’t this free?

The model is open source. The walk is the work. We charge our cost plus 20%. That 20% pays the people who accompany you. We do not take more. Gifts and sponsored seats go to the Summit Fund, a 501(c)(3) in formation — not tax-deductible until it can issue a receipt.

What it costs

Cost plus 20%.

• We provide this at cost plus 20%.
• We waive the 20% for students and teachers (.edu). They pay cost only.

A Camp is about $415 at cost, $498 with the 20%.

Setup status

HT Sherpa is an early preview. You can try local text setup or follow our hosted setup guide. The Mac download is not yet signed, and the full setup still needs testing before it is ready for everyone.